CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS, INC.
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
15/19
AI / ML Relevance
7/9
Problem Framing
4/5
Awardee Quality
4/5
Award
$1,759,983
Award amount
—
Award date
FA462524C0009
PIID
Awardee
29
Total awards
$72,287,627
Total $ won
11.1/19
Avg AI score
Description
DEMONSTRATE A ROBOTIC SWARM PLATFORM TO AUTONOMOUSLY ACCOMPLISH AIRFIELD REPAIR CURRENTLY PERFORMED BY PERSONNEL. THIS INCLUDES ASSESSMENT, UXO IDENTIFICATION AND REMOVAL, SPALL AND CRATER REPAIR, PAINT STRIPING, AND AIRFIELD LIGHTING.
Score Rationale
Charles River Analytics is a known AI research firm with genuine autonomy/robotics expertise, elevating awardee credibility above typical integrators. The core deliverable—robotic swarm coordination for airfield repair—inherently requires autonomous decision-making, path planning, and multi-agent coordination (AI/ML techniques), scoring the contract as AI-primary rather than AI-as-feature. Problem framing is operationally grounded (airfield repair under contested conditions, UXO hazard reduction) but lacks explicit success metrics or warfighter pain point articulation beyond task substitution.