DoD CDAO: ~$34.6M to scale data and AI and run incident response — a federal contract with ByteCubed (USAspending)
A contract to support the Department of Defense's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) in scaling data, analytics and AI and running incident response (IR) teams. Awarded via the Army to ByteCubed, LLC, valued at about $34.6M ($34,571,375). Foundational support for data-driven decision making.
Contract key facts
- RecipientBYTECUBED, LLC
- Contract value$34,571,375 (≈$34.6M)
- Awarding agencyDepartment of Defense
- Awarding sub-agencyDepartment of the Army
- Award typeDELIVERY ORDER
- Period of performance2025-06-03 〜 2027-06-02
- Contract ID (PIID)W519TC25F0241
Contract scope (original)
12MONTH BASE PERIOD 12MONTH OP. EST ACCELERATING DATA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE(ADA)INCIDENT RESPONSE(IR)TEAMS SUPPORT DATA DRIVEN DECISION MAKING TO SCALE DATA, ANALYTICS, AND AI AT THE CHIEF DIGITAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) OFFICE (CDAO)
Key points
- Support for DoD's CDAO (Chief Digital and AI Office) to scale data/AI and run incident response
- Helps scale data, analytics and AI department-wide for data-driven decision making
- Value ~$34.6M, 12-month base + 12-month option (June 2025–June 2026)
- The CDAO was established in 2022 to integrate DoD data/AI efforts
- Recipient: ByteCubed, LLC (awarded via the Army)
- What is supplied is specialist teams for scaling and running AI department-wide, not the adoption itself.
1What the CDAO was set up to do
The CDAO (Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office) was established in 2022 to lead and integrate the Department of Defense's data, analytics and AI efforts, and is central to AI adoption across the department.
This contract provides specialist teams — "Accelerating Data and Artificial Intelligence (ADA)" and "Incident Response (IR)" teams — to "scale" data and AI department-wide and advance data-driven decision making at the CDAO.
2Funding the scaling, not just adoption
3Introducing it, and keeping it spreading
What this contract procures is not the adoption of AI. It is the work that follows adoption.
The CDAO was established in 2022 to oversee data, analytics and AI across the Department of Defense. This contract supplies specialist teams — accelerating data and AI (ADA), and incident response (IR) — to scale data and AI department-wide and advance data-driven decision-making. Individual technical detail does not appear in the source.
Why it matters
Budget is moving toward spreading and sustaining AI across an organization, not just initial adoption. Support for the DoD's AI hub, the CDAO, is a concrete example of government AI implementation shifting from point pilots to enterprise scale.
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Sources (primary)
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- USAspending (award details)
- Contract ID (PIID)：W519TC25F0241