It was announced on January 15th by information solutions, engineering and analytics provider, Vencore that the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded its research subsidiary, Vencore Labs, Inc. a $3.7 million contract to deliver research and proof-of-concept implementations in the area of efficient program obfuscation. All work completed under this prime contract falls under the DARPA SafeWare Program.
Steven Omick, President at 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 programs 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.”
Vencore Labs will be working with the New Jersey Institute of Technology and also BBN Technologies to build on previous efforts in the areas of privacy-preserving computation and homomorphic encryption completed under DARPA’s Programming Computation on Encrypted Data (PROCEED) program and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Security and Privacy Assurance Research (SPAR) program.
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