This is a new $1,943,443.48 definitive contract awarded by the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the University of Southern California (USC) for the "SENSS: SDN Security Service" research and development project. The contract is focused on detecting and mitigating a large variety of distributed denial of service attacks on private and government networks. USC is the prime contractor on this non-set-aside contract. The university has a...
This is a $2,644,355.71 definitive cost-no-fee contract awarded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate to the University of Houston System for a research and development project titled "Towards DDOS Resilient Emergency Dispatch Center." The contract has an ultimate completion date of April 15, 2019 and was not set aside for any specific program. The University of Houston System, a state-run Hispanic Serving Institution, will provide research and...
This federal contract award, with ID HR001116C0055, was granted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to George Mason University to investigate innovative approaches for defending against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on computer networks under the Extreme DDOS Defense (XD3) program. The $4,852,103 definitive contract has a period of performance through June 2020 and does not utilize any set-aside designations. Key subcontractors include the Pennsylvania State...
This is a $7,370,999.72 federal contract awarded by the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to the University of Southern California (USC) for the "Defense Technology Experimental Research (DETER) Testbed" project. The contract is a definitive, cost-no-fee contract with a performance period ending on March 31, 2019. As part of this contract, USC has subcontracted with the University of California, Berkeley and Webmama COM Inc. to support the...
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate awarded a $3,000,000.00 definitive, cost-no-fee contract to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for the IODA-NP: MULTI-SOURCE REALTIME DETECTION OF MACROSCOPIC INTERNET CONNECTIVITY DISRUPTION project. This contract, which has no set-aside designation, was awarded on July 25, 2018 with a completion date of January 31, 2022. Under this contract, UCSD will leverage its expertise in cognitive science, computer...
This is a $1,348,360.66 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop new R&D software systems for surveying spoofing susceptibility. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. UCSD, which is a major public research university, will leverage its expertise in areas like cognitive science, computer science, and engineering to deliver the required...
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...
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 federal contract award, valued at $700,410.38, was issued by the Science and Technology Directorate, a civilian agency within the Department of Homeland Security, to the University of Southern California (USC). The contract, titled "DARMS- CREATE", is a delivery order with a cost-no-fee pricing type. It does not have a set-aside designation. USC is a leading private research university that frequently collaborates with government agencies on a wide range of research and...
This federal contract award is for the Resilient Timing Requirement Study for 5G Networks Phase II, awarded by the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Civilian agency. The $500,000.00 firm fixed-price delivery order was awarded to the University of Illinois, doing business as The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a renowned public land-grant research university with extensive capabilities in federal contracting and research. The...