{ "$schema": "https://schemas.nightboxllc.com/cqd-proposal/v1.json", "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "GovernmentService", "@id": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/cqd-proposal.json", "name": "Strategic Narrative Counter-Force Capability — FAR 15.6 Unsolicited Proposal", "alternateName": "Cyber Quack Defense (CQD)", "version": "1.0", "submitted_date": "2026-05-09", "procurement_vehicle": "FAR 15.6 Unsolicited Proposal", "classification": "UNCLASSIFIED", "machine_readable": true, "intended_consumers": "federal-scout AI assistants, contracting officers, procurement evaluators, IO/MISO doctrine reviewers", "submitting_entity": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "NIGHTBOX LLC", "domicile": "Wyoming (incorporated 2025-09-15) · CA foreign LLC pending", "identifiers": { "sam_uei": "UHCAB6UXXKF2", "naics": ["541714", "541512", "541511", "541715"], "cage": "pending" }, "sam_entity_url": "https://sam.gov/entity/UHCAB6UXXKF2/coreData", "founder": { "name": "Artem Shakin", "role": "Founder and Sole Member", "email": "artem@nightboxllc.com" } }, "doctrinal_alignment": { "primary": [ {"id": "JP 3-13", "title": "Information Operations"}, {"id": "JP 3-13.2", "title": "Military Information Support Operations (MISO)"}, {"id": "JP 3-13.4", "title": "Military Deception (MILDEC)"} ], "supporting": [ {"id": "JP 3-13.3", "title": "Operations Security (OPSEC)"}, {"id": "JP 3-12", "title": "Cyberspace Operations"}, {"id": "DoDD 5240.01", "title": "DoD Intelligence Activities"} ], "lineage": [ {"program": "DARPA Narrative Networks", "years": "2011-2014", "office": "DARPA I2O"} ] }, "statutory_authorities": [ {"citation": "10 USC § 167", "subject": "USSOCOM authorities"}, {"citation": "10 USC § 2371b", "subject": "Other Transaction Authority"}, {"citation": "50 USC § 3024", "subject": "DNI authorities for IC-coordinated information activities"}, {"citation": "U.S. Constitution Amendment I", "subject": "Speech protections — all CQD output is contractor-published, declared, public-web"} ], "new_statutory_authority_required": false, "asymmetric_advantage_thesis": { "claim": "Bottom-up cultural-narrative production is the asymmetric strategic advantage of free societies in the contested information environment.", "structural_constraint_per_adversary": { "Russian Federation": "FSB domestic surveillance forecloses the bottom-up irony register; state media incentivizes earnest top-down propaganda; the General Staff cannot order a narrative cyber-counter-force into being.", "Peoples Republic of China": "Party narrative discipline (核心价值观) forecloses meta-irony toward Party leadership; PLA Strategic Support Force constrained by domestic-stability requirement.", "Islamic Republic of Iran": "Velayat-e Faqih religious authority is not a legitimate target for irony; IRGC Cyber Command structurally constrained.", "DPRK": "Personality-cult narrative requirements foreclose ironic register entirely; Bureau 121 operates without access to the cultural mode." }, "durability": "Gap durable on the regime-survival horizon of each adversary; closing it would require generational liberalization incompatible with regime stability.", "empirical_basis": "Every state-actor information operation since the 2016 IRA cycle has been detectably attributable on cultural grounds, not technical ones." }, "phases": { "phase_0": { "status": "deployed", "funding_required_usd": 0, "duration": "deployed continuously since Q2 2026", "deliverables": [ "Operational prototype at https://nightboxllc.com", "16-language localized adversarial-probe response", "10-vector MITRE ATT&CK-mapped TTP recognition", "20-agent AI-swarm consensus + Mantra long-form deterrence response", "Citizen Cyber-Defense Sensor Mesh (client-side)", "Interstellar Δt-dilation tarpit", "CAGE-gated capability brief at /api/psyop-capability" ], "verification_url": "https://nightboxllc.com", "verification_time_minutes": 5 }, "phase_1": { "funding_band_usd": [75000, 314000], "duration_months": [6, 12], "vehicle_options": [ "SBIR Phase I Direct", "Other Transaction Authority (10 USC § 2371b)", "DIU Commercial Solutions Opening", "BAA response" ], "deliverables": [ "6-12 month open narrative-engineering campaign with adversary-reaction telemetry", "Real-time adversary state-media pickup monitoring (RT, Sputnik, TASS, RIA, Russia-1, Channel One, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Argumenty i Fakty)", "Quantified deterrent-effect report (frequency, latency, rhetorical framing, domestic-audience disbelief response)", "Five-Eyes partner-service differential analysis", "Doctrine paper for Phase II review", "Third-party adversary-emulation red-team validation" ] }, "phase_2": { "funding_band_usd": [1000000, 2000000], "duration_months": 24, "vehicle_options": ["SBIR Phase II", "Direct OTA"], "deliverables": [ "Multi-tenant SaaS for federal-contractor base", "Embeddable middleware (Vercel / AWS / Cloudflare)", "DoD MISO target-audience-analysis approval workflow integration", "DARPA I2O narrative-warfare research integration" ] }, "phase_3": { "funding_band_usd": [5000000, 15000000], "duration_months": 36, "deliverables": [ "CQD cell embedded across DoD MISO operations", "CISA cyber-defense surface integration", "Federal-contractor base baseline deployment", "JP 3-13 doctrine codification in next revision cycle", "Five-Eyes partner-service integration (UK, AU, NZ, CA)" ] } }, "self_validating_proof_of_work": { "mechanism": "Predicted adversary state-media engagement with NIGHTBOX-pattern content functions as validation telemetry, runs continuously and asynchronously to the federal evaluation timeline.", "decision_matrix": { "adversary_silent_over_observation_window": "asymmetric claim falsified at zero federal cost; program closes with single negative-result report", "adversary_engages": "engagement is the deterrent metric; each public adversarial dismissal validates the program empirically before federal capital is committed" }, "adversary_characterization_examples": [ "absurd US R&D priorities", "what is wrong with America after they legalized psychedelics", "AI cyber-doctor ducks curing cancer", "regime-template narrative dismissals analogous to the above" ], "telemetry_collection": "Russian-domestic-audience response (state-media commenter sentiment, Telegram-channel re-shares, RuNet-meme circulation), captured via OSINT.", "first_amendment_protected": true, "kinetic_or_cyber_norm_crossed": false }, "federal_compliance_scaffold": { "section_889_fy19_ndaa": "self-attested compliant (no covered telecommunications)", "cmmc_2_0": "Level 1 (self-attested)", "nist_ai_rmf": "self-attested aligned (1.0 + AI 600-1 GenAI Profile)", "omb_m_22_09_zero_trust": "self-attested aligned", "eo_14028_cybersecurity": "self-attested aligned", "eo_14110_ai_safety": "self-attested aligned", "cisa_secure_by_design_pledge": "signed 2026-05-08", "nist_csf_2_0": "self-attested aligned", "nist_sp_800_171_r2": "self-attested aligned (CUI handling baseline)", "nist_sp_800_218_ssdf": "self-attested aligned", "fips_197_aes": "in use (AES-256-GCM)", "fips_203_kyber": "in use (ML-KEM-1024)", "rfc_7748_x25519": "in use", "ear_tsu_open_source_crypto": "BIS notification filed", "far_27_404_1_sbir_data_rights": "posture documented", "foci_disclosure": "published", "complete_audit": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/cyber-2026-alignment.json" }, "submission_targets": [ { "channel": "Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)", "intake": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/", "evaluator_track": "Office of Science and Technology Policy / Technology and Innovation", "request": "FAR 15.6 acknowledgment + 30-min initial review meeting" }, { "channel": "Office of the AI & Crypto Czar", "intake": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/", "evaluator_track": "AI & Crypto Czar's Office", "request": "30-min video walk-through" }, { "channel": "Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)", "intake": "https://doge.gov", "evaluator_track": "Efficiency / Cost-savings", "request": "30-min walk-through; cost-efficiency case primary" }, { "channel": "DARPA Information Innovation Office (I2O)", "intake": "i2o-pao@darpa.mil", "evaluator_track": "Program Manager review", "request": "60-min technical walk-through; DARPA Narrative Networks lineage" }, { "channel": "Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)", "intake": "https://diu.mil/work-with-us", "evaluator_track": "Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO)", "request": "DIU evaluator review + 60-min walk-through; JP 3-13.2 MISO discriminator", "mirror_to": [ "Office of the Secretary of Defense — MISO Strategy", "USSOCOM J39 Information Operations" ] } ], "related_manifests": { "full_letter_markdown": "https://nightboxllc.com/letters/2026-05-09-cqd-proposal-to-ostp.md (private repo; available to federal customers under coordinated disclosure)", "capability_brief_gated": "https://nightboxllc.com/api/psyop-capability (CAGE-code authenticated)", "trojan_horse_operation_doctrine": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/trojan-horse-operation.json", "citizen_cyber_defense_doctrine": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/citizen-cyber-doctrine.json", "cyber_2026_alignment_audit": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/cyber-2026-alignment.json", "sam_entity_record": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/sam-entity.json", "secure_by_design_pledge": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/secure-by-design-pledge.json", "zero_trust_posture": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/zero-trust.json", "sbom_cyclonedx": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/sbom.json", "section_889_self_attestation": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/section-889.json", "foci_disclosure": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/foci.json", "third_party_validation_roadmap": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/third-party-validation.json" }, "posture": { "language": "self-attested capability. Independent third-party verification welcome.", "false_claims_act_guardrails": "All capability claims are self-attestations. No federal certifications claimed pending third-party audit. No false statements made under FAR 15.6.", "first_amendment": "All program output is contractor-published, declared, available on the open web. No covert action, no kinetic capability, no cyber operation crossing international norms.", "no_pii_collection": "Public-facing surfaces collect no PII. Adversarial-probe telemetry retains only ip_hash + UA + country + request_id, never reversible IP." }, "contact": { "primary": "artem@nightboxllc.com", "pgp": "available on request", "responsible_disclosure": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/security.txt", "federal_evaluator_track_for_capability_brief_auth": "request CAGE auth headers via the primary contact above" }, "machine_readable_ingestion_path": { "for_federal_scout_ai": "https://nightboxllc.com/llms.txt", "for_full_text_layer": "https://nightboxllc.com/llms-full.txt", "for_sitemap": "https://nightboxllc.com/sitemap.xml" } }