This is a $3,118,316.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Apogee Research LLC, a technology company specializing in defense, cybersecurity, and advanced research solutions. The contract is for "VETTING FIRMWARE FOR MALICE: EXPERIMENTATION AND SYSTEM DEMONSTRATION" and does not have a set-aside designation. Apogee Research LLC is the prime contractor and has previously received awards from DARPA, the Naval...
This is a $4,406,260.11 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Resurgo, LLC, a woman-owned small business. The contract is for the design and development of automation tools to enable all Department of Defense (DoD) organizations, regardless of resource capability, to deploy and maintain complementary machine learning intrusion detection system (IDS) sensors for a full spectrum of cyber attack defense postures. The tools will also allow...
This is a $5,131,664.00 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Aptima Inc., a for-profit small business. The contract, titled "COMPUTER HUMAN ENHANCED COORDINATION FOR KNOWLEDGE, MANAGEMENT, ANALYSIS,&TESTING EXPLOITS", is focused on developing techniques and systems to rapidly discover vulnerabilities in complex software. This contract was awarded under a DARPA solicitation that sought innovative research proposals to...
This is a $940,800.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Riscure, Inc., a global security lab that provides security services and tools. The contract is for the LADS (Leveraging Advancing Devices Securely) Program, which involves conducting research to provide developers of mobile devices, Internet of Things (IoT), and other emerging technologies with insights into practical cybersecurity threats, in order to aid them in developing...
This is a $16,902,748.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Kitware Inc., a small business software company specializing in open-source solutions and advanced technical computing services for federal agencies. The contract is for "Aligned Moral Language Models with Interpretable and Graph-Based Knowledge" and includes an Information Technology Modernization (ITM) Option (Phase II). This contract is not set...
This contract is a $4,279,026 Other Transaction Agreement awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Margin Research LLC, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business located in New York City. The contract is focused on developing methods to detect and counteract cyber-social operations in supply chain ecosystems. There is no set-aside designation for this contract. Margin Research LLC has a portfolio of other federal contracts, including work with the Office of the...
This is a $8,416,302.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded to Galois, Inc., a small business based in Portland, Oregon, by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The contract is for a project titled "DISCOVERING AND EXPLAINING THREATS OF EMERGENT COMPUTATION TO ENABLE TRANSFORMATIONS (DETECT)" and involves research and development to develop tools that can anticipate, isolate, and mitigate unintended programmable behaviors in software throughout the development...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $879,846 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper) to develop and test an exploit of an advanced RISC machines microcontroller designed for high-reliability applications in commercial electronics, commercial space, and potentially military markets. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, was awarded on August 1, 2017 with a completion date of April 2, 2018. Draper is a...
This definitive contract award of $745,368 was made by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Embedded Intelligence Research LLC, doing business as Embedded Intelligence, a for-profit partnership focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and embedded systems research. The contract supports the company's work on improving AI capabilities, including preliminary research on reverse engineering deception techniques and developing methods to train AI systems with limited labeled data....
This is a $3,446,960.96 fixed-price level of effort contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Resurgo, LLC, a woman-owned small business, for EDGE-DIRECTED CYBER TECHNOLOGIES FOR RELIABLE MISSION COMMUNICATION (EDGECT) TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION SUPPORT. The contract has a completion date of September 30, 2018 and does not use a set-aside designation. DARPA is the Department of Defense's research and development agency, focused on advancing emerging...