C3.ai, Inc. U.S. Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office Contract Award Increased to $450 Million

Published: 2025-05-29 10:05:40 ET AI

Published on 05/29/2025 at 10:05

C3 AI announced that the United States Air Force (USAF) Rapid Sustainment Office (RSO) has raised the C3 AI contract ceiling to $450 million through October 2029. The additional $350 million in available scope supports the scaling of C3 AI's predictive analytics and aircraft maintenance platform across the service's fleet and systems. Initially C3 AI was awarded a $100 million ceiling, which has been fully utilized to deploy PANDA, a predictive maintenance platform that delivers near-real-time insights by monitoring components on hundreds of aircraft, including the B1-B Lancer, C-5 Galaxy, KC-135 Stratotanker, C-17 Globemaster III, and C-130J Super Hercules. The Predictive Analytics and Decision Assistant (PANDA), powered by the C3 Agentic AI Platform and the C3 AI Readiness application, earned distinction as the U.S. Air Force RSO's system of record for predictive maintenance and Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+).

This highly favored platform supports a Department of Defense-wide initiative to improve fleet availability and reduce lifecycle costs through improved readiness. The collaboration has significantly improved availability, driven down costs, and reduced unscheduled maintenance for hundreds of aircraft across the Air Force enterprise.