First award under newly raised $450 million contract
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — June 2, 2025 — C3 AI (NYSE: AI), the Enterprise AI application software company, today announced that it will fulfill a $13 million task order for the United States Air Force (USAF) Rapid Sustainment Office (RSO) to expand the deployment of its AI-enabled predictive maintenance system across additional aircraft platforms and sensor-based algorithms.
The new task order is the first to be fulfilled under the $450 million Production-Other Transaction Agreement recently awarded to C3 AI.
“Enterprise AI is critical to modernizing military preparedness, and its impact is exponential when fully scaled, helping ensure mission-critical assets across defense networks remain ready for deployment at any time,” said Thomas M. Siebel, Chairman and CEO, C3 AI. “We’re proud to build on the success of PANDA and continue supporting the Air Force.”
PANDA, co-developed by C3 AI and the U.S. Air Force, is a secure, integrated, and customized application and toolkit for near-real-time analytics and data fusion that reduces lifecycle costs through improved readiness and fleet availability. The work under the new task order will scale the USAF’s predictive maintenance implementation on PANDA, an application powered by the C3 Agentic AI Platform and the C3 AI Readiness application.