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BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION:
The Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD) is seeking to develop defensive cyber technology to ensure that data traversing the network remains trusted and has not been modified through unauthorized means. The cyber technology will ensure that a decision maker has complete trust in the information used in the decision making process. Overall, S&TCD envisions a combination of multiple products that deliver novel defensive cyber capabilities. Objective Information Trust attributes include:
1. A specification based and Machine Learning (ML) based integrity service that identifies and blocks maliciously modified or crafted structured and unstructured messages.
2. A provenance tracker service that implements a novel lightweight private blockchain that tracks messages through the network from producer to consumer and will be able to automatically detect message modification.
3. Novel blockchain consensus algorithms that will be suited for usage in a disconnected, intermittent, and limited bandwidth environment.
4. A dynamic authentication service that will leverage ML, user/system data, and network threat history and status to develop trust measures for each user within a system or network. This authentication service should enable tracking of user trust values within the blockchain while allowing dynamic removal or addition of users to the blockchain during its lifecycle.
5. An information trust score architecture that will deliver real time and quantitative analytics upon the receipt of messages or data. The information trust score architecture can leverage other attributes mentioned above as well as provenance history combined with machine learning based techniques on historical data to provide visual trust scores to the Warfighter.
INFORMATION REQUESTED
Sources able to provide the requested information for any of the attributes described are invited to submit a white paper describing their technology, and test data relevant to this RFI.
The white paper should be organized as listed below, and include the following information:
1. Cover letter providing:
a. Company Information
1) Company name
2) Date of Incorporation
3) Number of years in business
4) Number of employees
5) Primarily location(s) where work is performed
6) Mailing Address
7) Company Website
8) Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Codes (if the company has one)
b. Company Point of Contact
1) Name
2) Title
3) Mailing Address
4) Email Address
5) Phone Number
2. Technical Approach Narrative (maximum 10 pages)
The white paper should include a description of your company's approach to meeting desired capabilities that were described in each of the products. The approach should, at a minimum, address: (1) a summary of your technology; (2) maturity level (commercially available, working prototype, TRL, etc); (3) How could it fit into the descriptions of the desired products.
3. Substantiating Technical Data (not part of the 10 page limit)
The submission should provide any available independent performance modeling and test results that substantiate the technology's performance. Specific details about the test environment such as hardware specifications, operating systems, and architectures should be included.
Submitting Responses to this RFI:
Interested parties are encouraged to submit their information electronically by 3:00PM EDT on 27 June 2019 to the following:
Technical Point of Contact (TPOC): Humza Shahid; [email protected]
AMT Mailbox: [email protected]
The subject line for the email submission should read: "RFI Submission: Information Trust - YOUR COMPANY". The submission is limited to 10 pages in length including the Technical Approach narrative. The Cover Letter and Substantiating Technical Data are not included in the 10-page limit.
Responses to the RFI will not be returned. Responses to the RFI may be used to develop Government documentation.
Questions
All questions should also be addressed to the following email address:
Humza Shahid, TPOC - [email protected]
Technical questions will be sent to the appropriate S&TCD TPOC and/or subject matter experts. The subject line for the email should read: "Technical Question(s), RFI: Information Trust - YOUR COMPANY".
Contractual questions will be sent to the appropriate points of contact at the Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground. The subject line for the email should read: "Contractual Question(s), RFI: Information Trust - YOUR COMPANY".
Data Rights
It is desirable that data be received with unlimited rights to the Government. However, it is recognized that proprietary data may be included with the information provided. If so, it is the responsibility of the interested party submitting data to clearly identify and mark such proprietary information and clearly separate it from the unrestricted information as an addendum. All information marked as proprietary information will be safeguarded to prevent disclosures to non-government personnel and entities. Please do not submit classified information in responses to this RFI; if necessary, classified discussions with the Government can occur later via secure means.