Analygence has been awarded a task order from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to provide cybersecurity and privacy platform support.
The cyber intelligence companies announced Thursday that they will assist NIST in developing, testing and deploying web applications and web-based services, including a national vulnerability database, a national checklist program and cybersecurity and privacy reference tools.
Analygence will work with NIST to develop new ways to reduce uncertainty in measuring vulnerabilities and standardize vulnerability descriptions. This new approach will use a structured characterization format called a vulnerability ontology, or “Vulntology.”
The task order was awarded using an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for NIST Cybersecurity and Privacy Support Services.
The award is not the first collaboration between NIST and the Maryland-based cybersecurity company.
In June, Analygence was awarded a $125 million IDIQ contract to help process cyber vulnerabilities for NIST’s National Vulnerability Database. It and two other companies also won a $125 million contract through 2023 to provide cybersecurity and privacy support services to the Division of Computer Security, the Division of Applied Cybersecurity and other government agency divisions.
