DARK WOLF SOLUTIONS, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: AF191-011
DARK WOLF SOLUTIONS, LLC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
Phase II SBIR prototype / development signal
- Phase II is where Department of Defense funds deeper R&D after feasibility. Incumbents with Phase II history are serious competitors on adjacent topics.
- Use this award as past-performance context and to map customer organizations for STRATFI/TACFI-style transition planning.
- At $1,706,531, this is a large obligation for typical SBIR Phase sizing — worth reviewing for scope breadth and teaming opportunity.
- Topic code AF191-011 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $1,706,531
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- AF191-011
- Solicitation
- 19.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- VA
- Period
- 2021-01-22 → 2022-04-22
Description
Dark Wolf Solutions proposes a Penetration Testing as a Service Open Source (PTaaS-OS) solution that utilizes open source technologies to combine security frameworks, such as NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Payment Card Industry (PCI), with software automation and machine learning to integrate active security control testing into the IT Enterprise and the Agile DevOps development process. As part of a Continuous ATO process, to support the requirement for ongoing authorization, a manual security evaluation to validate security controls can be performed. Once completed, the results of that test will be modeled into an automation engine that can replay that test at will, thus addressing the issue of penetration testing at large scale. PTaaS will also be a key component of an Agile DevSecOps Software Factory where it can be utilized to automatically run penetration testing plays against applications prior to production deployment. Given the sheer volume of Air Force projects which need to go through the accreditation process to receive ATO or retain their current ATO, a more cost effective and less manpower intensive solution is required. We believe PTaaS-OS solves these problems while addressing the overarching need.