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DoD Communities of Interest: Cyber Subject: Expeditionary Cyber Due Date: September 30, 2021 12:00 AM local Eastern time Government Organization: Office of Naval Research (ONR) Description: The Expeditionary Cyber program aims to provide the Marines, SOCOM, and Expeditionary Navy customers with state-of-the-art solutions to both defend assets and defeat adversaries within the cyberspace domain. Traditional cyber solutions have focused on enterprise infrastructures, oftentimes housed in permanent, secured facilities. Advanced solutions have migrated to mobile commercial platforms but do not always take into account mobilized, active adversaries—nor environments with disruptive, intermittent, and latent communications. The Expeditionary Cyber program will focus on two thrust areas to complete its mission: Cyber-Assured Expeditionary Systems and Full-Spectrum Cyber Effects. The Cyber-Assured Expeditionary Systems thrust area will mature and discover new technology to build security into the unique environment of expeditionary tactical systems. The Full Spectrum Effects thrust area seeks to identify and characterize relevant cyber systems (physical layer, logical layer, cyber-persona layer) within the Expeditionary Cyber battlespace and employ appropriate actions to maximize operational effectiveness. Research Concentration Areas: 1. Automated hardening of mobile systems 2. Low latency, add-on security technologies for expeditionary forces 3. Formal methods for secure software development for mobile devices 4. Identity-based keying 5. FPGA-accelerated cryptography 6. Memory exploitation defense for mobile devices 7. Software-defined networking 8. Defense-in-depth security for deployable architectures 9. Reverse engineering for mobile systems 10. Assured machine learning in mobile device applications 11. Supply chain integrity and provenance 12. Cyber persona analytics Research Challenges and Opportunities: - Develop automated tools to perform static, dynamic, and binary analyses in Expeditionary embedded systems - Study the properties of emergent behavior for networked devices in Expeditionary Cyberspace - Develop innovative fuzzing approaches for RF protocols - Develop continuous monitoring tools in a distributed, intermittent and latent environment - Develop an Expeditionary Cyber system of systems risk assessment tools Program Contact Information: Name: Dr. Waleed Barnawi Title: Program Officer Department: Code 311 Email for Questions: waleed.barnawi@navy.mil How to Submit: For detailed application and submission information for this research topic, please see our Funding Opportunities page and refer to broad agency announcement (BAA) No. N00014-21-S-B001. Contracts: All white papers and full proposals for contracts must be submitted through FedConnect; instructions are included in the BAA. Grants: All white papers for grants must be submitted through FedConnect, and full proposals for grants must be submitted through grants.gov; instructions are included in the BAA. |
Office of Naval Research (ONR): Expeditionary Cyber
SUSPENSE DATE: 30 September 2021. The Expeditionary Cyber program aims to provide the Marines, SOCOM, and Expeditionary Navy customers with state-of-the-art solutions to both defend assets and defeat adversaries within the cyberspace domain. Traditional cyber solutions have focused on enterprise infrastructures, oftentimes housed in permanent, secured facilities. Advanced solutions have migrated to mobile commercial platforms but do not always take into account mobilized, active adversaries—nor environments with disruptive, intermittent, and latent communications.