DARPA’s Information Innovation Office is seeking innovative proposals in software defined networking, formal methods and privacy to develop technologies that provide guarantees for hidden communications systems.
Modern hidden communication systems development remains a manual process: systems are designed with ad hoc techniques, validated via empirical testing, and deployed without any guarantees that users will remain hidden.
PWND² seeks to develop formal models of emergent communication pathways (weird networks) to fundamentally improve how we deploy and detect robust and resilient hidden networks in the real world. As a first step towards that goal, PWND² will test the technical hypothesis that software-defined networking approaches paired with formal methods can provide provable privacy and performance guarantees for hidden communication systems at meaningful scale.
Abstracts (encouraged but not compulsory) are due 1 October 2024, with full proposals due 5 November 2024.
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Broad Agency Announcement – PWND² : HR001124S0037
