CyberwarfareExperts, engineers gather to contribute to DARPA’s Plan X
DARPA’s Plan X will attempt to create revolutionary technologies for understanding, planning, and managing DoD cyber missions in real-time, large-scale, and dynamic network environments; Proposers’ Day dialogue cements program approach
DARPA seeks feedback from cyberwarfare developers // Source: sohu.com
When the team behind DARPA’s Plan X mapped out where it wanted to go with research in the development of cyber capabilities and platforms, it knew the DARPA approach to problem solving included soliciting input from the leading experts in the field. DARPA reports that on 15-16 October, it outlined its plans for Plan X to a packed house of potential developers and performers and solicited their feedback.
More than 350 software engineers, cyber researchers, and human-machine interface experts attended the event. DARPA officials presented the goals of Plan X in preparation for release of the program’s Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) — anticipated within the next month.
Plan X, announced in May 2012, is the first DARPA program of its kind. It will attempt to create revolutionary technologies for understanding, planning, and managing DoD cyber missions in real-time, large-scale, and dynamic network environments. Plan X will conduct novel research on the cyber domain. The Plan X program is explicitly not funding research and development efforts in vulnerability analysis or generation of cyberweapons.
“Insights obtained from discussions with government partners and potential performers during the Proposers’ Day workshop will help us finalize our approach to the Plan X program,” said Dan Roelker, DARPA program manager. “The program covers largely unchartered territory as we attempt to formalize cyber mission command and control for the DoD.”
It is anticipated that the BAA for this effort will be posted to FedBizOpps within the next month.
