A ton of SBIR money comes from the DoD. They have 3 solicitation rounds per year. Phase 1 contracts are ~$100k, Phase 2 are ~$1M.
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DoD solicitations are for specific topics and research. In the 8 years I occupied this space, I saw dozens of cybersecurity topics.
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Many of these were specifically about hardening the systems that Russian hackers have been targeting or detecting such attacks.
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Here's the thing: all the millions and millions of dollars thrown into these research efforts were complete bullshit.
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Many topics are "wired." The solicitation is written with a contractor in mind but it has to be opened for competition.
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All this talk of "why couldn't we prevent it or detect it" is a side effect of not even trying, instead funneling money to rich dudes.
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SBIR success stories are few and far between. We have pissed away hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars and gotten no return.
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All of that money could have been used to actually protect our digital infrastructure. Instead it's in white dudes' second homes.
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Here's a typical cybersecurity solicitation from the Air Force from the latest round. What the fuck are they even asking for???pic.twitter.com/0fOUvfnJt7
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"The focus of this research is on reconfiguration in the infrastructure of the application." Why are these English words in this order?
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SBIR's were mostly boondoggles when I worked on a few in the 90s. They might accidentally lead to something, but rarely
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In the 80′s my friend made a strategy game and used SBIR proposals as the “tech tree”. That was pretty dope.
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I did a contract almost exactly like this a year ago. It's about using puppet/chef to redeploy different, working templates to stop attack
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It's so that in the event of an detected intrusion you can redeploy a multi tiered app all at once to prevent re-intrusion
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It might be wired to a specific contractor, but the description you posted is standard boilerplate requirements that I might have written
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