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Back to Company SearchHARMONIA HOLDINGS GROUP, LLC
UEI: SJHANNQ8XZT6
Number of Employees: 365
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
SBIR/STTR Involvement
Year of first award: 2003
52
Phase I Awards
42
Phase II Awards
80.77%
Conversion Rate
$5,382,679
Phase I Dollars
$39,591,251
Phase II Dollars
$44,973,931
Total Awarded
Awards
Group DesignProtect
Amount: $1,459,063 Topic: DLA183-017
We propose to develop DesignProtect to apply blockchain to control access to Department of Defense (DoD) documents in support of Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Via commercial marketplaces, DLA may engage non-traditional part fabricators (e.g., suppliers who are not normally DoD vendors) to provide surge capacity for parts, sharing designs. After dissemination outside of DoD’s network boundary, DesignProtect will track and control access to designs, facilitating reporting of access including disallowed attempts, by maintaining an immutable record. DesignProtect will also provide part fabricators validation if they have permission to use a document and validation of the document’s integrity.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase II
2022
DOD
DLA
Collaborative Ontology Creating Environment for Research Technology (CONCERT)
Amount: $1,679,752 Topic: MDA21-D001
Harmonia proposes to build “CONCERT – A Collaborative Ontology Creating Environment for Research Technology.” CONCERT facilitates secure collaboration between businesses and Technical Monitors, Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Program Managers and other stakeholders in government agencies such as the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). CONCERT is designed using the principles and architecture of software ecosystems or platforms: open-ended, modular, software infrastructure that encourages third-party additions. It will serve the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the Department of Defense (DoD), the U.S. Government, and commercial enterprises in the initiation, management, securing, tracking, controlling, completing, analyzing, and reporting innovation research contracts. For the U.S Government, it will be especially suited for managing Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant programs. This Direct to Phase II project builds on multiple Harmonia past projects. One is to enable non-Common Access Card (CAC) users to submit deliverables securely to the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) using the DTIC Blockchain solution. DTIC Blockchain also traces the chain of custody of deliverables to facilitate the protection of confidential unclassified information (CUI) and classified artifacts. We also build on a Harmonia system for the Office of Naval Research, which enables the construction of a semantic web of content in collaboration artifacts such as deliverables, contract documents, email discussions of deliverables. Yet another past work CONCERT builds on is to use machine learning methods to categorize natural language content in collaboration artifacts, using Harmonia’s work for the United States Marine Corps. Rather than being a stand-alone platform, CONCERT applies an Application Programming Interface (API) First strategy to software construction, exposing CONCERT’s functionality through APIs that permit integration with populate enterprise collaboration and project management tools used at MDA and other agencies, such as Microsoft Office 365 and Atlassian’s suite. CONCERT thus enables small businesses, Technical Monitors, SBIR/STTR Portfolio Managers, and other stakeholders to access Concert functionality through the tools they know and use daily, rather than learning a new system, and minimizing the need to learn user interfaces. Approved for Public Release | 22-MDA-11102 (22 Mar 22)
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase II
2022
DOD
MDA
Large Data Handling Architecture, Designing Large Data Handling Architectures
Amount: $1,749,864 Topic: OSD09-SP4
Harmonia proposes to extend work from Phase II of methods for Large Data Handling Architecture (LDHA) and methods for modeling and managing large enterprise-wide data. The new Phase II work addresses needs in Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business data modeling (BDM). The work logically extends methods investigated in the original Phase II project such as multi-source common data representation for ERP BDM, as well as tagging and tracing data lineage; modeling for scalability; making trade-off studies and measurements; and finding bottlenecks in an enterprise data architecture, which in this new Phase II is the US Navy SAP-based ERP system.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase II
2021
DOD
NAVY
CustodyChain: A Deployable Prototype of Blockchain for Authoritative, Tracked, Verified, and Discoverable Technical Artifacts
Amount: $999,950 Topic: DLA183-017
We propose an innovative system to create an open method of tracking the “chain of custody” of technical artifacts in a distributed ledger called CustodyChain. Blockchains are a form of distributed ledger. CustodyChain facilitates Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)’s goals of preserving knowledge, connecting people, and inspiring innovation. CustodyChain is designed for use beyond DTIC, where it could track documents DLA-wide or DoD-wide. CustodyChain will underpin a new generation approach to create an authoritative and immutable distributed ledger to catalog creation, modification, and distribution of technical data, promulgated to defense and research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) community by DTIC, to support our Warfighters and help assure national security.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase II
2020
DOD
DLA
CustodyChain: A Blockchain of Authoritative, Tracked, Verified, and Discoverable Technical Artifacts
Amount: $99,995 Topic: DLA183-017
We propose an ambitious plan to create an open standard method of tracking the “chain of custody” of technical artifacts in a distributed ledger called CustodyChain. CustodyChain: A Blockchain of Authoritative, Tracked, Verified, and Discoverable Technical Artifacts, will facilitate the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)’s mission to aggregate and fuse science and technology data to rapidly, accurately and reliably deliver the knowledge needed to develop the next generation of technologies to support our Warfighters and help assure national security. Most importantly, CustodyChain facilitates DTIC goals of preserving knowledge, connecting people, and inspiring innovation. CustodyChain will underpin a new generation approach to create an authoritative and immutable distributed ledger to catalog the creation, modification, and distribution of technical data, promulgated to the defense community by DTIC, and later transitioned to adoption throughout Government, academic, and corporate research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) staff.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2019
DOD
DLA
Human Systems Integration (HSI) Engineering Analysis Tool (HEAT)
Amount: $571,165 Topic: N142-083
The Human Systems Integration (HSI) Engineering Analysis Tool, or HEAT, provides advice for engineers using material-design software, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools, on how their design choices affect HSI domains. While there are nine HSI domains: Human Factors Engineering, Survivability, Manpower, Personnel, Training, Environment, Safety, Occupational Health, and Habitability that HEAT’s design can accommodate, we are concentrating on Human Factors Engineering, Survivability, Safety, and Habitability. HEAT is designed in a modular fashion to interface with the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Framework for Assessing Cost and Technology (FACT) or other tradespace analysis tools such as Concurrent Engineering Toolkit (CET). HEAT will advise designers by performing an HSI assessment on their initial design choices, or changes to deployed systems, including impact on Safety and Survivability, which could reduce injuries or save lives, while other assessments in the lifecycle could reduce costs. In combination with CET, or other tools, HEAT permits optimization on multiple variables simultaneously including cost and HSI. HEAT identifies HSI deficiencies, risks, and metrics for a wide variety of engineering systems across the Department of Defense (DoD) and is also designed to support the entire DoD 5000.2E acquisition lifecycle to help reduce lifecycle costs.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase II
2019
DOD
NAVY
Distributed Immutable Data Objects (DIDOs): A Simpler Blockchain for Security, Confidentiality, Resiliency, and Scalability
Amount: $1,496,915 Topic: SB162-004
We propose a system called Distributed Immutable Data Objects (DIDOs). It provides a distributed network capability for secure real-time communication and collaboration of documents. DIDOs will track meta-data of message communication operations, showing who modified what in an unmodifiable blockchain ledger. Traditional methods are centralized, unencrypted, expensive, inefficient, brittle and subject to cyber-attack. This standards-based platform securely transfers messages through a distributed network, allowing for real-time collaboration improving inefficiencies in legacy and current back office infrastructures. All messages will be encrypted using a number of protocols. DIDOs will create a common, cryptographically sound ledger that can be used alongside applications with virtually any type of messages, and support the business logic of the DOD ecosystem.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase II
2018
DOD
DARPA
Index, Export and Search Archived Data for Enterprise Ground Satellite Command and Control Systems from Multiple Sources
Amount: $149,956 Topic: AF162-004
FAST (Fleet Analytics for Space Telemetry) enables the ingestion of real-time streaming telemetry data, multiple times per second. It is massively scalable to handle an arbitrary number of satellites using Big Data approaches that have been demonstrated at the scale of over 20 billion records per second. FAST provides scalable indexing with low latency queries. In addition, FAST can import archived telemetry data from many types of Air Force sites, providing high throughput in indexing and applying statistical analysis to such data. FAST includes a host of views and algorithms for analyzing telemetry, identifying if trends are present, detecting patterns, and alerting operators for possible issues, and assisting in problem resolution.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2017
DOD
USAF
Secure Messaging Platform (SMP) as a Service (SMPaaS)
Amount: $149,968 Topic: SB162-004
We propose a system called Secure Messaging Platform as a Service (SMPaaS).It provides a distributed network capability for secure real-time communication and collaboration of documents. SMPaaS will track meta-data of message communication operations, showing who modified what in an unmodifiable blockchain ledger. Traditional methods are centralized, unencrypted, expensive, inefficient, brittle and subject to cyber-attack.This platform securely transfers messages through a distributed network, allowing for real-time collaboration improving inefficiencies in legacy and current back office infrastructures. All messages will be encrypted using a number of protocols. SMPaaS will create a common, cryptographically sound ledger that can be used alongside applications with virtually any type of messages, and support the business logic of the DOD ecosystem.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
2017
DOD
DARPA
Simulating Signal Phase and Timing with an Intersection Collision Avoidance Traffic Model
Amount: $749,980 Topic: 101FH3
eTEXAS is an integrated traffic and communications simulator developed in cooperation with the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) to support the development of Connected Vehicle (CV) Apps and to perform research on vehicle and roadside Dedicated Short-Range Communication/Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (DSRC/WAVE) communications using the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) standardized J2735 message set. eTEXAS provides a web based interface including vehicle animations. eTEXAS supports using J2735 messages, and an experimental message set produced by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). eTEXAS is a platform to assist organizations developing and validating Apps. eTEXAS integrates a mobility model with a DSRC communications model and simulating the communications of CV Apps deployed on DSRC equipment such as On-Board Units (equipped on vehicles) and Road-Side Equipment (RSE) equipped on infrastructure. The Phase IIB project will prove the Phase II eTEXAS model through field trials, engage stakeholders through training, and enhance eTEXAS with additional features. These features include adding cellular communications as an alternative to DSRC/WAVE, multi-simulator capability to scale via parallel execution of number of communication nodes (in vehicles or road side equipment) and to use eTEXAS as part of a road network simulation with multiple intersections.
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase II
2016
DOT