Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2023)
Recipient: RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Awarding agency: Department of Defense / Defense Contract Management Agency
Funding agency: Department of Defense / Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Period of performance: 2017-04-06 to 2021-04-06
Current total value of award: $6979728
Description: DISPERSED COMPUTING (DCOMP) PROGRAM: RAYTHEON BBN DCOMP TA1 - ALGORITHMS FOR DISPERSED MISSION-AWARE COMPUTATION BASE AWARD.  RAYTHEON'S MISSION-ORIENTED ADAPTIVE PLACEMENT OF TASK AND DATA (MAP) EFFORT IS TO RESEARCH, DEVELOP, DEMONSTRATE AND EVALUATE A DISTRIBUTED, MULTI-LAYER DECISION MAKING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. THE MAP DISTRIBUTED DECISION MAKING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO ADAPTIVELY PLACE TASKS AND DATA INTO THE IN-NETWORK NCPS (THE DISPERSED RESOURCES POSITED BY THE BAA) FOR A CLASS OF DATA-CENTRIC COMPUTING APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING ONES THAT HAVE STRICT TIMING REQUIREMENTS BUT SUFFER FROM THE DEPENDENCY ON BACKHAUL TO DATACENTERS.  THE MAP AGENTS AND THE RLGS WILL BE DEVELOPED INCREMENTALLY, WITH PERIODIC EVALUATION AND DEMONSTRATIONS TO DEMONSTRATE PROGRESS.