SBIR/STTR Research Award
Twister: An Anti-Tamper Meta-Protection Approach
Award amount
$69,316Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY INC
- Proposal award date
- 2006-02-10
- Contract end date
- 2006-08-15
- UEI
- U2DYBLL85L56
- Solicitation number
- 2005.2
- Topic code
- A05-150
Research abstract
As warfare becomes more technology bound there is a growing threat of misappropriation of software that could disable or hinder US military activities. Twister provides a theoretically sound mechanism for combining anti-tamper technology in a manner that is resistant to both patching and analysis. This approach makes the individual elimination of applied protections significantly more expensive. Twister leverages a number of other ATC technologies most notably ATC's Tornado, an automatic source-code obfuscator.
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.
- CELDA: Containers with Enhanced isoLation for multi-Domain Applications
- Holistic Inflight Variable Employment Suite (HIVES)
- Foreign Object Retrieval System (FORS)
- Secure and QoS-aware ledger (SQ-ledger)
- SCMART: Serverless Credential with Many-factor Authentication and Recognition Technology
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Dynamically Obfuscating Virtual Execution Engine (DOVE)
- Dynamically Obfuscating Virtual Execution Engine (DOVE)
Research funding history
249 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1994–2025). Reported award amounts total $83,056,609. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, Department of Education