SBIR/STTR Research Award
Keycloak Authentication for Enhanced Cybersecurity & Functionality
Award amount
$74,998Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Ascend Integrated Technology Solutions, INC
- Proposal award date
- 2022-11-02
- Contract end date
- 2023-02-03
- UEI
- HR5ULFF357N9
- Solicitation number
- X22.4
- Topic code
- X224-OCSO1
Research abstract
KeyCloak has become a widely used tool across the USAF/USSF as a user authentication and SSO tool. However, the tool lacks critical functionality for DoD users – namely reliable CAC authentication, location based authentication requirements, and stronger user tracking.
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.
- Rapid Deployment of Secure TAK Development Environment
- AI Powered Cyber Defense & Security
- AI Enhanced, Modular Cyber/Zero-Trust Capabilities for Platforms
- Enhanced TAK Hosting, Development, & Interoperability for the Warfighter
- TrustStack Secure Platform
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Sustainable, Non-Incineration-based Destruction of Air Force Hazardous Waste Stockpiles : TACFI
- IRONCLAD: Integrated Resilient Operations for Naval Cloud and AI Deployments
- Advancing Trustworthy, High-Performance LLM Applications with Multimodal Data Access
- Armed Overwatch & sUAS Close Air Support Solution for Air Force Special Operations
- Runway Integrity Validation through Soil Moisture Measurements from a small UAS
Research funding history
8 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2019–2024). Reported award amounts total $4,624,508. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense