SBIR-STTR Award

Foundry Assurance Modeling & Experiments for Radiation Hardened (FAME-RH) Applications
Award last edited on: 6/30/2023

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : MDA
Total Award Amount
$2,849,997
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
AF161-150
Principal Investigator
Brian Schott

Company Information

Nimbis Services Inc

1616 Anderson Road Suite 100
Mclean, VA 22102
   (703) 286-0770
   info@nimbisservices.com
   www.nimbisservices.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 11
County: Fairfax

Phase I

Contract Number: FA8650-16-M-1809
Start Date: 6/16/2016    Completed: 3/15/2017
Phase I year
2016
Phase I Amount
$149,997
Nimbis Services, Inc. Trusted Silicon Stratus Microelectronics Assurance (TSSMA) response to Topic AF161-150: Cloud Services for Trustworthy Microelectronics Assurance will provide a collaborative ecosystem to address the challenge of trustworthy microelectronics in the commercial and DoD supply chain.This will be accomplished through identification, hosting, optimization, and DoD community deployment of current and emerging trustworthy tools and techniques in a trusted cloud based collaborative multi-tenancy eco-system.The objective is to develop a process for hardware assurance in the design and integrity of microelectronics across the life cycle that can be accessed by users.The Nimbis proposed effort will meet this objective by extending its Trusted Silicon Stratus (TSS) Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) eco-system, developed under Air Force Rapid Innovation Funding.While continuing to address Trust in Design (TiD), the TSS will be extended beyond the design phase to incorporate tools and techniques developed for the fabrication, packaging, acquisition, and sustainment phase and establish a process to help ensure the design and integrity of microelectronics across the entire life cycle.The primary Phase I emphasis is on the identification and study of trustworthy microelectronics processes, techniques, tools, and technology that may be hosted and integrated within the TSS eco-system.;

Benefit:
TSSMA will greatly enhance trustworthy microelectronics implementation success and DoD community deployment by providing trustworthy design-to-release and manufacturing-to-operational life-cycle management of chip designs.Nimbis Services is uniquely positioned to develop and commercialize the TSSMA for the government, DoD contractor, manufacturing and commercial industry with a specific early focus on the defense primes and suppliers.In addition, TSSMA strengthens our commercial cloud based suite of brokerage and ecommerce web services that connect users with third-party High Performance Computing (HPC) resources, commercial engineering, manufacturing, industrial, and application software, and domain specific expertise in a secure environment.

Phase II

Contract Number: HQ0860-22-C-7136
Start Date: 9/28/2022    Completed: 9/27/2024
Phase II year
2022
Phase II Amount
$2,700,000
The Phase II effort will develop a hardware assurance process for development of testing regimes supporting DoD total ironizing dose (TID) Radiation Hardware Assurance (RHA) requirements while being minimally disruptive to commercial practices and facilitate assured and cost-effective utilization of foundries used by the DoD. Phase II will build upon the Trusted Silicon Stratus-Distributed Transition Environment (TSS-DTE) cloud platform to enhance the current data management and repository solution for management and delivery of process data and information used or developed in the performance of tasks described herein. Phase II will also provide support and maintenance for the Electronic Parts Library (EPL) database and documentation needed for DoD Impact Level 4 (IL4) Provisional Authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the DoD. Approved for Public Release | 22-MDA-11215 (27 Jul 22)