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Lynx TACFI

AFWERX · AFWERX TACFI · AFWERX

AI-Readiness Score
14/25
Pathway Speed
4/5
Timeline Realism
3/5
Problem Framing
3/5
AI / ML Fit
1/5
Award + Transition
3/5

Award

$3,600,000
Award ceiling
TERASENSE, INC.
Awardee
Posted June 24, 2024

Description

TeraSense is building Lynx, a robust, microservices based security solution to enable NIST 800-171 compliance and replace the legacy SCAP Compliance Checker (SCC).  The SCAP Compliance Checker (SCC) is leveraged by Space Systems Command (SSC) security professionals as their primary tool for scanning the SSC environment and identifying vulnerabilities and misconfiguration through established Security Technical Implementation Guideline (STIG) benchmarks. As the SCC becomes a solution unavailable for use by SSC engineers, their security team is left without an important capability which limits their ability to secure the SSC environment. Accordingly, the SSC requires a security solution which conducts risk assessments, identifies and addresses vulnerabilities, and prevents future exposure through proactive hardening. The solution, codenamed Lynx, enables RMF compliance with automated processes in a user-friendly solution.

Score Rationale

AFWERX TACFI is a legitimate fast-track OT instrument, earning a strong pathway score, but the core problem is NIST 800-171/RMF compliance automation and STIG scanning — essentially IT modernization to replace a legacy tool, not a genuinely AI-shaped problem. AI/ML scores a 1 because 'automated processes' for compliance checking is rule-based orchestration, not perception, language modeling, or anomaly detection in any meaningful sense; AI appears grafted on at best. Award ceiling of $3.6M lands in the mid-range with TACFI's implicit transition pathway to STRATFI or program of record, but no explicit production transition is named in the description.

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