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Universities Developing Speech Recognition for the Air Force Research Laboratory

The Air Force has tapped two universities to develop speech recognition technologies. One of the awards goes to the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California, for $17,079,713, while the other award goes to Columbia University in New York, for $14,884,945. Both of the universities will perform research in developing and integrating agile and robust automatic speech recognition, machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, and summarization technologies into functional end-to-end systems. Work at USC and Columbia will be performed in Marina del Rey, California, and New York, respectivley, and should be completed August 22, 2021. The award is the result of a competitive acquisition and nine offers were received. Fiscal year 2016 research and development funds in the amount of $3,020,000 and $2,570,000 are being obligated at time of award for USC and Columbia, respectively Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-17-C-9116; FA8650-17-C-9117).