SBIR/STTR Research Award

Novel Secure Communications Technology for Increased Sexual Assault Reporting

Award identifier fecda0745e50b56a6cee849124a2019cb9e8d5ba21289cfb1ed4aea0f3137d18Awarding agency Department of Defense · Air Force

Award amount

$50,000

Program and phase

SBIR · Phase I

Award year

2020

Explore This Research Award in CaptureIQ

Research the technology, evaluate the recipient and agency, identify related opportunities, and explore potential follow-on work with CaptureIQ.

Award details

Awarding agency
Department of Defense
Branch
Air Force
Recipient company
ZIOS CORPORATION
Proposal award date
2020-03-09
Contract end date
2020-06-09
UEI
VHEKVTMRPN64
Solicitation number
X20.1
Topic code
J201-CSO1

Research abstract

Organizations across the United States are having difficulty responding to internal events of sexual assault and external events of domestic violence. From the victims’ perspective, trust and safety is a primary concern and the environment of the current systems often leads to such crimes being unreported, unintentionally escalated beyond their control, or worse: no action being taken at all.  There is a much-needed solution that allows victims to get the resources they need, when they need it, while empowering them to have control of their situation by anonymously sharing their story with the people that can help them the most. Using cryptographic security found in basic distributed ledger technology (DLT) and our granted US cyber patents, we are allowing victims to securely and transparently store their confidential documents and story, in one place, and in an acceptable format for collaboration with organizations and service providers. The secure nature of DLT allows us to provide the victim with guaranteed control over who can have access to their data at every step of their unique journey to closure. Victims choose from our network of vetted service providers to create private permissioned-access teams. The platform walks them through a holistic plan and whether to report or not, where the victim has 100% control over the communication process. Only the victim can decide the conditions of how their personal data is shared, as their team executes a holistic plan to enable them to become survivors and get the justice they deserve.  Our technology is dynamically adaptive to its environment, interoperates with other systems, and destroys itself when finished processing. Our commercial offering is a secure cybersecurity as a service platform. Our patented technology automates the creation of our platform's components synthesized with dynamic interoperability and capable of adaptive proactive cybersecurity on demand in the cloud. This adaptive system uses ephemeral virtual machine architecture to create DLT systems when needed and can destroy itself to remove all traces of data from processes when completed or necessary. Software dynamically synthesized on the cloud adds a layer of cybersecurity to endpoints as they will not statically persist in one digital location. Dynamic interoperability insures super secure middleware and secure endpoint transactions. "One cannot hack what does not exist". Ephemeral systems combined with DLT provides the security and trust that is needed to help victims get the justice they deserve. Our patented technology is a proactive cybersecurity solution as opposed to competitors' reactive cybersecurity approaches which are taken after the breach occurs.  We propose a novel secure communication methodology for the military to use in sexual assault reporting.

Technology keywords

Not reported

Awards with the same topic code

Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.

Agency intelligence

Department of Defense

Back to SBIR/STTR Research Awards

Don't take our word for it. Ask AI about RFPCapture.

See what leading AI assistants have to say about RFPCapture and CaptureIQ.

Gemini opens without a prefilled question. The question is copied to your clipboard when the button works. You can also copy it here:

What is RFPCapture.com and its CaptureIQ platform from Smart Logic AI? How does it help federal contractors discover opportunities, evaluate bid/no-bid decisions, research government contracts, and prepare proposals? How does it compare with other federal capture platforms? Use independent sources where available.