SBIR-STTR Award

Enterprise Resiliency Improvement Process - Forward Networks and Artificial Intelligence Integration
Award last edited on: 10/21/2024

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
USDA
Total Award Amount
$1,749,771
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
AF192-001
Principal Investigator
Chris Price

Company Information

The Kenific Group Inc

3975 Fair Ridge Drive Suite 250n
Fairfax, VA 22033
   (646) 584-5014
   N/A
   www.kenificgroup.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 10
County: Fairfax

Phase I

Contract Number: 2023
Start Date: ----    Completed: 4/3/2023
Phase I year
2023
Phase I Amount
$1
Direct to Phase II

Phase II

Contract Number: N/A
Start Date: 2/10/2025    Completed: 4/3/2023
Phase II year
2023
(last award dollars: 1729501089)
Phase II Amount
$1,749,770

Implement and Install SBIR Enterprise Resiliency Improvement Process (ERIP) AI module for USN Forward networks and provide data reconciliation, reporting, and process analysis to give PEO D readable, digitized, asset technical information while maintaining and tracking configuration control.

Benefit:
- Provide data reconciliation, reporting, and process analysis to give PEO D readable, digitized, asset technical information. - Adaptation and advancement of SBIR ERIP AI/ML capability to facilitate application integration and data mapping of Forward Networks outputs to auto-populate the Navy Asset Management Module. - AI/ML automated data scanning and import capability to identify variances in asset data from Forward Networks and other ServiceNow asset source systems and provide engineering and reporting support as necessary to develop analysis. - Validation of material, parts, system components, firmware, and software versioning as well as review, validate, and/or develop asset configuration baseline of the overall system, subsystem, or component and necessary to document and maintain configuration control. - Provides comprehensive assessment of the existing business, data, application and technology layers of the existing in-place and proposed Enterprise Architecture to establish the necessary documentation to effectively deploy SBIR AI/OCR solution to assist in mapping Navy Forward Network data into the Navy Asset Management system. - Provides analyses and concept development to identify, assess, and implement potential mitigating strategies, technologies, and concepts for known or emerging capability gaps. - Provides identification of potential solutions shall include research of existing threats, actual and planned protection strategies, and counter-threat capabilities.

Keywords:
configuration, installation, Artificial Intelligence, Data reconciliation, Technical Information, Forward Networks