About $1.68M to Four Points Technology — the fisheries arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration procuring artificial intelligence and agentic AI (a number beginning 13, the Commerce line)

1A body governing fisheries buying AI

The NMFS opening the description denotes the arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration responsible for fisheries: estimating stock, setting catch limits, managing species requiring protection.

It is a field requiring inference about wide areas of ocean from limited observation. Survey voyages and sampling cost time and money, and the points obtained are few against the size of the sea. Demand for tools that assist estimation arises readily. The record does not say what the AI is for.

2Agentic is named alongside

The description sets artificial intelligence and agentic AI side by side. Agentic is used for systems that do not merely answer an instruction but assemble steps toward a goal and proceed while using tools.

Naming both reads as covering existing use of AI and the form that advances steps autonomously. In administrative practice, being able to follow how a judgment was reached carries weight, so how far autonomy is raised becomes an institutional decision. The record does not touch that line.

3A contract number beginning 13

Across the 222 federal spending records this site holds as of 2026-09-01, all 155 beginning with a letter were awarded by the Department of Defense and all 67 beginning with a digit outside it. This contract falls in the second group, and nine carry the Commerce prefix 13.

Records beginning 13 also include those of the body responsible for standards. The leading digits name the department while what follows separates the subordinate bodies. Being able to read the scheme lets the line be identified without consulting the awarding field. The period runs 364 days.