MODIFICATION
A -- Application Communities (AC)
- Notice Date
- 9/14/2005
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- BAA05-51
- Response Due
- 9/5/2006
- Archive Date
- 9/20/2006
- Description
- Please note that in the second paragraph of the PIP PROGRAM OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION section, references to "51" have been changed to "xx" to correct a word processing error. The paragraph now reads correctly, as follows: The AC program seeks to develop a software execution infrastructure for existing COTS programs. This infrastructure will monitor and augment COTS application behavior so multiple active copies of application X running under the infrastructure behave as a self-aware Application-X-Community that: 1) collaboratively diagnoses problems (attacks/bugs/errors), 2) collaboratively responds to problems by generating appropriate configuration changes, patches, filters, etc., and 3) collaboratively generates a community-specific situation awareness gauge that predicts likelihood and timing of imminent problems. Potential formulations for success metrics are: 1) for collaborative diagnosis: xx% accurate problem identification, localization, and diagnosis in xx minutes; 2) for collaborative response: generate effective patches/filters in xx minutes and prevent xx% of harmful patch/filter side effects; and 3) for situational awareness: predict likelihood and timing of problems with xx% accuracy and provide both a local and community-wide measure of risk. In lieu of providing complete program success metrics up front, the AC program requests that AC researchers propose success metrics and the resources and time needed to achieve them. AC researchers are encouraged to provide several alternatives making rational tradeoffs between research ambition and project length. AC researchers should also identify where commercial investment in products and services is justified, in the event the proposed metrics are achieved. The AC program seeks a small number of teams where each team covers all the technical areas and must include an integrator that can bring the resulting technology to market if the research is successful. The program will test the hypothesis that a collaborative reliability and defense system for black-box COTS applications can be made mostly automatic and that application communities encompassing a greater diversity of users and environments are more resilient in the face of unanticipated errors and attacks.
- Record
- SN00895461-W 20050916/050914213030 (fbodaily.com)
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