The Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $13,421,786 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract to Punch Cyber Corp, doing business as Punch Cyber Analytics Group, for the Signature Management Using Operational Knowledge and Environments (SMOKE) program. The SMOKE program aims to develop signature management technologies that generate evasive cyber infrastructure, quantify attribution risk in real-time, and maintain evasiveness after infrastructure changes in order to accelerate cyber operations and eliminate signatures as a source of attribution. This contract has a performance period through September 29, 2026. Punch Cyber Corp, a small business cyber consulting firm, has been awarded multiple contracts from DARPA and other federal agencies for cybersecurity research and development, security operations support, and advanced analytics.
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