JERICHO SECURITY, INC.
Department of Defense · STTR
AI-Readiness Score
15/19
AI / ML Relevance
8/9
Problem Framing
4/5
Awardee Quality
3/5
Award
$1,999,660
Award amount
—
Award date
FA700025P0045
PIID
Awardee
2
Total awards
$3,793,094
Total $ won
14.0/19
Avg AI score
Description
TOPIC NO. AFX23E-TPCSO1 STTR PHASE II PROPOSAL F2-19013 - GENERATIVE AI-DRIVEN DEFENSE AND MACHINE LEARNING AGAINST ADVANCED PHISHING ATTACKS TACFI
Score Rationale
AI/ML relevance scores 8 because the award explicitly names 'generative AI' and 'machine learning' as core technical approaches against a specific threat class (phishing), and this is clearly the primary deliverable, not a secondary feature. Problem framing scores 4: the threat (advanced phishing) is concrete and operationally relevant, but the description lacks specificity on end-user context, deployment environment, or success metrics—it reads as a capability name rather than a problem statement. Awardee quality scores 3 due to ambiguity: 'Jericho Security, Inc.' has military-flavored naming ('Jericho') but lacks the boilerplate of legacy primes; STTR pathway suggests smaller/emerging firm, but the company name pattern is not distinctively modern or startup-like, preventing higher confidence.