AFWERX award

RTI Receives SBIR Award to Enhance Software Framework for Better Network Threat Detection

AFWERX has awarded California-based software company Real-Time Innovations a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract worth $1.25 million to enhance RTI Connext.

Connext is a software framework meant for use in developing modular real-time systems. The software framework is compliant with the Object Management Group Data Distribution Service, an open standard for messaging that supports real-time systems.

Paul Pazandak, director of research at RTI, said the SBIR award will make it possible for his organization to explore, among other things, “semantic level threat analysis and response frameworks”.

The investigation of semantic-level information would help bring about a more accurate understanding of data movement within a network, facilitating better detection of anomalies — including cyber attacks — and more effective responses, RTI said.

Pazandak went on to note that the work to be carried out under the SBIR award will contribute to the building of more secure systems and will be beneficial to the defense and commercial markets.