DoD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC)- Data Readiness Artificial Intelligence (DRAID) Basic Ordering Agreement

Red Pulley  is a Small Business prime contract holder of the DRAID Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) with  DoD JAIC.

JAIC DRAID was established to help the Department prepare data for use in AI applications by providing an easily accessible path to innovative commercial services to meet complex technical challenges.  The goal of the JAIC DRAID program is to ensure access for DOD to AI data preparation tools, capabilities, and services to effectively prepare for and support the full range of AI activities. These efforts include partnering with JAIC and working closely with leaders to identify appropriate uses for AI across the entirety of DOD, develop new capabilities, and deploy scalable solutions.

Period of Performance: 12 March 2022 through 11 March 2027
Contract Ceiling: $241 million

Red Pulley is keenly aware of the potential of emerging technologies across the Department, while understanding the need for responsible and secure solutions that meet the mission in every scenario. This BOA will allow DoD and IC customers to rapidly access our AI solutions in software configuration, cloud integration, data ingest, architectures and technologies for synthetic data and data labelling. Red Pulley will provide AI-based IT services to DoD and other federal agencies around data science, data engineering, data architecture, data quality, cloud integration and alignment, software development, and data anonymization.

The JAIC DRAID is a five-year BOA that will enable the DoD to utilize its data resources for use with Artificial Intelligence (AI). This will help provide an easily accessible path to access cutting-edge services needed to meet the complex technical challenges involved in preparing data for AI. Examples of tasks include but are not limited to Extract Transform Load (ETL) and Data Engineering Development, Database Design and Development, Data Science Development, and Data Analysis. Below are the following Tasks outline in the Performance Work Statement (PWS).

  • Task 1: Project Management and Documentation
  • Task 2: Software Configuration
  • Task 3: Cloud Integration
  • Task 4: Department of Defense AI Ethical Principles
  • Task 5: Data Ingestion, Integration, Architecture, and ETL
  • Task 6: Data Accessibility and APIs
  • Task 7: Enterprise Information and Metadata Management
  • Task 8: Data Quality, Feature Engineering, and NLP
  • Task 9: Synthetic Data
  • Task 10: Data Anonymization
  • Task 11: Data Labelling
  • Task 12: AI Security
  • Task 13: Data Science and AI Outreach and Innovative Development Mechanisms