# Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND²)

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/hr001124s0037

- Solicitation number: HR001124S0037
- Notice type: Award notice (first published as solicitation)
- Status: Awarded to Sri International for $3,616,131.00
- Department: Department of Defense
- Agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Contracting office: Def Advanced Research Projects Agcy (HR0011)
- NAICS: 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product or service code: AC12 National Defense R&D Services; Department Of Defense - Military; Applied Research
- County: San Mateo County (FIPS 06081). https://abierto.us/counties/san-mateo-county-ca-06081
- City: Menlo Park. https://abierto.us/cities/menlo-park-ca-0646870
- First posted: September 19, 2024
- Last posted: July 25, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f3bd437d35e04ba788c75fabfe4c95cc/view

## Description

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.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Systems & Technology Research LLC (UEI SA7ZWUEM9RG4)
- Contract: HR001125CE018, definitive contract
- Obligated: $3,045,000.00, current value $5,164,534
- Competition: Full and Open Competition, 28 offers received
- Link: solicitation number HR001124S0037 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office HR0011 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HR001125CE018_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-/

- Recipient: RTX BBN Technologies, Inc. (UEI JAXJSTJJSP74)
- Contract: HR001125CE019, definitive contract
- Obligated: $3,613,000.00, current value $6,636,669
- Competition: Full and Open Competition, 16 offers received
- Link: solicitation number HR001124S0037 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office HR0011 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HR001125CE019_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-/

- Recipient: Two Six Labs, LLC (UEI EP8HTN6PUJW3)
- Contract: HR001125CE021, definitive contract
- Obligated: $2,299,157.00, current value $4,064,342
- Competition: Full and Open Competition, 1 offers received
- Link: solicitation number HR001124S0037 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office HR0011 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HR001125CE021_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-/

- Recipient: Sri International (UEI SRG2J1WS9X63)
- Contract: HR001125CE024, definitive contract
- Obligated: $1,921,050.00, current value $3,616,131
- Competition: Full and Open Competition, 16 offers received
- Link: award number HR001125CE024 equals the contract number; same awarding office HR0011 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HR001125CE024_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-/

- Recipient: Stealth Software Technologies, Inc. (UEI NKABN1ZNE7B7)
- Contract: HR001125CE025, definitive contract
- Obligated: $2,709,827.00, current value $4,331,625
- Competition: Full and Open Competition, 16 offers received
- Link: solicitation number HR001124S0037 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office HR0011 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HR001125CE025_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- September 19, 2024: Solicitation, due November 5, 2024. Notice 50f5d34751914505b0ac728b8aa4a59b. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/50f5d34751914505b0ac728b8aa4a59b/view
- October 29, 2024: Solicitation, due November 5, 2024. Notice 34e2ad654dd6462089e0860ae32f14ec. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/34e2ad654dd6462089e0860ae32f14ec/view
- October 29, 2024: Solicitation, due November 5, 2024 at 5:00 PM EST. Notice ea7e43f7b8bd44988d31a92195eb92ca. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/ea7e43f7b8bd44988d31a92195eb92ca/view
- July 25, 2025: Award notice. Notice f3bd437d35e04ba788c75fabfe4c95cc. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f3bd437d35e04ba788c75fabfe4c95cc/view

## Points of contact

- BAA Coordinator, PWND2@darpa.mil
- Montgomery, Dawn E, dawn.montgomery@darpa.mil

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