The same subject, four years apart, to a different firm - AI battle damage assessment (Kitware, $1.5 million)
A U.S. Air Force contract to Kitware obligating $1.5 million. The description denotes artificial intelligence battle damage assessment. A contract on the same subject went to a different firm four years later.
Contract key facts
- RecipientKITWARE INC
- Contract value$1,500,000 (≈$1.5M)
- Awarding agencyDepartment of Defense
- Awarding sub-agencyDepartment of the Air Force
- Award typeDEFINITIVE CONTRACT
- Period of performance2021-03-18 〜 2024-09-18
- Contract ID (PIID)FA875021C1514
Contract scope (original)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BATTLE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT
Key points
- Battle damage assessment determines the effect of an attack or the damage sustained, with speed and consistency the difficulty.
- Of the 222 records this site holds as of 2026-09-02, two touch this subject, with start dates more than four years apart.
- The other is about $1,799,992 to SensorOps starting in 2025, against $1.5 million here starting in 2021.
- With no wording connecting one award to another, public data cannot distinguish a continuation from a separate attempt.
- Neither contract records the data used or the accuracy and speed sought.
- Kitware is widely known for open-source visualisation and image-processing tools and appears on other awards here.
1The judgement called battle damage assessment
Battle damage assessment determines how much effect an attack achieved, or how much damage was sustained. It has been a field where people match images and reports against each other, and where speed and consistency of judgement are the difficulty. Reading a situation from imagery and other data sits close to what machine learning handles well, which is why it recurs as a candidate for support.
2Four years apart, to a different firm
| Contract | Recipient and amount |
|---|---|
| FA875021C1514 (this one) | Kitware, $1.5 million, starting March 2021 |
| FA864925P0488 | SensorOps, about $1,799,992, starting August 2025 |
Among the records this site holds as of 2026-09-02, two touch this subject, with start dates more than four years apart. The same problem going to a different firm after an interval suggests it was not settled in one round, though the record says nothing about the results of the earlier contract. With no wording connecting one award to another, public data alone cannot distinguish a continuation from a separate attempt.
3What is asked when a judgement moves to a machine
Neither contract records what data is used or what accuracy or speed is sought. What can be read is that public money has been directed at the same judgement task more than once. Kitware, the recipient, is widely known for open-source tools in visualisation and image processing and appears on other awards among the records this site holds.
Why it matters
A field where several contracts appear on one problem across an interval suggests it was not settled in one round. From the supply side, checking whether the same subject has been contracted before becomes a premise for proposing. Public data carries no field for that relationship, and whether it appears in a description is a matter of practice, so binding by the wording of the subject and setting the results in time order is the work required.
FAQ
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Sources (primary)
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- USAspending (award details)
- Contract ID (PIID)：FA875021C1514