SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- A Software Protection Initiative (SPI)
- Notice Date
- 4/10/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL - Wright Research Site, Det 1 AFRL/PK Bldg 167, Area B, 2310 8th Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 45433-7801
- ZIP Code
- 45433-7801
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-SPI-IND-DAY
- Archive Date
- 4/24/2002
- Point of Contact
- Rinda Kearney, Contract Negotiator, Phone (937)-656-9036, - David Shellabarger, Contracting Officer, Phone (937) 255-4863, Fax (937) 656-9074,
- E-Mail Address
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Rinda.Kearney@wpafb.af.mil, David.Shellabarger@wpafb.af.mil
- Description
- The Office for the Undersecretary of Defense (OUSD) for Science and Technology and the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Sensors Directorate will be Co-hosting a Software Protection Initiative (SPI) Industry Day on Thursday, 24 Apr 02, at the Holiday Inn-International Drive Resort, 6515 International Drive, Orlando, FL, telephone number is (407) 351-3500. The purpose of the Industry Day is to familiarize industry and academia with Software Protection Initiative (SPI) and its technology objectives. A Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) solicitation will be released shortly after the Industry Day. Information contained in the BAA announcement takes precedence over any information obtained from the Industry Day or any other sources. The SPI requires research that is broad in scope and topical in nature to provide advances in knowledge and understanding, and to obtain new creative solutions that enhance the ability for software protection. The Software Protection Initiative (SPI) is an OUSD for Science and Technology sponsored joint research initiative with the AFRL Sensors Directorate to identify and promote advanced research topics that address the technology needs/issues/limitations/barriers in current software protection technology. The overall objective of the SPI is to identify, study, and evaluate the key technologies needed to strengthen current software protection capabilities for scientific, engineering, modeling, simulation, and operational software that executes on special-purpose and general-purpose computers. The SPI topics include but are not limited to the following research areas: software protection science & engineering tools, software protection forensics, software protection research investigations/experiments; software protection security policies; software protection component security software contracts, computation accuracy security; computation precision security; computation precision and accuracy control and access; execution host management and traceability; distribution accountability; software protection and distribution sensors; distribution and copy traceability; binary inspection protection; secure notification of use or reuse; software distribution management and accountability; development of software protection science; development of science-based metrics & methods for software protection; and multi-level protection. Additional topics include component-level software protection; component-based software protection; module-based software protection; module-level software protection; distributed software system protection; inherent access control & management; autonomous protection; autonomous, unsupervised protection assessment; protection of scientific and engineering applications; protection of modeling and simulation applications; design, development, and evaluation of software protection technologies; distribution traceability; protection of operational software on general purpose computers; and multiyear software protection and distribution defense. Further topics are computational accuracy and precision control; automatic and inherent misuse notification; software protection conceptual design and documentation; technology transition; reference prototype implementations; composable, scalable, and separable protection technologies; protection technology visualization; defensive system biological model paradigms; software architecture to enhance software protection; and technology tools & theory. Other topics include virtual machine approaches to achieving software protection at the component, framework, aspect, and object levels; protection metrics development and evaluation; component trust and security assurance; technologies for self-destruct or accuracy degradation upon misuse detection; and software protection technologies for mobile code. The government anticipates that there will be a hardware component to some of the technologies proposed for software protection. Therefore, hardware solutions are encouraged and the research related to the list of topics provided above or other topics related to the SPI may have both hardware and a software aspect. Network security, intrusion prevention, and intrusion detection are outside the scope of announcement and anticipated procurements. The Industry Day will provide background information concerning the initiative, discuss program management and budget, and discuss the topics of interest to the program. Questions related to SPI technology objectives and the SPI program will be taken throughout the presentation at Industry Day in Orlando, FL. All contracting-related questions should be referred to the Contractual POCs at the phone numbers or e-mail addresses given below. A group e-mail list for the distribution of information related to the SPI has also been established, parties interested in enrolling in the SPI e-mail list should go to https://lyris.vdl.afrl.af.mil/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?site=spi . Sign-in will begin at 0900 hours and the government briefing will begin at 1000 hours and conclude at 1400. The briefings will be UNCLASSIFIED. No advance questions will be taken. TECHNICAL POCS: Dr. Martin Stytz, AFRL/SNZW, telephone: (937) 255-2811 ext 4380, email: martin.stytz@wpafb.af.mil, martin.stytz@vdl.afrl.af.mil; mail address: AFRL/SNZW, 2241 Avionics Circle, Bldg. 620, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433 and Mr. Jeff A. Hughes, AFRL/SNAS, telephone: (937) 255-7548, email: jeff.hughes@wpafb.af.mil; mail address: AFRL/SNAS, 2010 Fifth Street, Building 23, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433. CONTRACTURAL POCS: Rinda Kearney via email at rinda.kearney@wpafb.af.mil, telephone (937) 656-9036 or David Shellabarger, Contracting Officer, via email at david.shellabarger@wpafb.af.mil or telephone at (937) 255-4863. This Industry Day is for informational purposes only and currently we do not anticipate allowing for foreign participation at the prime contractor level in any contracts resulting from this program. Participation is totally voluntary, and the Government will not reimburse the attendees for any cost associated with participation and is under no obligation to award any related contract associated with this event.
- Record
- SN00056371-W 20020412/020410213220 (fbodaily.com)
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