Contract Award: Assured Information Security Inc. (Rome, New York) – $95,000,000

Assured Information Security Inc.,* Rome, New York, has been awarded a $95,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity single award contract for an Antifragility Workstation for Resiliency (AWARE) prototype. This contract provides for AWARE Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III, which will extend antifragility techniques developed in previous phases and apply experience, tools, and techniques to improve emergent and operational cyber capabilities developed by the Air Force and partnering combatant commands. Work will be performed in Rome, New York, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2026. Fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $5,000; and Fiscal 2021 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $14,473,176 will be obligated at the time of award. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition under SBIR Phase I award, and subsequent SBIR Phase II award. Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, New York, is the contracting activity (FA8750-21-D-0001).