This contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to prime contractor SRI International, a non-profit research institute, to develop capabilities for "DYNAMICALLY ENCODING & STOCHASTICALLY TRANSMITTING INFORMATION OVER NATION-STATE INFRASTRUCTURES (DESTINI)". No set-aside was used. The potential value of the contract is $6,710,006.00.
Under this contract, SRI International is leading a team that includes the University of Chicago and Princeton University to perform research and development related to cryptographic techniques, communication obfuscation, distributed message protocols, and adversary models. This work supports DARPA's goal of building an anonymous, attack-resilient mobile communication system.
SRI International holds other indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts with DARPA and other agencies like NASA and HHS to provide a range of technical services on an as-needed basis. The University of Chicago and Princeton University have also received DARPA IDIQ awards for complementary research areas.
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