A -- INFORMATIONAL SYNOPSIS FOR THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFORMATION ASSURANCE AND SURVIVABILITY PROGRAM (ATIAS) Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate (AFRL/SNZW). This is an Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate informational synopsis for the Advanced Technologies for Information Assurance and Survivability program (ATIAS). This notice is intended to alert the research community/industry to this upcoming program. This is not a request for information nor is it a solicitation and no proposals should be submitted in response to this informational synopsis. A Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) may later be issued that solicits proposals to meet various research needs for this program. This BAA, once issued, is anticipated to be open for period of two years (1) RESEARCH NEED: ATIAS seeks to identify and promote research topics that augment the DARPA Information Assurance and Survivability (IA&S) suite of programs. The overall objective of ATIAS is to identify, evaluate and study key technologies that are required to support the DARPA IA&S program suite. The anticipated research topics are: distributed security policies; certificate management; development of cyberscience; development of science-based metrics & methods for information system design/assessment; collaborative, mobil agents for all aspects of information assurance/cyberdefense; technologies/approaches to handling automated attacks; automatic, collaborative, multilayer intrusion detection; automated attack modeling; automatic response selection techniques; cyber situation awareness; attacker localization; multilayer defense; collaborative automatic reaction; course of action development; attack forensics; distributed cyber simulation, information system infrastructure which includes networking technologies/architectures that support interaction between humans and information systems as well as collaborative applications; human-information system interaction in distributed computing environments; command system applications; innovative technology/component integration; conceptual design and documentation; multimedia representations; technology transition; reference prototype implementations; technology visualization; distributive computing; and collaborative enterprise environment simulation. (2) BACKGROUND: The trend toward sensor-to-shooter integration, coalition operation, use of commercial products, and the increased use of mobile dynamic code significantly exacerbates the already difficult problem of providing information assurance for systems. The current nature of cyberspace provides attacking adversaries with significant advantages and permits them to accomplish their objectives without dominating the physical battlespace. The DARPA Information Assurance and Survivability (IA&S) research program is aimed at reducing vulnerabilities and giving commanders the insight and control needed to defend critical information systems. The IA&S program suite is a closely coordinated group of research programs consisting of the following efforts: Strategic Intrusion Assessment (SIA) Program; Intrusion Tolerant Systems (ITS); Fault Tolerant Networks (FTN) Program; Dynamic Coalitions (DC) Program; Information Assurance (IA) Program, Information Assurance Science and Engineering Tools (IASET) Program, Autonomic Information Assurance (AIA) Program; and Cyber Command and Control (CC2) Program. ATIAS is intended to focus research topics that investigate/study IA&S technology needs/issues/limitations/barriers. (3) In preparation for the upcoming BAA, synopsis notes #8 and #13 will apply to the acquisition. Full and Open Competition is anticipated and all responsible sources may submit proposals. Multiple contract awards and/or assistance instruments are anticipated with an estimated value of $300K or less with typical periods of performance of 6-9 months. PRIOR TO AWARD OF ANY CONTRACT, POTENTIAL OFFERORS MUST BE REGISTERED WITH THE CENTRAL CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION (CCR) (HTTP://WWW.CCR2000.COM/) AND BE ABLE TO RECEIVE PAYMENT VIA ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER (EFT). Potential offerors must also have a CAGE code http://www.ccr2000.com/faqs.html#10). It is anticipated awards may be either firm fixed price or cost-reimbursable type. Prior to award of a cost-reimbursable type contract, the offeror must have an adequate accounting system for determining costs IAW FAR 16.301-3. (4) Interested offerors may submit questions to AFRL TECHNICAL POINT OF CONTACT: Dr. Martin R. Stytz (AFRL/SNZW), email: atias@wpafb.af.mil or CONTRACTING POINT OF CONTACT: Mr. Noel E. Thompson (AFRL/SNKD), (937)255-5182. Do NOT send proposal information at this time. WEB: Click here to go to the Electronic Posting System Business, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=P&LocID=904. E-MAIL: click here to contact the contract negotiator via, Kathy Spainhower, Contract Negotiator, Phone (937) 255-5182. Posted 02/28/00 (W-SN429283).

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