RISE8 INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: X224-OCSO1
RISE8 INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
- Phase I awards fund proof-of-concept work. For capture teams, they mark early interest from Department of Defense in a technical approach.
- Watch for Phase II follow-ons from the same firm/topic family — that conversion path is where budgets and transition pressure rise.
- Obligated amount $74,998. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
- Topic code X224-OCSO1 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $74,998
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- X224-OCSO1
- Solicitation
- X22.4
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- FL
- Period
- 2022-11-03 → 2023-02-03
Description
Space systems’ cyber vulnerabilities represent the “soft underbelly” of the U.S. satellite infrastructure. USSF SpOC Commander, Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting said governments such as China’s and Russia’s can attack satellites in orbit, but that cyberattacks offer a “lower bar to entry” to lesser powers, such as Iran or North Korea. In response to national security threats such as this one, Kobayashi Maru has been tasked with developing, modernizing, and deploying software capabilities for the Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC), 18th Space Control Squadron (SPCS), and National Space and Defense Center (NSDC). Within the CSpOC’s mission, there is a critical missing capability in the Combat Space Operations Assessment domain that Kobayashi Maru has yet to develop digital solutions for. Specifically, the CSpOC lacks a highly automated, modern Operations Assessment capability that is based on real-time, dynamic information across the systems and applications that compose the Space Tasking Cycle (STC).