Peraton Labs has been awarded a contract under the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Mission-Integrated Network Control program to design, develop, integrate, test and evaluate a multidomain network orchestration solution.
The solution will enable real-time, autonomous discovery and configuration of interconnected military networks, and support on-demand connectivity in the most challenging tactical environments. The contract is worth up to $20 million over a 42-month period.
“Peraton Labs will develop and deliver an automated network discovery and control solution that can dynamically compose data pathways across multiple warfighting and networking domains to support missions in all-domain warfare,” said Petros Mouchtaris, president of Peraton Labs.
The goal of the MINC program is to ensure critical data finds a path to the right user at the right time in highly contested, highly dynamic and heterogeneous communications environments.
“With intelligent, mission-driven control and the ability to interoperate across a heterogeneous mix of legacy and future systems, our solution will provide reliable communications capability to our warfighters,” Mouchtaris added.
Peraton Labs’ solution will orchestrate control across all available resources — communications, compute and storage. A critical part of this effort will be to develop a software development kit to provide for the sustained development of MINC-enabled applications beyond the program.
“To build this capability, Peraton Labs leverages deep expertise and extensive experience in machine learning, virtualization, software-defined networking, and tactical communications,” Mouchtaris said. “Our solution will not only enable joint all-domain operations, but also provide a ‘leave-behind’ capability for continued development, integration, and use by third parties.”