Aptima, Inc., a trailblazer in leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to enhance mission readiness, has received a Phase II Option Period award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for ADAPT (Adaptive Distributed Allocation of Probabilistic Tasks). This Option award brings the total contract award to date to $1.799 Million.

Addressing the Challenges of Modern Military Operations

ADAPT is an innovative program to develop a new generation of AI and (software) agents designed to work alongside, learn from, and interact with human teams, helping automate, plan, and execute missions for the dynamic speed and uncertainty of modern military operations missions.

As adversaries become more adept and capable, the future success of military teams operating in fast-changing battlespaces will depend on accelerating the observation-to-action loop. AI will be critical in assisting commanders with tactical and strategic decision making, however, current AI and agents are limited in their reasoning and integration with human teams, reducing effectiveness in planning and action cycles.

Under the ADAPT Option extension, Aptima and partner Arizona State University (ASU) are continuing to design, build, and validate collaborative, adaptive, and realistic AI agents. These innovations will advance the state of human-machine teams by not only improving communications and cooperation between human and artificial agents, but by using AI to help commanders process streams of real-time data to structure teams, and to create and adapt action plans as mission conditions change.

Collaboration with DARPA Programs to Advance Human-AI Integration

ADAPT is closely tied to two ongoing DARPA AI programs: Agile Teams (A-Teams), for which Aptima is the prime contractor, and Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST), where Aptima is priming the evaluation effort. ADAPT is extending Aptima’s work in A-Teams in solving the challenge of distributed decision making in changing environments, and how human-machine teams dynamically allocate tasks, abilities, and workloads across a blended operation of human, autonomous, and networked systems. For ASIST, ADAPT’s resulting AI and agents will be tested in human-in-the-loop experiments in the ASIST testbed, which uses a Minecraft-based urban search-and-rescue synthetic task environment (USAR-STE) recently developed by Aptima and ASU.

To learn more about ADAPT, see DARPA Awards Contract to Aptima & ASU for Realistic, Collaborative Agents for Human-AI Teaming.

Aptima’s Artificial Intelligence Technologies

ADAPT is a member of Aptima’s Artificial Intelligence Technologies (AIT) portfolio of solutions that harnesses the power of cutting-edge AI/ML methods to address the increasingly complex challenges of the future of work. By combining adaptable processes and optimizing resources in the face of uncertainty, AIT endeavors to enhance operational efficiency and human performance. Leveraging generative AI, machine learning, and predictive algorithms, AIT offers solutions in areas such as multi-modal fusion and analytics, adaptive planning, and recommendation systems, all developed with a focus on robustness and modularity for seamless integration into end-user applications.

Aptima welcomes the adoption or merging of your technology with one or more of our SBIR Topics. We are eligible for SBIR Enhancement funding, as well as TACFI and STRATFI awards, all of which are sole source.

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