Sri International was awarded a $11.7 million definitive contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a hardware accelerator for fully homomorphic encrypted data under the Data Protection in Virtual Environments program. The prime contractor will work with five major subcontractors - the University of Maryland, College Park, Linaro Limited, the University of Michigan, Granite Mountain Technologies, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - to build block designs, a full chip design, and implementation over 42 months in West Menlo Park, California. The broad agency announcement solicitation sought proposals for reducing the computation run time of encrypted data to within one order of magnitude of unencrypted data through three evaluation phases without a set-aside designation. If successful, this work aims to advance the Defense Department's goals of securely processing classified data through virtualization.
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