ASSURED INFORMATION SECURITY, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: AF212-D004
ASSURED INFORMATION SECURITY, INC. — 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.
- Obligated amount $999,844 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
- Topic code AF212-D004 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $999,844
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- AF212-D004
- Solicitation
- 21.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NY
- Period
- 2022-01-13 → 2023-06-29
Description
Assured Information Security, Inc. proposes CODEX, an explainability research effort to enable the practical application of Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) for widescale use in both military and commercial systems. CODEX is a research effort to investigate and develop novel and effective XRL techniques using world-models that show a user both what the RL agent expects will happen after it makes a decision and also develops counterfactual examples (i.e., “what ifs”) to show a user what the RL agent expects would have happened had it made a different decision. Counterfactuals enable a user to better understand the agent’s limitations and understand why it chose a given path. This comparison of counterfactual or hypothetical future events enables global post-hoc explanation of the RL agent, intended to build trust in the RL agent overall rather than explain a single agent decision.