Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER)

The subject effort meets the criteria for a cost-reimbursement contract type as set forth in FAR 16.306(b)(i). The effort involves significant research uncertainties, which preclude estimating costs with sufficient accuracy to use any firm-fixed-price contract. The services to be performed are for non-commercial research in advanced (beyond the current state of the art) technology. Limited or no historical data exist on which to base a level-of-effort estimate. CMO Procedure 20-01 dated January 15, 2020, approves the use of cost reimbursement-type contracts for all DARPA R&D contracts (in lieu of executing a separate memo for each new contract) if the contractor has an adequate accounting system. CMO Procedure 20-01 includes the blanket memorandum signed by the Director of CMO (Head of the