Award notice, first published as solicitation
Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND²)
HR001124S0037
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Def Advanced Research Projects Agcy. Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology).
Awarded
$3,045,000.00 obligated so far on USAspending
Description
As published on SAM.gov with the solicitation of October 29, 2024.
PWND² will develop formal models of emergent communication pathways to fundamentally improve how we deploy and detect robust and resilient hidden networks in the real world. The program will pair software-defined networking approaches with formal methods to provide provable privacy and performance guarantees for hidden communication systems at meaningful scale.
The contract, on USAspending
Federal procurement data the awarding office reported to FPDS, matched to this solicitation by its number.
- Recipient
- Systems & Technology Research LLC
- UEI
- SA7ZWUEM9RG4
- CAGE
- 65L89
- Vendor location
- Woburn, MA
- Contract
- HR001125CE018, definitive contract
- Obligated
- $3,045,000.00, current value $5,164,534
- Actions
- 6 between July 24, 2025 and January 20, 2026
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition, 28 offers received
- Set-aside reported
- No Set Aside Used.
- Described as
- Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (Pwnd2) Stage 2.
- Match
- solicitation number HR001124S0037 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office HR0011 (high confidence)
- Record
- USAspending award page
- Recipient
- RTX BBN Technologies, Inc.
- UEI
- JAXJSTJJSP74
- CAGE
- 3U6L5
- Vendor location
- Cambridge, MA
- Contract
- HR001125CE019, definitive contract
- Obligated
- $3,613,000.00, current value $6,636,669, potential $9,379,534
- Actions
- 5 between July 24, 2025 and January 20, 2026
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition, 16 offers received
- Set-aside reported
- No Set Aside Used.
- Described as
- Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (Pwnd2) Stage 2 - RTX BBN
- Match
- solicitation number HR001124S0037 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office HR0011 (high confidence)
- Record
- USAspending award page
- Recipient
- Two Six Labs, LLC
- UEI
- EP8HTN6PUJW3
- CAGE
- 4AS04
- Vendor location
- Arlington, VA
- Contract
- HR001125CE021, definitive contract
- Obligated
- $2,299,157.00, current value $4,064,342, potential $7,244,552
- Actions
- 5 between July 24, 2025 and January 20, 2026
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition, 1 offer received
- Set-aside reported
- No Set Aside Used.
- Described as
- Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (Pwnd2)
- Match
- solicitation number HR001124S0037 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office HR0011 (high confidence)
- Record
- USAspending award page
- Recipient
- Sri International
- UEI
- SRG2J1WS9X63
- CAGE
- 03652
- Vendor location
- Menlo Park, CA
- Contract
- HR001125CE024, definitive contract
- Obligated
- $1,921,050.00, current value $3,616,131
- Actions
- 5 between July 22, 2025 and January 20, 2026
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition, 16 offers received
- Set-aside reported
- No Set Aside Used.
- Described as
- Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (Pwnd2)
- Match
- award number HR001125CE024 equals the contract number; same awarding office HR0011 (high confidence)
- Record
- USAspending award page
- Recipient
- Stealth Software Technologies, Inc.
- UEI
- NKABN1ZNE7B7
- CAGE
- 4LT47
- Vendor location
- Los Angeles, CA
- Contract
- HR001125CE025, definitive contract
- Obligated
- $2,709,827.00, current value $4,331,625
- Actions
- 6 between July 23, 2025 and March 16, 2026
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition, 16 offers received
- Set-aside reported
- No Set Aside Used.
- Described as
- Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (Pwnd2)
- Match
- solicitation number HR001124S0037 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office HR0011 (high confidence)
- Record
- USAspending award page
Publications
Every notice SAM.gov issued under this solicitation number, oldest first. Each is a separate record on SAM.
September 19, 2024
Solicitation
Due November 5, 2024. SAM.gov, notice 50f5d34751914505b0ac728b8aa4a59b
October 29, 2024
Solicitation
Due November 5, 2024. SAM.gov, notice 34e2ad654dd6462089e0860ae32f14ec
October 29, 2024
Solicitation
Due November 5, 2024 at 5:00 PM EST. SAM.gov, notice ea7e43f7b8bd44988d31a92195eb92ca
July 25, 2025
Award notice, originally solicitation
Awarded to SRI INTERNATIONAL Menlo Park for $3,616,131. SAM.gov, notice f3bd437d35e04ba788c75fabfe4c95cc
Points of contact
- BAA CoordinatorPWND2@darpa.mil
- Montgomery, Dawn Edawn.montgomery@darpa.mil
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