Rapidfort Inc. was awarded a $749,996 firm fixed price purchase order as a total small business set-aside. This award is under the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II Action to provide tiered cybersecurity container hardening for Platform One and Iron Bank at the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory located in San Francisco, California. Rapidfort will deliver automated container hardening solutions to help the Air Force enhance the security and...
Narf Industries LLC has been awarded a definitive contract valued at $6,380,757 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop tools under the HARDEN Program that can anticipate, isolate, and mitigate unintended programmable behaviors in software throughout the development lifecycle. The goal is to prevent adversaries from exploiting unexpected program execution in integrated systems. Work will be performed in San Diego, California from September 2022 through September 2026 under...
This is a $4,215,736 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Charles River Analytics, Inc., a small business located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The contract is for the development of a "COMPARTMENTALIZATION ARCHITECTURE USING COMMODITY HARDWARE FOR ENFORCEMENT" system, which aims to automatically restructure legacy complex software systems into limited-privilege compartments to prevent cyber attacks from escalating beyond...
This is a $953,832.79 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate to small business Red Balloon Security, Inc. under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The contract is for research and development to implement a novel embedded live-hardening framework and associated algorithms to combine state-of-the-art static firmware vulnerability analysis and mitigation with dynamic defensive techniques powered...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $4,814,144.40 firm-fixed-price contract to Six24 Cyber Labs LLC, a minority-owned, veteran-owned, small disadvantaged business, to develop an artificial intelligence toolkit under the Cyber Agents for Security Testing and Learning Environments (CASTLE) program. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, aims to instantiate realistic network environments and train cyber agents to enable resilient network operations...
This is a definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Systems & Technology Research LLC (STR), a for-profit limited liability company based in Woburn, Massachusetts. The $5,970,931 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is for the "MINIMIZING ATTACK SURFACE THRU CONFIGURATION OPTIMIZATION (MASON)" project, which aims to develop advanced technological solutions to address national security challenges. The contract has two key subcontractors:...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $4,056,678.00 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract to Web Sensing, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The contract is for research and development related to Phase 1 of the Statement of Work (SOW) under DARPA's HARDEN program, which aims to develop practical tools to anticipate, isolate, and mitigate emergent software execution engines throughout the software development lifecycle. This contract...
This is a delivery order awarded by the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM), a defense agency, to Sea Box, Inc., a U.S.-based manufacturer of ISO containers, refrigerated containers, and modular buildings. The $323,100 firm-fixed-price contract is for the purchase of TRICON II CARC containers. This delivery order is part of a broader contract vehicle, though the original solicitation was not provided. The award does not have a set-aside designation. Sea Box, Inc. has a history of...
This is a $6,915,256.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the Riverside Research Institute, a non-profit organization. The contract is for research in accordance with the statement of work for DARPA's HARDEN program, which is focused on developing practical tools to anticipate, isolate, and mitigate emergent behaviors in computing systems throughout the software development lifecycle. The contract has no set-aside designation,...
This federal contract award is for the procurement of Docker software licenses, with a ceiling value of $55,870.00. The contract was awarded to Vertosoft, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company and self-certified HUBZone joint venture based in Leesburg, Virginia. The contract is a delivery order under the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract vehicle. Vertosoft has established itself as a key technology partner for numerous defense and civilian agencies, providing a wide range of...