BOSTON - Air Space Intelligence Federal (ASI), a developer of operational artificial intelligence and mission software, has won a five-year, $99 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Army to provide software platforms and support services.
The single-award ASI Apps Enterprise contract, awarded by Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground, provides an enterprise vehicle for the Army to procure ASI software platforms and support services. The contract has a maximum value of $99 million over its five-year ordering period.
The award comes as ASI participates in the Army's Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) effort, which is moving from division-level prototyping toward delivery and scaling across the force. The Army announced initial NGC2 application awards to nine commercial software companies, including ASI Federal, with a collective first-year value of approximately $93.6 million. The applications are being delivered to I Corps.
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The company's software consolidates data from multiple sources into a predictive decision-support application intended to help commanders and staff assess current conditions and anticipate potential conflicts during fires planning and execution.
The Army describes NGC2 as a modular, open-architecture ecosystem spanning data, applications, infrastructure, and transport. Rather than a single monolithic acquisition program, NGC2 is designed for continuous iteration, allowing the Army to integrate and replace technologies as operational requirements and commercial capabilities change.
NGC2 is intended to integrate data and workflows across warfighting functions, including command and control, fires, intelligence, movement and maneuver, sustainment, and protection. The Army established a common NGC2 data-layer baseline in June following operational validations. Anduril is leading the common data baseline, working with Palantir on an edge-to-cloud data mesh and with Raft on data and services registries, data transformation, and data federation.
The Army says it is tailoring NGC2 applications, data, infrastructure, and transport capabilities to individual formations and designing them to support operations in contested and degraded environments. The service has said I Corps headquarters, enablers, and downtrace units are among the next formations scheduled to receive NGC2 capabilities as the Army moves toward continuous delivery.
ASI says its defense software uses predictive modeling and simulation to provide a forward-looking view of the operating environment. The company's broader portfolio includes software for defense, aviation, and other mission-critical industries, including a 12-year, $875 million Federal Aviation Administration contract for air-traffic-management modernization.
