SBIR/STTR Research Award
MicroSentry: High Assurance Secure Computing Solution with Aberdeen Architecture
Award amount
$249,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- TRUSTED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2024-12-09
- Contract end date
- 2025-06-16
- UEI
- DWYDDUG3N571
- Solicitation number
- 24.4
- Topic code
- A244-045
Research abstract
High-assurance systems require secure computer hardware to ensure the integrity and trustworthiness of the entire computing environment. The Aberdeen Architecture is a metadata-based computer architecture with hardware state machine monitors to enforce stringent security policies and monitor instruction execution at very fine-granularity. Trusted Science and Technology, Inc. (Trusted ST) proposes to develop MicroSentry: High Assurance Secure Computing Solution with Aberdeen Architecture.áThe key innovation of this proposal includes the design and development of: (1)ááá A software RISC-V processor extension with OS Friendly Microprocessor Architecture (OSFA). (2) A hardware state machine (HSM) processor based on Aberdeen Architecture. (3) A software toolchain extension to automatically generate program metadata. (4) An initial evaluation with test benchmarks to validate the MicroSentry framework.á
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Assured, Resilient Containerization and Orchestration Solution (ARCOS)
- Cyber Vulnerability Assessment via Semantic Reasoning and Tiered Visualization (CELESTE)
- Assured Robotics Embedded Systems and Applications in Ground Vehicles (ARSENAL)
- Portable Analytics for Automated Reconstruction and Investigation of Multi-Stage Cyber Attacks (PANORAMA)
- Cyber Vulnerability Assessment via Semantic Reasoning, and Tiered Visualization (CELESTE)
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Research funding history
23 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2019–2025). Reported award amounts total $20,562,970. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security