Scott Nicholas
Galois has received a $2.7 million contract to help the Office of Naval Research develop methods for the U.S. Navy to increase the resiliency of the service branch’s real-time and embedded military software systems.
The company said Monday it seeks to utilize binary rewriting and software brittleness techniques to help the Navy reinforce control systems for cyber platforms as well as detect and address security threats.
“Our approach aims to improve overall system resilience by triggering built-in system recovery methods as quickly as possible,” said Tristan Ravitch, principal investigator of the Galois project.
Galois also plans to continue its ongoing research efforts towards the development of brittle software systems that will work to help defend Navy software systems from code injection attacks, memory corruption and overflow issues.
