SBIR/STTR Research Award
DeepTHIRST (Deep-Trusted Hardware Integrity Roots under Scrutiny and Test
Award amount
$149,965Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ASSURED INFORMATION SECURITY, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2019-12-18
- Contract end date
- 2020-12-18
- UEI
- PPEKTM9CTAJ3
- Solicitation number
- 19.3
- Topic code
- AF193-012
Research abstract
The result of this effort will be a reproducible toolchain and functional build for a Talos II POWER9 system, with a focus on the boot firmware (later phases will provide build artifacts of other system firmware). The toolchain will incorporate theoretical techniques that provide guarantees to prevent compiler/linker compromise, so build output is a trustworthy representation of the source code it builds. In addition, a repeatable approach to verifying the in-band firmware update mechanism is trustworthy is developed, and evidence of results of the approach are provided.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Extendable Sensor-software Platform for Detection, Classification, and Tracking of UAS (DeteCT )
- Discovering Inconsistencies and Changes for Knowledge Enrichment in Networked Semantics (DICKENS)
- Secure Synthetic Data via Text Diffusion Models
- Multi-modal Ongoing Neural Authentication for Resource Constrained Hardware (MONARCH )
- Extendible Sensor-software Platform for Detection, Classification, and Tracking of UAS (ESP for DeteCT)
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
43 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2006–2025). Reported award amounts total $27,450,862. 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
Contractor profile
ASSURED INFORMATION SECURITY, INC.
Historical federal award activity, when published, is on that contractor profile. Matched by UEI only.