Award notice
Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Nautilus for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Development (R&D)
W911QX26CA003
Department of the Army, W6QK ACC-APG Adelphi. Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology).
Awarded
$115,531,241.57 on the award notice, May 28, 2026, contract W911QX26CA003
Description
As published on SAM.gov.
For Research and Development (R&D) services leveraging a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) under the Topic of "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), Managing Massive Data Sets". The work intends to experimentally implement and robustly test innovative solutions to the Government's unique problem of needing robust scalable infrastructure to support the next generation Department of War (DoW) operations.
The contract, on USAspending
Federal procurement data the awarding office reported to FPDS, matched to this solicitation by its number.
- Recipient
- Ecs Federal, LLC
- UEI
- XYB4JU4PA6T4
- CAGE
- 1T1E5
- Vendor location
- Fairfax, VA
- Contract
- W911QX26CA003, definitive contract
- Obligated
- $5,981,000.00, current value $37,570,081, potential $115,531,242
- Actions
- 1 between May 28, 2026 and May 28, 2026
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition, 999 offers received
- Set-aside reported
- No Set Aside Used.
- Described as
- Broad Agency Announcement Nautilus Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
- Match
- award number W911QX26CA003 equals the contract number; same awarding office W911QX (high confidence)
- Record
- USAspending award page
Publications
Every notice SAM.gov issued under this solicitation number, oldest first. Each is a separate record on SAM.
June 1, 2026
Award notice
Awarded to ECS Federal, LLC Fairfax for $115,531,242. SAM.gov, notice 2d178abf795741e695cd54b335e68140
Points of contact
- Laurice Bocaolaurice.l.bocao.civ@army.mil
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