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USAspending.gov award record (official API), NIST delivery order 1333ND25FNB100145 to Tharros Defense, Inc.

2 records were read from this source, dated 26 Aug 2025 to 13 Mar 2026.

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Last checked 26 Oct 2026

What was read from it

Records read from this source
Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
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)	Price observation	$813,679.52 obligated (ceiling with options $2,095,337.60) per delivery order (obligated…	26 Aug 2025
The cheapest public evidence of what a vendor charges per task sits in the appendix of the buyer's own paper	Negotiation lever	No environment vendor publishes a price, and no public procurement notice states a count…	13 Mar 2026

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)
Kind
Price observation
As stated
$813,679.52 obligated (ceiling with options $2,095,337.60) per delivery order (obligated…
Dated
26 Aug 2025
The cheapest public evidence of what a vendor charges per task sits in the appendix of the buyer's own paper
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
No environment vendor publishes a price, and no public procurement notice states a count…
Dated
13 Mar 2026

Figures it feeds

$752K per contractDatasets, tasks and environments, made to order, per contract

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