Evaluation tasks for assessing the cybersecurity capabilities of frontier AI models, built to order for the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by Tharros Defense (delivery order, labor-hours pricing, 1 Sep 2025 to 15 Oct 2026)
$813,679.52 obligated (ceiling with options $2,095,337.60) per delivery order (obligated to date)
Dated 26 Aug 2025Source checked 26 Oct 2026Basis: stated
In the source's own words
“"description":"OU00-25-NEW-055 DEVELOPMENT OF EVALUATION TASKS FOR ASSESSING CYBERSECURITY CAPABILITIES OF FRONTIER MODELS" ... "total_obligation":813679.52 ... "base_and_all_options":2095337.6”
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What it is about
- Tharros Defense, Inc.
- NIST Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)
- Datasets, tasks and environments
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- $752K per contractDatasets, tasks and environments, made to order, per contract