Alpharetta, GA. — PrivOps, the leading open data fabric provider, is proud to announce that the US Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR-STTR) team has selected PrivOps in partnership with JJR Solutions, LLC in a competitive bid process, and PrivOps is officially under contract with the US Air Force. PrivOps has been tasked with creating a plan to leverage their patented data integration, automation, and application development technology to solve some of the US Air Force’s most pressing needs. (More about their recently granted patent here.) PrivOps has already obtained signed commitments from multiple organizations within the US Air Force to support PrivOps’ efforts operationalizing their platform for the Air Force’s needs. Here are some of the needs the Air Force has identified that PrivOps and JJR Solutions are working to address:

• Provide automated, policy-driven control of registering transactions on blockchain technologies (e.g., Hyperledger) to secure software chain of custody and detect malicious code manipulation

• Provide an event-driven service mesh that makes it possible to detect threats and other operational events and respond in near real-time (self-healing applications)

• Implement a distributed Enterprise Information Model (EIM) to support deployment of a data aggregation and transformation system in the cloud

• Enable a zero-trust model and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for automating data governance between modern and legacy systems to support new data analytics, multi-domain operations (MDO), and multi-domain command and control (MDC2) capabilities

• Create cross-domain data pipelines with microservices that incorporate best-of-breed, interchangeable commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) software solutions, making it possible to take advantage of new technologies as they become available

“We are delighted to be working with the US Air Force, and are extremely impressed by their commitment to innovation. We are also excited to be partnered with JJR Solutions, LLC in this effort and look forward to leveraging their world class expertise around data, integration, and governance. We look forward to helping the Us Air Force make our warfighters more effective, safe and secure as they protect our nation” - Kit Johnson, CEO, PrivOps

About the USAF SBIR-STTR Program

AFRL and AFWERX have partnered to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research process in an attempt to speed up the experience, broaden the pool of potential applicants and decrease bureaucratic overhead. Beginning in SBIR 18.2, and now in 19.3, the Air Force has begun offering 'Special' SBIR topics that are faster, leaner and open to a broader range of innovations.

Learn more about the US Air Force’s SBIR-STTR program at https://www.afsbirsttr.af.mil/

About PrivOps

The PrivOps Matrix is a next-generation data and applications integration platform designed to optimize the process of incorporating new technologies into data flows and integrating applications and data at scale. Proprietary point-to-point and service bus integration architectures requiring specialized talent create processes that don’t scale and are difficult to support; the PrivOps Matrix multi-cloud integration platform minimizes rework and maximizes re-use with an open, scalable, and agile hot-pluggable architecture that connects best-of-breed vendor and open source solutions to both modern and legacy applications and databases in a way that is much easier to support and maintain. As a result, US Air Force information technology will adapt faster to an evolving battlespace by being able to apply agile processes to integration while combining best-of-breed tools and emerging technologies with legacy systems.