DARPA-SN-16-63 Fourandsix Sole Source Notice

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Contracts Management Office (CMO) on behalf of the Information Innovation Office (I2O), intends to award a sole source contract in the amount of approximately $500,000 to Fourandsix Technologies, Inc. (Fourandsix) for the Media Forensics (MediFor) program. DARPA intends to contract with Fourandsix for delivery, with unlimited rights, to the U.S. Government their Izitru forensic technology including source code, data, and license to the patent "Photo Forensics Using Image Signatures (US9031329)".

DARPA anticipates the period of performance will start in October 2016 and end in June 2020. Izitru will provide a set of six image forensics indicators as well as automated reasoning to determine if an image is unmodified. Additionally, Izitru includes an extensive metadata signature database encompassing most commercial imaging devices and the capability to automatically update the signature database given access to data from new devices. Through commercialization, Fourandsix's forensic technology has been robustly developed and tested using millions of images of known provenance and engineered to scale to large collections through their Application Program Interface (API) service.

Additionally, Fourandsix will provide integration and maintenance services as required during the MediFor program. All work performed by Fourandsix will occur in San Jose, California and Hanover, New Hampshire.