On November 14, the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) posted information about an upcoming Hardware Enabled AI Acceleration Assessment Event. Responses are due by 5:00 p.m. Eastern on December 9.
SOFWERX, in collaboration with USSOCOM J24 Intelligence Data Science Team (IDST), will host an Assessment Event (AE) to determine the best solution to upgrade a remote location with high-performance Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) servers to support large language model (LLM) workloads for up to 100+ concurrent users. The system will be fully turnkey, including all GPUs, memory, storage, networking, cooling, and power infrastructure, ready for immediate operation. This configuration ensures fast, reliable Artificial Intelligence (AI) performance today and scalability for future growth.
The U.S. Government’s data science portfolio is rapidly expanding its reliance on largescale AI workloads, especially LLMs and highspeed inference pipelines. To sustain this growth and to maintain a strategic edge, the program requires cutting-edge GPU acceleration, capable of delivering the throughput and memory bandwidth needed for state-of-the-art training, finetuning, and deployment. Advanced GPUs will provide a high-performance, energy efficient, and future ready foundation for advanced AI workloads, while ensuring low response times, reliability, and room for future growth.
USSOCOM seeks to enter into non-FAR or FAR-based agreements with Industry, Academic, and National Lab partners whose solutions are favorably evaluated by USSOCOM J24 IDST Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). As such, the follow-on Assessment Event (AE) is considered competitive, and solutions will be evaluated independently of one another primarily for technical merit. This serves dually as notification of the intent to research the feasibility of an agreement under 10 U.S. Code, Section 4022 and/or Section 4022(f), and as notice of pre-solicitation activities IAW FAR 5.204.
Interested respondents who could potentially provide solutions that meet the needs of USSOCOM are encouraged to submit their capability for USSOCOM review.
Review the USSOCOM AI event information.
Source: SAM
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