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Software Tools for Information Assured Intelligent Agents (IA)^2

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
75201 		Program Year/Program:
2007 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
N051-066-0357 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
21st Century Systems, Incorporated
6825 Pine Street, Suite 141 Omaha, NE -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2007
Title: Software Tools for Information Assured Intelligent Agents (IA)^2
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N00014-07-C-0111
Award Amount: $447,916.00
 

Abstract:

Software Agents and Agent Systems are making their way from the university research labs to the mainstream industrial and government markets. We are witnessing a revolutionary change in the computing environments as legacy stove-piped systems are giving way to flexible customizable multi-agent systems. However, most of the currently available multi-agent systems do not sufficiently address the requirements and needs of information assurance (IA). Even current research does not fully address some of the hard problems posed by the requirements for availability, integrity, confidentiality, authentication, and non-repudiation. 21st Century Systems, Incorporated (21CSI) is pleased to propose to continue the research and development of tools and methodologies to allow the application of a definable set of information assurance rules to the development and run-time monitoring of software agents. 21CSI's Information Assurance for Intelligent Agents (IA2) project encompasses: a powerful rules-based static analysis implemented as a plug-in to the Eclipse IDE; a tamper-proof deployment methodology; and the run-time monitoring of agents executing on popular agent platforms. Our primary objective is to create easy-to-use IA tools to encourage adoption by agent developers and system administrators, without sacrificing the power, flexibility, and expressiveness needed for application to a wide range of domains and IA requirements.

Principal Investigator:

Kevin Blenkhorn
Program Manager
7032366993
Kevin.Blenkhorn@21csi.com

Business Contact:

Stuart L. Aldridge
VP, DCTO
4025057887
stuart@21csi.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

21ST CENTURY SYSTEMS, INC.
12152 Windsor Hall Way Herndon, VA 20170

EIN/Tax ID: 133893506
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No