This is a $10,112,515.00 definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Peraton Labs Inc. (doing business as Applied Communication Sciences) for the Extreme DDOS Defense (XD3) program. The contract covers research and development to design and implement dynamic network behavior to deflect distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and increase the computational workload required to execute such attacks. The contract has two base...
This contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Peraton Labs Inc., doing business as Applied Communication Sciences, for the Extreme DDOS Defense (XD3) program. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract without a set-aside designation. The purpose is to research resilient defenses against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on computer networks, specifically addressing the spread of physical or logical locations of cyber resources to...
This $5,802,463.00 definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee federal contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Peraton Labs Inc., doing business as Applied Communication Sciences, to perform research and development on the Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3) program. The XD3 program focuses on developing resilient defenses against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on computer networks. Peraton Labs Inc. is the prime contractor, with the University of Maryland,...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $995,000.00 definitive contract to the University of Southern California (USC) Department of Contracts and Grants Division for the Extreme Distributed Denial of Service Defense (XD3) Program. The contract has a completion date of November 30, 2020 and is a cost-type, no-fee contract. The XD3 Program focuses on innovative research in areas such as artificial intelligence, data science, and cybersecurity. USC, a private university,...
This is a federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Georgetown University, a private non-profit university, to develop "Resilient Anonymous Communication Evading Censors and Repression" with a potential value of $3,617,851. The contract is a definitive contract with a cost-no-fee pricing type, and is set to be completed by September 16, 2023. As a subcontractor, The Tor Project Inc., a non-profit organization, is working on the "Resilient...
This is a $1,548,772.00 cost-no-fee definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC), a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education. The purpose of the "Extreme DDOS Defense (XD3), GTRC Base (Phases I & II)" contract is to investigate innovative approaches that enable advances in science, devices, or systems against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on...
This is a definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Two Six Labs, LLC, doing business as Two Six Technologies, for the EXTREME DDOS DEFENSE (XD3) BASE PHASE 1 & 2 effort under Technical Area 3 (TA3), with a ceiling value of $5,388,182.00. The contract is focused on the reliable detection and point-of-attack mitigation for low-volume Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that hide within ambient traffic. This award is not set aside. Two Six...
This federal contract award, with an ID of HR001116C0019, was made by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to SRI International, a non-profit research and development institute, for the "EDGE-DIRECTED CYBER TECHNOLOGIES FOR RELIABLE MISSION COMMUNICATION (EDGECT) SEEDLING STUDY THE EFFICACY OF ANTAGONISTIC-CONTROL-BASED APPROACH FOR DESIGNING DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE (DDOS) ATTACKS." The $2,656,336.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, awarded on November 13, 2015,...
This is a $10,030,445.84 definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia, doing business as the University of Virginia. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, is for the "P-CORE: Privacy Enhanced Coordinated Enterprise Defense via Temporal and Topological Representation Learning" research project. Under this contract, the University of Virginia will conduct research to develop...
The Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $3,055,051 definitive, cost-no-fee contract to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), a private university and non-profit organization, to conduct research and development on "Scenario-Based Design and Verification of Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems (Cyber Assured Systems Engineering [CASE])." The contract, which has no set-aside designation, was awarded on February 14, 2018 and...
This federal contract, awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is for the Extreme DDOS Defense (XD3) program, which aims to investigate innovative approaches to defend against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on computer networks. The prime contractor is The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia. The contract has a ceiling value of $5,370,626.00 and a completion date of August 31, 2020. It is a definitive contract with a cost-no-fee pricing type. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The Tor Project Inc., a nonprofit organization focused on online privacy and freedom, is a subcontractor on the project, tasked with research and development related to resilient anonymous communication systems.