Where a Force of One becomes a Force of Many
Where a Force of One becomes a Force of Many
Please review our menu of the Force Labs open Innovation and Passion Projects. Participation in these active projects is open to all lab members.
The projects have been adopted by Force Labs for sponsorship. Each is an active Colorado based company that is being developed for various socially impacting outcomes.
https://www.Evolvhub.com - Evolv is a Colorado based LLC seeking veteran and student members. This new and innovative company creates a franchise model for the future of transportation. The business model is open source and published on evolvhub.com. This project focuses on grant filings, acceleration models for regulatory filings and approvals, and real estate research. The goal is to create a new safe and secure method for travel using emerging technologies.
GunMon is a product for the firearms industry that provides a voluntary technical consumer protection and control product. This technology adapts current patents that is licensed to Force Labs for innovation and production. The prototype under the patents is already available. Innovation will adapt this technology for new and expanded use cases that are available to lab members participating in this active project. WeaponWatcher is mobile application and public safety service for GunMon.
The projects have been adopted by Force Labs for sponsorship. Each is an active Colorado based company that is being developed for strategic growth outcomes.
Code Origin is an actively sponsored project by Force Labs. Grey market products such as GPTHero.me have been developed by Force Labs members. Force Labs is actively advising these members on commercial applications of this and similar technology and testing prototypes for commercial application.
This Force Labs sponsored project seeks to create a comparative model for AI and Chat Bots that analyzes their various responses within several pre-defined parameters. The comparative model will be used to identify AI and the bot’s knowledge (access to data and resources), intelligence (data aggregation and presentation), preferences (programmed parameters), and adaptability (interactive machine learning).
AI learning models require significant analytical analysis of multiple AI services and chat bots with ongoing interaction. This research publishes this ongoing analysis of chat bots in real time and differentiates the AI language models based on how they are adapting and maturing over time with ongoing human interaction and access to more resources.
AI content is not easy to spot. By the end of 2025, researchers believe that over 90% of what we see on the web will be AI generated content. Force Labs has sponsored a project to analyze content with better efficiency and accuracy than other available products with a specific commercial application in mind.
These projects have been adopted by Force Labs for sponsorship. These projects fall within the Force Labs core mission of cyber defense innovation for Cyber Defense Center.
Micr0wav3 is a mobile pentesting kit designed to scan and test microwave communications. This specialized security testing capability will look at open and encrypted microwave wireless signals and stations for weaknesses and security control testing. Castle Rock Microwave is sponsoring this new capability to ensure it is build within FCC rules and regulations.
Specialized security testing of EV charging stations and EV technology. This is an approach and a potential product suite for a new and evolving industry. Force Labs supports the future of travel with safe and secure outcomes. As an industry participant, Force Labs has adopted this project for sponsorship.
Manufacturers testing for robotics. This is both an approach and a technology suite. Robotics manufacturers are seeking third party validation and specialized testing for new and emerging robotics products. In most cases, this is currently conducted in house. Once the methodology is adopted, the Cyber Defense Center will set certification criteria for ongoing testing with manufacturers.
W@t3r Slides is a specialized testing capability for water operational technology (OT) and control systems. The testing is scoped to include current cyber security control systems such as firewalls and IPS systems.
The projects in this section are part of the Cyber Defense Center research institute, Defense Center. The Cyber Defense Center performs research activities to benefit and educate the community. Researchers can test security flaws, reverse engineer suspicious code, test collective defense capabilities, or publish statistical trend reports to help members prioritize annual defense initiatives. Research drives innovation projects and over the past 10 years the following innovations have emerged:
force4.org - Force4 is the CYBER DEFENSE CENTER regional collegiate competition CTF program. Sponsored veteran teams are also welcome. This innovation initiative is designed to provide a new and innovative CTF that uses real world enterprise defense capabilities in a hybrid cloud simulation. Force4 is intended to work in sponsorship with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
breachreports.org - Breach Reports are essential when researching, monitoring, and cataloging threats to communities, critical infrastructure, and the country. This innovation project focuses on creating a new catalog of historical breach reports by aggregating data from several sources with new and innovative criteria for analytics.
Defensecenter.org - The Defense Center is the Cyber Defense Center research arm for defense force posture capability testing and incubation of new defense program sources and methods. New sources and methods subject to research under this innovation project include domain defense and county defense approaches.
Alertnetwork.org - The CYBER DEFENSE CENTER is deigning a new public/private sector alert network for cyber defense force posture readiness alerts, news, and member advisories. This Information Sharing service includes several partners to provide members with threat intelligence that surpasses open-source providers and current sector information security and analysis centers.
Similar to CISA tabletop exercises, Secure Workforce Awareness Training (SWAT) allows our members to use gamified training, simulations, and innovative awareness campaigns to engage employees in new and more effective ways. The goal is to battle-ready your workforce against emerging cyber threats for a safe and secure experience. This is an open source innovation initiative with a current prototype to work from.
The CYBER DEFENSE CENTER force posture readiness model allows companies and communities to identify readiness escalations and triggers. This is intended to augment existing geo-political plan activation criteria used to transition cyber defense priorities and defensive strategies. This innovation project builds upon these publications for future use in various sectors.
These projects were transitioned from the CYBER DEFENSE CENTER DroneWarz program, a program that was developed to bring hacking games to technical conferences across the United States. Before losing research funding in 2020, DroneWarz was the official drone and robotics hacking village of DefCon, the worlds largest hacking conference. See https://www.dronewarz.org for more information on this innovative and unique program.
This CTF game prototype was awarded at DefCon 27. A $1000 award was granted to the lab participants that completed the prototype, which is available at Force Labs Castle Rock to play and analyze for full scale builds. Sponsors for this game include Drone Racing League, Mult-GP, Fatshark, Drone Pilot School, and Ettus Research. Force Labs has formally adopted this game for lab sponsorship. This game provides a new interactive drone and robotics hacking experience. 25 Flags are already designed.
This Force Labs sponsored project builds a new game for DefCon R00tz, CornCon, and other national technical youth programs. This new tiny whoop game is conceived of and intended to become a subscribed STEM game for schools nationwide. The game is designed. This new prototype game, safety rules, and a demonstration is currently planned for DefCon R00tz 2024.
This Force Labs sponsored project builds a field deployable Ground Control and Network Command Station. Design and build a using a RF Mesh network and custom command station. The command station is currently 60% complete. The command station leverages Hak5 Pineapple and STORM platforms that are remotely deployable with a 2-3 mile range.
The first Dronewarz wireless assault drone, Skyjacker, was built and demonstrated at DefCon using a Hak5 pineapple. SkyJacker II was developed with a custom payloadz package developed by Dronewarz using a Raspberry PI 3b+ with a Kali disto tailored for drone and wireless hacking. At Defcon 27, this distro was being migrated to the Storm when research halted during Covid. SkyJacker III is a back to drawing board build using a stealth and custom ArduPilot platform with onboard drone/wifi payloadz.
Please note that this menu is subject to change and that other Innovation projects may be submitted anytime for sponsorship consideration. An active project does not necessarily mean that active members or participants are assigned. If you see something of interest or want to sponsor a project or otherwise participate, please connect with us.
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