Lockheed Martin Developing Configuration Security System for AFRL

Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, Florida, has been awarded an $8,569,784 cost-plus-fixed fee contract for Agile ConSec Evaluation Support software/hardware system. This contract provides for developing technologies for automatically analyzing and improving the configuration of complex composed systems to reduce attack surface while assuring expected behavior. The ConSec program will develop an automated capability to generate, deploy, and monitor the configurations of components in a composed system to provide expected functionality while minimizing attack. Work will be performed in Orlando, Florida. The location of performance is Orlando, Florida, and is expected to be completed 42 months after the contract is awarded. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition, and 35 offers were received. Fiscal year 2017 and 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $1,661,904 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, New York, is the contracting activity (FA8750-18-C-0146).