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Awards/COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT (B)

$48,908,501

Department of Defense·Department of the Army

to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK

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WORK BEGAN2023-02-17·LATEST ACTION·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_W911NF2320040_097
Award description

NEW COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT TITLED: DATA DRIVEN ENGINEERING RESEARCH (DATADRIVER)

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: medium
In plain English

Five-year Army cooperative agreement with University of Maryland funding data-driven engineering research, valued at $48.9 million.

Sub-sectors
engineering-researchdata-driven-systemsacademic-partnership
Why this matters

Multi-year Army investment in data-driven engineering signals strategic focus on AI and autonomy; program ongoing since 2023.

U.S.–China competition angle

Data-driven engineering and AI systems are strategic U.S.-China competition areas; Army research likely addresses military technology advancement.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-10. Cost: $0.025204.

Period of performance
Start
2023-02-17
End
2028-02-16
Status
activein 596 days
Sources

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