Cybersecurity Satellite Platform

The Department of National Defence is seeking innovative research and development solutions to provide a flat satellite platform for cybersecurity experimentations. The agency requires a platform to develop and demonstrate novel cybersecurity protection mechanisms using more than two payloads. Each additional payload must increase the realism and expand the cybersecurity validation space to enhance the technical merit of the proposal. The requested platform must feature a hardware layout that allows for a single technician plug-and-play connection of cyber instrumentation, such as oscilloscopes or other signal analyzers, and testing. It must include a telemetry, tracking, and command module accessible via a wired interface, alongside a modular, reconfigurable, and reprogrammable software architecture that supports software or firmware patching and hardware component replacement. The agency also requires administrative capabilities for health monitoring, bus input and output, configuration, and secure software updates via a wired interface. The agency requires a remote-access environment to support cybersecurity competitions and training exercises through controlled user access, scenario orchestration, safe experimentation, and instrumented telemetry for learning and validation. The physical platform must measure no more than 2.5 meters by 2.5 meters of laboratory floor space. The contract period will span one year, and the performance of the work will take place offsite. Eligibility is restricted to onshore bidders located in Canada only. Bidders must submit their proposals digitally via email or through the online portal. The agency is looking for proposals to determine the budget, and the evaluation will consider the innovation and technical merit of the proposed multi-payload configuration.