UTICA, N.Y. — Quanterion Solutions has been awarded a $150,000 U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) effort to support the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate’s research of the “Secure Internet of Things (IoT) Operational Planning Environment (SIoTOPE).” The project revolves around building IoT capabilities for the Air Force and pioneering integration […]
UTICA, N.Y. — Quanterion Solutions has been awarded a $150,000 U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) effort to support the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate’s research of the “Secure Internet of Things (IoT) Operational Planning Environment (SIoTOPE).”
The project revolves around building IoT capabilities for the Air Force and pioneering integration strategies from other supporting capabilities within the U.S. Department of Defense. Quanterion Solutions will establish an interoperable cloud ecosystem for integrating and testing IoT devices to produce technological solutions in support of Air Force “mission use cases.”
“The proliferation of IoT devices offers a wealth of new capabilities to the warfighter,” Alex MacDiarmid, director of advanced programs at Quanterion, said in a news release. “At the same time, it is absolutely critical that we properly secure these technologies so as not to introduce new attack vectors.” MacDiarmid is leading the in-house team of technical experts working on the SBIR.
In the first phase, Quanterion will design and implement a scalable cloud-hosted environment that provides the necessary ecosystem and infrastructure to test and evaluate disparate edge devices, data streams, processing pipelines, and analytics, as well as decision-support displays with research into digital twin modeling, big-data analytics, and edge-processing capabilities. The results of this effort will ultimately support IoT/Internet of Battlefield Things solution development, increasing situational awareness, force readiness, and operational efficiency.
Quanterion Solutions says it has worked for a long time at the forefront of Department of Defense IoT implementations, providing assessments and guidance to organizations including U.S. Central Command, AFRL Information Directorate, U.S. Marine Corps, the National Security Agency, the FBI, and the Department of Energy.
The Utica company is a small business and technical-solutions provider that specializes in analytical services, products, and training in disciplines including cybersecurity, managed cloud services, information-systems management, software development, and more.
