SBIR/STTR Research Award
AlertPrime: Tokenizing WEA
Award amount
$749,577Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Homeland Security
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- NAND Technologies, Inc
- Proposal award date
- 2018-09-18
- Contract end date
- 2020-09-17
- UEI
- D834AJLHB131
- Solicitation number
- HSHQDC-17-R-00010
- Topic code
- H-SB017.1-007
Research abstract
In an emergency or other special situation, government agencies can send messages to mobile phones in affected areas using Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). The messages might convey life-saving information where it is needed, but vulnerabilities in the underlying mobile networks could allow bad actors to use WEA to send their own messages for harmful purposes. NAND Technologies will research and develop new methods to authenticate WEA messages and give mobile phone users the confidence that the emergency alerts they receive are legitimate, and to give U.S. Government agencies the ability to provide more information than the current system allows.
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.
Research funding history
3 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2017–2018). Reported award amounts total $949,577. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Homeland Security