Federal Bureau of Investigation, Room 6875 JEH-FBI Building, 10th & Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20535

D -- UTILITY SOFTWARE TESTING AND BENCHMARKING SOL RFP-6881 POC Kenton D. Jenkins, Contracting Officer, 202/324/5725. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has a requirement to develop utility software. The FBI Laboratory is responsible for the forensic examination of computer related evidence; specifically, the media upon which information is stored. The purpose of these examinations is to retrieve the data stored on the evidence machine and present it in a paper or electronic format. Utility software is used which is both commercially available and custom designed and written by law enforcement agencies. In the course of these examinations, this utility software is used for six general processes: 1) Write Blockers - Prevent all write operations to a hard disk to avoid changing the contents of the disk; (2) Search Software - Search a piece of media for a string or series of strings; (3) List Files - Provide a listing of all files on a piece of media; (4) Examiner Disk - View and extract data from physical media including slack space, reserved space, and hidden space; (5) Deleted Files - Recover deleted or erased files; and (6) Image Backup and Restore - Perform a sector by sector dump and restore of one media to another. Under a previous contract a test plan for processes one through four was developed. In addition, some utility software was tested for processes one through three. The FBI Laboratory seeks to continue this program to include developing test plans structured according to the ANSI/IEEE specifications Std. 829-1983, ''An American National Standard IEEE Standard for Software Test Documentation'', where applicable, for processes five and six and testing of additional software for all six processes. The period of performance to complete the above will be for twelve (12) months. It is contemplated that a firm-fixed price, completion type contract will be awarded as a result of this solicitation. Requests for the solicitation must be submitted in writing, referencing the solicitation number, within fifteen (15) days of publication of this synopsis to the POC listed above--Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. (0202)

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