DCS has secured a $95 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Multi-Domain Sensing Autonomy Division to provide analytical tools for the Assessment of Sensing-Autonomy Sensor Exploitation Technologies, or ASSET, program.
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What Is the Scope of the ASSET Contract?
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.
“We are proud to be selected to continue our highly specialized support to AFRL. We are looking forward to building upon the enhanced capabilities and efforts of the MEAMS contract with our partners at AFRL/RYAA,” commented Jim Benbow, chairman and CEO of DCS.
How Does ASSET Relate to the MEAMS Contract?
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. The effort involves developing analytical tools to support research, development, testing and evaluation activities supporting the Sensors Directorate’s Sensing and Effects Analysis Branch.
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.
