Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, was awarded a $24,509,269 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for research and development. This contract provides for the “Assured and Trusted Microelectronics Solutions (ATMS)” effort to achieve the objectives of the following whitepaper submitted in response to the ATMS Broad Agency Announcement (BAA): White Paper – “Assurance Workflows Applied to Assessment and Vulnerability Discovery”. The scope of this effort is to assist the Air Force Research Laboratory in performing the development of Defense for Security frameworks, methodologies, and metrics for extracting security-related requirements defined by context-based threat models; meet target goals for post-silicon validation and verification for next generation micro-electronics; investigate and deliver validation and verification solutions with a focus on tool development; and advance microelectronic supply chain security through creating assurance cases for identified supply chain risks. Work will be performed in Columbus, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and is expected to be completed by April 26, 2027. This contract was the result of the ATMS BAA; Solicitation Number FA8650-18-S-1201. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $855,847 are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA2377-24-C-B012).
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