U.S. Department of the Army
Army Research Laboratory
BAA DAAD
19-03-R-0017
Effective October 2003 – FY 2006
This Broad Area Announcement covers a spectrum of research
opportunities. Areas
specifically related to cybersecurity include:
1.3.
Wireless Information Assurance and Survivable Communications.
The ARL is interested in receiving proposals that address the
underlying science and technology for survivable and secure
communications over wireless networks, information infrastructure
protection, and survivable systems engineering. The objectives of the
research are to provide secure, survivable, and assured communications
over wireless networks, including highly mobile networks. Research
interests include, but should not be limited to, advancing the state
of the art in the following areas:
a. Research on automated vulnerability
assessment and intrusion detection tools and techniques.
b. Genetic algorithms used to spawn and
control intelligent agents for information assurance.
c. Information hiding in images and text
(steganography and watermarking).
d. Key distribution and security in a
mobile wireless ad hoc network.
e. Tools and techniques for automating
the creation and distribution of interoperable vulnerability knowledge
bases.
f. Tools and techniques for automated and
analysis and correlation of anomalies, probes, and detections from
multiple sites and to support post-incident forensic analysis.
g. Network management and visualization
tools that support real time planning and control of tactical nets as
well as tools for intrusion detection and forensic analysis in hybrid
networks.
1.4.
Sensor Network Communications. ARL is developing communications
devices and technologies for unattended sensors. These unattended
devices must work for long periods on limited battery power, use
Anti-Jam and Low Probability of Detection waveforms, perform ad-hoc
networking for autonomous self-healing routing, and provide network
security for authentication, data integrity and privacy. Areas of
interest include, but not limited to:
a. Ad-hoc network protocols
b. Security protocols
c. Robust AJ/LPD waveforms
d. Energy efficient modems
e. Energy efficient RF front-ends
f. Low power signal processing
g. Small broadband antenna
h. Forward-error-correction
1.7. Database Technology.
Explore ideas and prototype tools for advanced data management
concepts, including schema integration and data warehousing in a
standardized data environment, enable transparent access to multiple
heterogeneous databases, data mining and knowledge discovery in large
distributed databases, automated query formulation strategies using
data element thesaurus capabilities, integration of data encyclopedia
tools with data and process modeling tools, and automated support for
electronic records management and digital signature. Implement and
experiment with simultaneously and transparently accessing and
manipulating data from different databases, to include support for
imaging, multimedia, object-oriented, and traditional applications.
Investigate new ideas, and design, implement, and evaluate prototype
data management tools that support the Army Information Architecture,
Army modernization efforts, and the Army's Future Combat System (FCS).
1.8.
Software Engineering. In an open systems environment, develop concepts
for prototype components of software engineering technologies which
reduce software life-cycle costs, increase modularity and
interoperability, increase productivity of software design/development
and support organizations, and improve the quality, reliability and
reusability of delivered components, systems, and products. Explore
methodologies and technologies (e.g., object-oriented), which achieve
substantial improvement and cost reduction in software development,
requirements analysis and definition, software management, complexity,
and quality metrics, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance. This includes
tools and techniques (e.g., intelligent agents, wrappers) to aid in
migrating or interfacing legacy systems to Java-based or other
state-of-the-art systems. Topic includes any software engineering
technologies, which aid in the Army's efforts to digitize the
battlefield and its tactical command and control systems.
1.12.
Knowledge Fusion Research. ARL is interested in proposals for
developing in-depth knowledge and understanding of fundamental science
and technology elements required for knowledge fusion, especially for
the battlefield and homeland defense domains. A primary objective is
to investigate different facets of integration and fusion phenomena
with the goal of fusing together data from a wide variety of
heterogeneous sources in a way that distills the combined information
and adds intelligence to create knowledge. The data involved comes
from databases (relational, object, legacy, spatial, temporal, and
others), from knowledge bases, from semantic nets that include the
coming semantic Web, as well as from sensor data Knowledge fusion
involves fusing the data, applying and integrating various knowledge
producing transforms (e.g. threat indices) and inferences (e.g.
logical, nonmonotonic, hypothetical) as part of a comprehensive,
domain-specific system that provides focused and quickly identifiable
knowledge to the human use.
The
full BAA should be reviewed.
Deadlines:
None. Contact with
area research program directors is encouraged prior to the submission
of proposals.
URL to view this opportunity: http://www.arl.army.mil/aro/research/arl/fy06arlbaa.pdf
