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IDAHO SCIENTIFIC LLC

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199 N CAPITOL BLVD STE 402
BOISE, ID, 83702-5937
USA

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UEI: DNE7MBEM1C45

Number of Employees: 33

HUBZone Owned: No

Woman Owned: No

Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No

SBIR/STTR Involvement

Year of first award: 2016

Phase I Awards

Phase II Awards

100%

Conversion Rate

$538,787

Phase I Dollars

$45,152,636

Phase II Dollars

$45,691,423

Total Awarded

Awards

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BitterCloud

Amount: $42,666,676 Topic: AF211-DCSO1

Phase II was critical to maturing Helios from a proof of concept demonstration to a viable and functional prototype. This STRATFI effort will further improve the performance of Helios and mature the technology from an FPGA-based implementation to a standalone ASIC chip, which will further improve security and performance, simplify integration into DoD systems, and drive down recurring cost. This proposed STRATFI effort will enhance other Helios-related Government efforts (counted as matching funds) to add additional rigor in testing and verification.

SBIR

Phase II

2024

DOD

USAF

Secure Assured Filed Transfer (SAFe-T) Drive

Amount: $750,000 Topic: AF191-049

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper warned that the United States is in the midst of the “greatest intellectual property theft in human history”. That theft happens through data leaks within DOD contractors and the recent SolarWinds incident reminds us t

SBIR

Phase II

2021

DOD

USAF

Helios: Dual-Purpose Secure Processor

Amount: $749,954 Topic: AF211-DCSO1

Helios is a secure processor that prevents memory corruption exploits, which account for 46% of all Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) as recorded by MITRE. This fundamental vulnerability affects billions of AMD, Intel and ARM processors and after decades of work, there is still no conclusive resolution for commercial or Department of Defense (DOD) systems. Smart phone manufacturers, such as Samsung, have recognized the value of secure processors as a root solution to a pervasive problem and the latest phones coming to market include secure processing capability. Commercial secure processors still lack certain protections necessary for DOD systems but DOD can expedite the pace of adapting secure processors by using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and building on work done by open commercial standards, such as RISC-V. Architectures of future systems will include a number of different secure processing approaches but because it leverages previous SBIR work, Idaho Scientific investment and work done by the RISC-V consortium and because it can be implemented in an FPGA, Helios is the fastest opportunity to get trusted and secure processing into operational platforms. Because neither existing commercial processors nor open standard variants, such as RISC-V, have entirely resolved memory corruption vulnerabilities at their root, Idaho Scientific was awarded a Phase I SBIR by the Department of Energy (DOE) to develop Helios, with the intention of securing grid-connected commercial Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), such as solar panel and battery control systems. Star Lab, a Wind River Systems company, the global leader in embedded system software, has licensed an early evaluation copy of Helios. Through this Phase II effort, Helios will be adapted to address DOD cyber survivability requirements, starting with a near term validated need in the MQ-9 platform. This effort is supported by the Air Force MQ-9 System Program Office (Air Force Customer and End User). A final demonstration will be held at the government-owned Reaper Test System Integration Laboratory at Redstone Arsenal.

SBIR

Phase II

2021

DOD

USAF

Secure Assured File Transfer Drive

Amount: $149,926 Topic: AF191-049

1. To address the short comings in existing forensics bridge design, reduce the workload of system security staff, and increase the security of assured file transfers, Idaho Scientific proposes a nine month, $150k effort to design and prototype a Secure Assured File Transfer drive. (SAFE-T Drive) is a high assurance purpose built AFT drive with an integrated forensics bridge. SAFE-T Drive will fill the role of protecting the virus scanning system and replace CDs and DVDs as the limited means in which to move data between systems. The goal of this phase I SBIR is to develop a proof of concept prototype demonstrating the security functions of SAFE-T Drive. If successful, Idaho Scientific will propose a follow-on Phase II effort to mature the prototype to a production ready product that Idaho Scientific will offer for use by security professionals in high assurance environments.

SBIR

Phase I

2019

DOD

USAF

Secure Processor Features for the Enforcement of Separation Kernels

Amount: $99,985 Topic: A18-133

Idaho Scientific presents a Risc-V based secure processor architecture that provides unique security properties complimentary to the seL4 microkernel. The work conducted under this Phase I SBIR effort will further the discipline of computer security by mitigating memory corruption vulnerabilities, enforcing strong processes separation, covering seL4's formal verification assumptions, and provide a path to close physical anti-tamper vulnerabilities.

SBIR

Phase I

2019

DOD

ARMY

Embedded Class Secure Processor

Amount: $149,981 Topic: 12b

A recent report from the Defense Science Board on cyber deterrence states that we have only seen the “virtual tip of the cyberattack iceberg.” This report warns that for at least the next 5-10 years, other nations will have offensive cyber capabilities that “far exceed the United States’ ability to defend and adequately strengthen the resilience of its critical infrastructures” and will use cyber to hold U.S. critical infrastructure at risk by targeting of inherently vulnerable industrial control systems (ICS).” Recent cyber-attacks including STUXNET [3], Ukraine power grid [4], Israel power grid [5], and the Kemuri Water Company [6] hacks have shown that cyber equipped adversaries are actively targeting industrial control infrastructure to achieve their goals. The current approach in critical infrastructure security is insufficient to address nation state adversaries. The industry is focused on perimeter defense, firewalls, and anti-virus solutions found in enterprise information technology (IT) techniques. Most of which are at best “Band-Aids” and do not address the vulnerable mechanisms in computer hardware and software. In this Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) effort, the proposer will research, develop, and demonstrate a novel secure processor architecture designed to address the inherent vulnerabilities in modern computer processors. This project will break the trend in playing cat and mouse with response based cyber security tactics.

SBIR

Phase I

2018

DOE

Secure Protocol Unalterable Data (SPUD) Phase II

Amount: $986,006 Topic: MDA15-009

Idaho Scientific proposes the development of Secure Protocol Unalterable Data (SPUD) as a means to identify activity against system technologies. Approved for Public Release | 17-MDA-9219 (31 May 17)

SBIR

Phase II

2017

DOD

MDA

Secure Protocol Unalterable Data (SPUD)

Amount: $138,896 Topic: MDA15-009

Idaho Scientific proposes to design and develop, SPUD, an irrefutable tamper logging protocol.During the course of this Phase I effort, Idaho Scientific will implement the core of the logging protocol and develop a set of unit tests designed to evaluate properties of that protocol that uphold its irrefutable claims. During a Phase II effort, Idaho Scientific would propose to encapsulate this protocol in a suite of libraries and utilities that can be easily distributed for use by the Department of Defense (DoD) and their prime contractors for integration into Anti-Tamper solutions.

SBIR

Phase I

2016

DOD

MDA