DCS secures $95M contract from Air Force Research Laboratory for ASSET program

The contract tasks DCS with developing tools that evaluate and predict mission-level outcomes using sensor performance data derived from testing, modeling and simulation across multiple domains. Quote: "The ASSET contract tasks DCS with developing tools that evaluate and predict mission-level outcomes using sensor performance data derived from testing, modeling and simulation across multiple domains." The initiative seeks to advance understanding of multi-domain autonomous sensing operations that integrate diverse information sources to enable rapid, actionable decisions across strike, electronic warfare, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission sets. Quote: "The initiative seeks to advance understanding of multi-domain autonomous sensing operations that integrate diverse information sources to enable rapid, actionable decisions across strike, electronic warfare, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission sets." The ASSET deal serves as a follow-on to the 5-year, $48.4 million Mission Effects Analysis of Multi-Domain Sensing, or MEAMS, contract awarded to DCS subsidiary Infoscitex in October 2018. Quote: "The ASSET deal serves as a follow-on to the 5-year, $48.4 million  Mission Effects Analysis of Multi-Domain Sensing, or MEAMS, contract awarded to DCS subsidiary Infoscitex in October 2018." Proposals for the ASSET contract were solicited in May 2025. Quote: "In May 2025, the Sensors Directorate advanced the initiative by soliciting proposals for the ASSET contract through the Autonomous Decisions, Algorithms and Modeling multiple authority announcement."