SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Analysis Training Environment (ACTIVATE)
Award amount
$149,998Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2018-06-25
- Contract end date
- 2019-09-20
- UEI
- YJXQFQ83DQR4
- Solicitation number
- 18.1
- Topic code
- MDA18-001
Research abstract
Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) will design and demonstrate an Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Analysis Training Environment (ACTIVATE) that directly targets the need for advanced cyber network defense training for the MDA. The proposed new enabling capability will support cyber training against an intelligent red team to enhance cyber operator trainee cyber-attack recognition and recovery. ACTIVATE will provide the MDA and defense training community with a novel, adaptive, intelligent, and user-configurable framework for sensitizing and training cyber network defender skills and competencies. This innovation will significantly enhance cyber situational awareness and cyber defender warfighter decision making. Approved for Public Release | 18-MDA-9710 (6 Jul 18)
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- System for Efficient Authoring and Smart Condition Reporting and Intelligent Baseline Evaluation (SEASCRIBE)
- Transport Reinforcement Learning based control System (TROLLS)
- Generative System for Integrated Synthetic Air Defense Scenarios (GenSIS)
- DTRA DTRA234-003 Deep Learning 23.4
- Warfighter AI for Reporting, Detection, and Evaluation for Naval Combat System Readiness (WARDEN)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Analysis Training Environment (ACTIVATE)
- SCYTHE: Simulate CYber Threats using Hybrid Entities
- SCYTHE - Simulate CYber Threats using Hybrid Entities
- TACTS: Tactical Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Training System
- WhizRT: Simulated Intelligent Cybersecurity Red Team
Research funding history
263 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1989–2025). Reported award amounts total $101,235,617. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy