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Reclaiming Bus-based Systems During Compromise (Red-C)

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General Information

  • Contract Opportunity Type: Solicitation (Original)
  • Original Published Date: Jan 29, 2025 03:11 pm EST
  • Original Date Offers Due: Apr 10, 2025 05:00 pm EDT
  • Inactive Policy: Manual
  • Original Inactive Date: May 10, 2025
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Reclaiming Bus-based Systems During Compromise (Red-C) seeks to explore algorithms to construct self-healing systems, by retrofitting firmware for individual components on a bus to function as forensic sensors that collectively monitor peers to detect, repair, and inoculate on-system during a cyber-attack. Many Department of Defense critical systems are bus-based systems with implicitly trusted modular components. Bus-based systems are currently vulnerable to cascading implicit trust attacks, and system recovery is hindered by the lack of available forensic information. The Red-C program will construct a resilient approach to on-system detection and repair of cyber-attacks which can be implemented on current hardware via firmware updates ending the lack of state data and the cascading implicit trust flaw in modern buses.

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