• Peraton will design, develop, test, and evaluate novel methods to exploit attackers’ cognitive limitations and biases, waste attackers’ time and effort, and disrupt early and late-stage attacks.
• The company’s CyberVAN™ solution will serve as the experimentation and evaluation testbed across the program.

 
RESTON, Va. — Feb. 26, 2024 — Peraton has been awarded a competitive contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) under its Reimagining Security with Cyberpsychology-Informed Network Defenses (ReSCIND) program. The company will design, develop, test, and evaluate methods that assess the attackers’ decision-making biases and cognitive vulnerabilities and use this knowledge to deploy novel, cyberpsychology-driven defenses that reduce the effectiveness of both early and late stage cyberattacks.

“Traditional cyber defense is limited by an asymmetry where attackers take advantage of human limitations and biases,” said Chris Valentino, chief innovation officer, Strategic Innovation Group, Peraton. “We are excited to deploy novel solutions to rebalance this asymmetry by exploiting attackers’ weaknesses and disrupting the cyber kill chain.”

CyberVAN, Peraton’s high-fidelity cyber range, will be used as the experimentation and evaluation testbed for the ReSCIND program, supporting testing, assessment, and validation of new cyberpsychology-based defenses. As a mature cyber proving ground, CyberVAN provides flexible scenario development, emulation-based testing and evaluation, comprehensive data collection, in-depth performance analysis, and operational and impact metrics.

• Peraton has signed an agreement with the Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI) to move and expand its West Lafayette Research and Innovation Center.
• PARI serves as a hub for industry-university collaborations that advance development and transition technology into innovative solutions and services.
• Peraton’s West Lafayette Research and Innovation Center accelerates work addressing national security challenges by providing access to a strong local talent pool of engineers and researchers and fostering collaboration with Purdue University.

RESTON, Va. — January 22, 2023 — Peraton has signed an agreement to license space at the Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI) for its West Lafayette Research and Innovation Center. Peraton will move from its current location in West Lafayette to the new office as it continues to expand national security research, address growing mission needs, and leverage local talent. PARI works to extend the reach and impact of Purdue University and provides state-of-the-art facilities and infrastructure for applied research, development, and technology transition.

Peraton’s West Lafayette Research and Innovation Center is part of the Peraton Strategic Innovation Group (SIG), led by Chris Valentino, chief innovation officer. The center conducts applied research and development (R&D) in cyber, networking,  operations, and quantum technologies ,with deep expertise in cyber defense, network virtualization, critical infrastructure protection, exploration and assessment of emerging cyber threats, and networking technologies and operations from architecture and protocols to network control and service management.

Peraton’s SIG provides thought leadership, creates differentiation, and connects value streams from basic and applied R&D to innovative solutions that meet its customers’ mission needs. “We are excited to expand our presence in the West Lafayette area and build on our long-standing relationship with Purdue,“ said Chris Valentino. “Leveraging the strong local talent pool and our connections with Purdue University enables us to meet expanding opportunities for mission-critical R&D and accelerate the pace and breadth of our work addressing national security challenges.”

PARI is a nonprofit entity that works to harness Purdue University’s deep research strengths and top-ranked academic programs in engineering, agriculture, science, and technology to improve national security, global development, infrastructure solutions, and critical technology development and fielding. Through applied research and program personnel, state-of-the-art facilities and infrastructure, PARI significantly enhances the translation of discoveries into innovative solutions and services for mission-oriented government, industry, NGO and foundation partners.

“A strong community of innovators and problems solvers is part of the PARI DNA,” said Kevin Massey, PARI’s Chief Operations Officer. “It is exciting to have a nationally recognized leader in research such as Peraton working side by side with PARI staff in a PARI facility. It makes us both stronger through daily collaboration and sharing of ideas. We look forward to growing this partnership and jointly solving some of the nation’s most pressing problems.”

• Peraton Labs will mature, adapt, and qualify its 1553 Bus Defender™ product for potential future integration and flight testing on the MQ-8C Fire Scout.
• The Bus Defender devices will identify, prevent, and mitigate unauthorized access and cyberattacks on MQ-8C Fire Scout 1553 data bus devices.
• Peraton Labs’ Bus Defender product line provides lifecycle cyber survivability for platforms using the MIL-STD-1553 data bus.

​Peraton Labs was awarded a $9.2 million contract for engineering, development, production, testing, and evaluation of 1553 data bus cybersecurity Intrusion Detection/Intrusion Prevention System (IDS/IPS) devices for the MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Air System (UAS). On this contract, Peraton Labs will tailor and mature its 1553 Bus Defender solution to meet integration requirements and qualification testing for the MQ-8C Fire Scout. Peraton Labs will also deliver two fully qualified IDS/IPS prototype kits.

​The MQ-8C Fire Scout provides real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), including line-of-sight tactical reconnaissance, classification, targeting and laser designation, and communications relay. Like many fielded warfighting platforms, it utilizes the MIL-STD-1553 bus. The Bus Defender solution will provide the 1553 data bus with formidable cybersecurity defenses, protecting the MQ-8C Fire Scout from unauthorized access and cyberattacks launched or propagated over the data bus.

​“Peraton Labs’ 1553 Bus Defender product line provides lifecycle cyber survivability for platforms and warfighting systems using the 1553 data bus,” according to Chris Valentino, Chief Strategy Officer and interim president, Peraton Labs. “We are excited to mature, qualify, and deliver our 1553 Bus Defender solution, which will prevent and mitigate 1553-based cyberattacks on the MQ-8C Fire Scout and enable it to meet its critical mission.”

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• ​Machine learning-based technology will enable ground vehicles, ships, drone swarms, and robotic systems to adjust the way they operate to events not envisioned at design time.
• Adaptive Control with AI solution leverages sensors and AI to provide assistance to the system’s operator, whether a human operator or an autonomous controller.

Peraton Labs has been awarded a DARPA contract to develop machine learning-based technology to enable ground vehicles, ships, drone swarms, robotic systems, and other long-lived physical systems to adapt to unexpected events. Under DARPA’s Learning Introspective Control program, the Peraton Labs team will develop and evaluate capability to update the system control algorithm in real time and provide guidance to the system’s human operator or autonomous controller.

Military systems are designed to operate over a wide range of environments; nonetheless, over lengthy service durations, unexpected conditions arise which cause systems to operate out of their design limits. Currently the burden is on the operator – human or autonomous – to maintain effective and safe control of systems operating in unusual conditions due to damage, environmental extremes, and other unanticipated situations.

“Peraton Labs will research, design, implement, and test a solution called Adaptive Control with AI (ACAI) to assist operators, human or machine, in maintaining control of systems in adverse situations,” said Petros Mouchtaris, PhD., president of Peraton Labs. “We are excited to develop and deliver real-time adaptive control technology that provides military platforms with substantial advantages in speed, agility, and responsiveness for operations in dynamic theater environments.” 
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ACAI leverages data from on-board sensors and applies a sophisticated combination of machine learning, constrained optimization, and a robust optimal control framework to select optimal controls based on the current system state and environmental conditions. ACAI’s intelligent control algorithm coordinates between performance and safety to provide high-performance controls while also maintaining the safety and stability of the system.

• PERATON LABS' SOLUTION WILL ENABLE REAL-TIME, AUTONOMOUS DISCOVERY AND CONFIGURATION OF INTERCONNECTED MILITARY NETWORKS, SUPPORTING ON-DEMAND CONNECTIVITY IN CHALLENGING TACTICAL ENVIRONMENTS
  
• SOLUTION WILL ORCHESTRATE CONTROL ACROSS ALL AVAILABLE RESOURCES – COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTE, AND STORAGE – BY COMBINING NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES
  
  

HERNDON, VA — February 9, 2022 – Peraton Labs has been awarded a contract under the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) program to design, develop, integrate, test, and evaluate a multi-domain 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.

The goal of MINC is to ensure that critical data finds a path to the right user at the right time in highly contested, highly dynamic and heterogeneous communications environments. Peraton Labs’ solution will replace static configuration of individual tactical networks with automated, mission-driven, and secure control across diverse networks of networks.

“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, Ph.D., president, Peraton Labs. “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.”

Peraton Labs’ solution will orchestrate control across all available resources – communications, compute, and storage – by combining novel technologies, including:

• A secure, always-on control overlay to discover network resources
• A distributed orchestration framework that reasons over battlespace resources
• A framework for automatically translating mission intent to networking objectives, and
• An intuitive, flexible interface to deliver rapid situational intelligence and reduce the cognitive load on operators.

A critical part of this work 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,” said Mouchtaris. “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.”

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• Award comprises prototype software solutions and a sensor network with automated workflows to ensure spectrum availability for aerial combat training 
  
• Builds upon Peraton Labs' successful track record of delivering value on more than $50M worth of prototype projects through the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC) over the past four years

CHANTILLY, VA — October 26, 2021 – Peraton Labs has been awarded a contract to design, develop, demonstrate, test, and evaluate the Operational Spectrum Comprehension, Analytics, and Response (OSCAR) solution for the Department of Defense (DOD) Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD R&E).