The Missile Defense Agency Awards Contract to C3 AI for Modeling and Simulation
September 13 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Initial application for generating threat
hypersonic trajectories through generative modeling
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Production Other
Transaction (OT) Agreement to C3 AI (NYSE:AI) of Redwood City,
California to aid in enterprise AI development initiatives across
the agency. C3 AI was previously competitively selected for award
of a Prototype OT to demonstrate the C3 AI Suite’s ability to
develop a Generative Modeling Application for hypersonic missile
trajectories. The Production OT is a standalone follow-on to a
Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Prototype OT. It builds upon the
success of previous prototype efforts centered on applying AI to
digital engineering initiatives such as the design of experiments,
scenario simulation, and generative modeling.
The Production OT represents a significant step towards
accelerating vital modeling and simulation initiatives that
integrate both data-driven AI-based and physics-driven validation
methodologies. The C3 AI Generative Modeling Application enables
the MDA to create, in minutes, tens of thousands of
physically-realistic AI-generated trajectories as evaluated across
multiple physics-based constraints as well as the ability to
rapidly generate large missile trajectory datasets, when given only
a small set of training data and physics rules, and provides MDA up
to a 100-fold increase in model generation capacity and speed. The
implementation of the C3 AI Generative Modeling Application to
accelerate hypersonic trajectory modeling in a classified MDA lab
is an example of numerous digital engineering initiatives designed
to develop solutions in highly complex environments.
“C3 AI is on the cutting edge of enterprise AI and we are
excited to partner with the Missile Defense Agency,” said Ed Abbo,
President and CTO, C3 AI. "By using the C3 AI Suite and the C3 AI
Generative Modeling application, Missile Defense Agency personnel
can rapidly generate large datasets in data-starved environments
for a broad spectrum of missile defense technology
initiatives."
By leveraging C3 AI Suite as a common enterprise AI application
development environment across teams, MDA can greatly accelerate
the creation, deployment, system integration, and life cycle
management of missile defense systems for which machine learning is
an integral part. These enterprise AI capabilities are critical as
MDA and other RDT&E (Research, Development, Test, and
Evaluation Agencies) and Intelligence Agencies move increasingly
towards large scale development of more advanced AI
capabilities.
About C3.ai, Inc.
C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE:AI) is the Enterprise AI application software
company that accelerates digital transformation for organizations
globally. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products: C3
AI® Suite, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and
operating large-scale AI applications; C3 AI Applications, a
portfolio of industry-specific SaaS AI applications; C3 AI CRM, a
suite of industry-specific CRM applications designed for AI and
machine learning; and C3 AI Ex Machina, a no-code AI solution to
apply data science to everyday business problems. The core of the
C3 AI offering is an open, model-driven AI architecture that
dramatically simplifies data science and application development.
Learn more at: www.c3.ai
About Missile Defense Agency
The mission of the Missile Defense Agency is to develop and
deploy a layered Missile Defense System to defend the United
States, its deployed forces, allies and friends from missile
attacks in all phases of flight.
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