CUIG_AMP_DISTAR_Approved_21_Aug_2019.docx

Controlled Unclassified Information Guide

Assured Micropatching (AMP)

Program Manager: Sergey Bratus Program Security Officer: Denice Holden

Date: August 2, 2019 Version: 1.0

Background AMP aims to produce targeted security micropatches to repair legacy binaries of Department of Defense (DoD) mission critical systems, with strong guarantees that the patch will not impact the functions of the system. It will enable emergency patching of software in critical defense systems that are under adversary attack. AMP will accomplish this objective with goal-driven decompilation, binary-aware, minimal change recompilation and strong guarantees that the patch with guided, limited re-testing and non-interference proofs will preserve the original functionality of the system.

Purpose This guide identifies those aspects of the program that performers must handle as Controlled Technical Information (CTI). In addition, each performer must determine and assert the export controls (either Export Administration Regulations or International Traffic in Arms Regulations) relevant to their project, and communicate that assertion to their contracting agent and to the DARPA Program Manager.

Questions concerning the content and interpretation of this guide and/or recommendations for changes due to current conditions, progress made in program research, scientific technological developments, advances in state of the art, or other factors should be directed to the DARPA Program Manager. All users of this guide are encouraged to assist in improving its currency and adequacy. No changes are approved until DARPA issues an official modification and updates this guide.

Definition of Controlled Technical Information for the Program DOD considers “technical information” to be technical data or computer software, as those terms are defined in Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement clause 252.227-7013, "Rights in Technical Data - Noncommercial Items" (48 CFR 252.227-7013). Examples of technical information include research and engineering data, engineering drawings, and associated lists, specifications, standards, process sheets, manuals, technical reports, technical orders, catalog-item identifications, data sets, studies and analyses and related information, and computer software code. Note that such technical information may or may not be controlled (i.e., CTI), depending on whether it has military or space application.

Controlled Technical Information (CTI) is defined as technical information with military or space application that is subject to controls on its access, use, reproduction, modification, performance, display, release, disclosure, or dissemination. The term CTI does not include information that is lawfully publicly available without restrictions.

For the AMP Program, DARPA considers that all documentation, system outputs, test results and work products solely related to the application of any program-developed software, technique, or capability to a militarily relevant platform to be minimum CTI. Such detailed technical information could reveal sensitive or even classified capabilities and/or vulnerabilities of that military platform.

Safeguarding & Marking CTI The Contractor shall not release CTI to anyone outside the Contractor’s organization or to a Foreign National, regardless of medium (e.g. file, tape, and document), pertaining to any part of this contract or any program related to this contract, unless DARPA has provided prior written approval. Please submit requests for release of CTI to both the AMP Program Manager and Program Security Officer.

Contractor information systems shall be subject to the security requirements in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-171. “Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations”. DARPA can provide guidance on how to implement 800-171 controls.

CTI is to be marked “DISTRIBUTION C. Distribution authorized to U.S. Government agencies and their contractor; Critical Technology; December 2017. Other requests for this document shall be referred to DARPA, I2O.”, in accordance with Department of Defense Instruction 5230.24, "Distribution Statements on Technical Documents."

Material that does not contain CUI does not require marking. The lack of distribution statement does not automatically approve the information for public release. DARPA unclassified information must be reviewed for public release IAW with the performer’s contract.

The AMP program will develop and evaluate its technologies on open source and commercial platforms that do not create CTI. AMP plans to transition these technologies to DoD partners, at which point these partners would develop applications of these technologies to their specific platforms; however, no use of such platforms is planned for core AMP activities.

Aspects of the Program that Will Not Generate CTI Information and materials related to program schedules, meeting plans, programmatic goals and intentions, research directions, strategic challenges and gaps, instructions, status updates, and other such program management information and materials, whether created by DARPA or performers, will not constitute CTI unless they include material deemed to be CUI as noted in Section 3 of this guide. Non-CTI AMP management information and material may be shared with any program participant, U.S. Government representative, or other authorized individual or group by any means of communication, including in-person discussion, telephone communication, electronic message, electronic or hardcopy document, or electronic sharing medium.

Frequent and extensive interaction and collaboration among performers is a crucial program activity. Information and materials related to AMP research, development, software and system details, data preparation, algorithm performance, strategic objectives, and other such AMP technical information and materials, whether created by DARPA or performers, will not constitute CTI unless they include material deemed to be CUI as noted in Section 3 of this guide. Non-CTI AMP interaction and collaboration information and material may be shared with any program participant, U.S. government representative, or other authorized individual or group by any means of communication, including in-person discussion, telephone communication, electronic message, electronic or hardcopy document, or electronic sharing medium.

Information and materials related to AMP evaluation or assessment planning, execution, or results, whether created by DARPA or performers, will not constitute CTI unless they include material deemed to be CUI as noted in Section 3 of this guide. Non-CTI AMP evaluation and assessment information and material may be shared with any program participant, U.S. Government representative, or other authorized individual or group by any means of communication, including in-person discussion, telephone communication, electronic message, electronic or hardcopy document, or electronic sharing medium. When at all possible, encryption of data at rest and in motion is highly encouraged.

TA3 performers will coordinate with the DARPA PM to make available to all other performers unclassified target platforms that are not militarily relevant, to facilitate technology development. Specifically by Technical Area, the following work products are not CTI:

TA1 Goal-driven Decompilation

· Techniques, documentation, protocols, and software for the decompiled binary for unclassified non-militarily relevant target platforms:

· Decompiled binary that will be used to the most closely approximate given program style and structure.

· Decompiled binary that will facilitate situation of the security patch and formulation of security patches.

· Decompiled binary that will optimize performance of binary analyses of the security patch’s impact on the system.

TA2 Assured Recompilation

· Techniques, documentation (to include security proofs), protocols, and software to reproduce the exact binary code and integration of the patch using the recovered build process for each level of IR for unclassified non-militarily relevant target platforms:

· Methods and techniques to precisely track the effects of patches from the appropriate decompiled or intermediate representation (IR) to the binary throughout compilation.

· Footprint of changes on unit tests that rigorously verify non-interference.

· Families of IRs that recover or approximate program units and data abstractions.

TA3 Evaluation

· Techniques, documentation (to include security proofs), protocols, and software to perform test and evaluation of AMP technologies with unclassified non-militarily relevant target platforms:

· Testbed platform activities, to include: technologies to create, evaluate and operate realistic challenge tests of increasing difficulty for evaluating developed AMP capabilities.

· Challenges will be drawn from the heavy vehicle firmware domain.

· Voice of the adversary activities, to include: AMP performer technology and integrated system software security proofs/analysis and AMP system traffic instrumentation, culminating in a networked system.

· Data obtained by T&E performer regarding testbed platform performance and/or realism, to include data regarding communications channels within which to obfuscate communications, unless identified as CTI by the source of that data.

· Test plans for unclassified non-militarily relevant target platforms.

· Evaluation metrics for TA1 and TA2 specific to the unclassified non-militarily relevant target platforms.

· Component and system tests of the combined integrated solution.

· Evaluation approaches for maximizing test coverage of unclassified non-militarily relevant target platforms.

Publication All performers must follow the publication guidelines outlined in their contract. Performers requiring pre-publication review must submit any request through DARPA’s DISTAR Process.

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