Vencore awarded DARPA research contract
Vencore has been awarded a contract by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to deliver research and proof-of-concept implementations in the area of efficient programme obfuscation, the company announced on 15 January.
The contract, which is a part of DARPA’s SafeWare programme, is valued at $3.7 million.
The SafeWare project aims to develop efficient and widely applicable programme obfuscation methods that will make it more complicated for adversaries to reverse engineer software in captured equipment.
The company will team with BBN Technologies and New Jersey Institute of Technology, to leverage its prior work on efficient protocols for privacy-preserving computation and homomorphic encryption completed under DARPA’s Programming Computation on Encrypted Data (PROCEED) programme and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Security and Privacy Assurance Research (SPAR) programme.
Steven Omick, president, Vencore Labs, said: ‘This research will focus on enabling highly secure, highly efficient techniques that meet real-world applications and are most relevant to the Department of Defense in defending programmes against reverse engineering attacks. This work builds on our expertise in cyber security and applied research can help our customer stay ahead of the technological curve in defending against those types of attacks.’
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