(U) CNET Lab Emulatoin and Expertise FY28.pdf

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CNET LAB Emulation and Expertise FY28

Requirements and Questions Document

(U) Background. The Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC) provides combatant commands, Joint

Staff and other customers with effects-based, innovative precision network targeting options in order to carry out the national security and military strategies of the United States during competition, crisis and conflict. JWAC maintains and enhances leading-edge technology and world-class subject matter expertise to provide the warfighter specialized engagement options against or adversaries' critical infrastructure and related systems.

(U) Work Area. The work area is telecommunications, computer networking, and computing automation. This includes the development of tools to support analysis and model development to simulate infrastructure/networks.

(U) Objective. The JWAC utilizes computer network and telecommunications lab environments to conduct comprehensive modeling and network system emulations as required for the purpose of experimentation and proof of concept tactic development to support customer requirements.

Additionally, hardware, software, and firmware tools will be developed as required to support proof of concept development for potential cyber capability development initiatives. The contractor will provide support that includes hardware emulation expertise and computer scientists/engineers that will aid with laboratory emulation.

(U) Technical Requirements.

- (U) Foreign Systems. The contract will need to have expertise on foreign telecommunications and computer systems to include indigenous and foreign components.

- (U) Telecommunications and Computer Network Hardware Emulation. The contractor will be required to emulate US and foreign telecommunications and computer network hardware to support experimentation at scale and reduce risk to equipment during development. The emulated hardware will be compatible with virtualization platforms specified by JWAC. Currently, JWAC leverages QEMU-KVM for machine emulation/virtualization. The contractor will be required to validate the emulated hardware by hosting any required operating systems and applications. The contractor may be required to develop mechanisms to monitor and capture the state of the emulated hardware (i.e. virtual machine snapshots, monitor system calls). JWAC will provide the hardware required for emulation.

(U) Technical Questions.

1. (U) Does your company have analysts at the TS//SCI level?

2. (U) Does your company have the ability to have analysts sit at Joint Warfare Analysis

Center in

(U) Dahlgren, VA for greater than 50% of a work week?

3. (U) What level of experience do you have in the following areas? (Jr., mid-tier, Sr.)/(# years)

a. Systems Programming (C/C++/Rust)

b. OS Internals & Kernel Networking

c. Virtualization & Hardware Emulation

d. Concurrency & Determinism

e. Build Systems & Cl/CD

4. {U) How much experience do you have with developing/coding virtual systems?

5. {U) What experience do you have with emulating routers, involving:

a. Routing Protocol Stacks

b. Data Plane Programming

c. Forwarding Plane Architecture

d. Control Plane Integration

e. Chassis/Line Card Abstraction

6. (U) Have you developed/modeled/coded/emulated aspects of the following areas? If so, in what capacity?

a. Cycle-Accurate vs. Functional Simulation

b. Time Management

c. State Checkpointing & Migration

d. Scalability Patterns

e. Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL}

7. (U) How familiar are you with emulation architecture? Specifically:

a. Cycle-Accurate vs. Functional Simulation

b. Time Management

c. State Checkpointing & Migration

d. Scalability Patterns

e. Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)

8. (U) Provide an example(s) of your experience with validation and verification

(V&V) of emulations with respect to the following list. What is the biggest hurdle in this process?

a. Differential Testing

b. Model Checking/ Formal Methods

c. Telemetry & Tracing

d. Conformance Suites