KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: MDA18-001

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS INC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$999,297
Agency
Department of Defense · Missile Defense Agency
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase II
Topic
MDA18-001
Solicitation
18.1
NAICS
Place of performance
TX
Period
2019-09-19 → 2021-09-18

Description

Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) will design and demonstrate an Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Analysis Training Environment (ACTIVATE) framework that directly targets the need for advanced cyber network defense training. The proposed new enabling capability will support cyber training against an intelligent red team to enhance cyber operator trainee cyber-attack recognition and recovery. ACTIVATE will provide the defense training community with a novel, adaptive, intelligent, and user-configurable framework for sensitizing and training cyber network defender skills and competencies. Building off the Phase I innovation, the Phase II project will extend the ACTIVATE methods and tools leading to a hardened, focused, and transition-ready ACTIVATE capability to significantly train cyber defenders with enhanced situational awareness and decision making capabilities. Approved for Public Release 19-MDA-10203 (4 Sep 19)