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Faithful Integration, Reverse-engineering, and Emulation (FIRE) Program (SENPAI project) is sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This grant supports research to secure cyber-physical systems, with a focus on identifying vulnerabilities in drone/rover systems and other autonomous cyber-physical systems. The project aims to discover end-to-end security vulnerabilities within 30 days or less.
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Faithful Integration and Reverse-engineering and Emulation (FIRE) | Research Funding Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Faithful Integration and Reverse-engineering and Emulation (FIRE) The Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) at DARPA seeks proposals that provide a strong and innovative technical approach that show a constructive plan to fully address the FIRE program goals and metrics.
Proposers should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
The Faithful Integrated Reverse-engineering and Exploitation (FIRE) program seeks to develop transformative tools to find, exploit, and patch vulnerabilities in medium-complexity cyberphysical systems (CPS) within a month from when the physical system is delivered to the analysis team.
FIRE is primarily interested in cyber-physical vulnerabilities (CPV), ones that arise from the composition of hardware, software, and physical components where each component may not be vulnerable in-and-of itself.
The FIRE goals are driven by the proliferation of low-cost commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components (e.g., sensors, actuators, and algorithms) resulting in diverse classes of CPS including smart meters, medical devices, autonomous vehicles, and industrial control systems to name a few. Furthermore, agile development practices have shown that even highly complex systems such as a car can be remotely patched every few weeks.
Innovative CPS vulnerability analysis tools and techniques are needed to keep pace with increased system diversity and decreased analysis timelines.
o Abstract Due Date: March 31, 2023 o Proposal Due Date: May 19, 2023 The FIRE program has five (5) technical areas (TAs): TA1 Modeling will seek to develop tools that can model entire systems (to include hardware, software, and physical) with enough fidelity to find, exploit, and patch vulnerabilities, and are fast enough to meet the overall one-month program goal.
TA2 Simulation will seek to develop simulators that have enough precision to model interactions between system components and are fast enough to meet the overall program goals. TA3 Preparation will seek to develop tools that reduce the amount of time needed to prepare a system for analysis to include techniques to accurately identify components, connections, and/or board layouts.
TA4 Integration will seek to create the FIRE tool(s) that meet the overall one-month program metric by integrating TA1, TA2, and TA3 solutions. TA5 Engineering Support Task will seek to work with government and Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) teams to develop representative medium-complexity CPS with full data rights for TA1, TA2, TA3, and TA4 performers to test, evaluate, and demonstrate their solutions.
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Teams of security researchers from universities and industry partners are eligible, as demonstrated by the UCI, Arizona State University, and Huntington Ingalls Industries collaboration. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Faithful Integration, Reverse-engineering, and Emulation (FIRE) Program (SENPAI project) is funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This opportunity targets applicants in Arizona. If your organization operates elsewhere, check the official notice for location requirements.
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