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ReSCIND Proposers’ Day

Tuesday, 28 February 2023 from 8:00am to 3:30pm PST

(Event login available starting at 7:30am PST. Note times all are in Pacific Standard Time due to Proposer’s Day location.)

Welcome to the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Proposers’ Day Registration Page for the anticipated Reimagining Security with Cyberpsychology-Informed Defenses (ReSCIND) program.

Overview

The ReSCIND Proposers’ Day meeting will be held on Tuesday, 28 February 2023 from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm PST to introduce the ReSCIND Program to potential proposers and to provide information on technical requirements and program objectives.

The IARPA ReSCIND program aims to improve cybersecurity by developing a new set of cyberpsychology-informed defenses that leverage attacker’s human limitations, such as innate decision-making biases and cognitive vulnerabilities. ReSCIND seeks to develop novel methods to: 1) identify and model human limitations or cognitive biases relevant to cyber attack behavior,

2) understand, measure, and induce changes in cyber attack behavior and success, and 3) provide algorithms for automated adaptation of these solutions based on observed cyber attacker behavior. ReSCIND seeks to augment traditional cyber defenses to help rebalance the asymmetry of cyber defense by imposing a cyber penalty on attackers--causing wasted time and effort--thereby delaying and thwarting attacks.

The ReSCIND Proposers’ Day is a hybrid meeting with limited seating for in-person attendees and will be broadcast via the Webex video conference platform for remote attendees. Remote participation is expected to complete by 2:00 pm PST. Up to three in-person attendees per organization or research group will be permitted to attend, with exceptions made at IARPA’s discretion. Details of the venue will be sent to those who are approved to attend in-person.

Additional attendees will only be allowed to participate remotely. For planning purposes, the venue is located near the San Diego Airport, in San Diego, CA. A recorded video of the meeting will be made available to the public on the IARPA website at https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/ReSCIND

To attend, participants must register prior to Monday, 13 February 2023 at noon PST. Same-day registrations will not be accepted.

OPPORTUNITIES TO HIGHLIGHT CAPABILITIES

Successful ReSCIND proposals will assemble teams with diverse expertise and capabilities. This event provides an opportunity for prospective offerors to scout collaborations with other interested organizations. Participants are welcome to present lightning talks and posters and submit capabilities statements. The information submitted will not be reviewed or considered by the government for any purpose other than to ensure the appropriateness of content.

https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/ReSCIND

Lightning Talks

1. IARPA will make available the opportunity for registrants to present 5-minute lightning talks. These lightning talks should be seen as a mechanism to highlight technical capabilities of the presenter aligning with ReSCIND objectives. No live questions or overruns of the 5-minute presentation period will be permitted.

2. To ensure consideration for approval, lightning talk presentations should be submitted to dni-iarpa-ReSCIND-proposers-day@iarpa.gov by Thursday, 9 February 2023 at noon

PST.

3. An agenda of accepted lightning talks will be emailed the week of 13 February 2023 and shared at the start of the ReSCIND Proposers’ Day.

4. Presentations which do not appear to address the ReSCIND objectives or are inappropriate will not be accepted for presentation.

5. Only one lightning talk per organization will be permitted, excepting professors at the same University or College.

6. Presenters must submit their lightning talk presentations from the email associated with their registration.

7. Each lightning talk may only have one presenter.

8. All submitted lightning talk slides will be made available for public access. Presentation of a lightning talk is assumed to construe consent to share the contents, even if they may be marked as proprietary or company sensitive information.

9. A maximum of 30 lightning talks will be presented. Any accepted lightning talks beyond this number will have their slides posted online for public access but no recording will be made.

10. Lightning talks may be presented in-person or virtually.

11. Additionally, posters may be displayed during informal teaming discussions. Teams who wish to display a poster must inform IARPA during registration.

Capabilities Statements and Teaming Information Forms

1. As an option to facilitate teaming, potential proposers may submit a Capabilities Statement (5 pages maximum) and a completed Teaming Information Form (posted with this notice) to IARPA for possible posting on our website at https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/ReSCIND.

2. IARPA does not guarantee that all Capabilities Statements will be posted. This information will not be reviewed or considered by the government for any purpose other than review for appropriate content.

3. IARPA will attempt to post this content in a timely manner upon receipt. Such posting will be taken down at or around the time the BAA closes.

4. Submission of a Capabilities Statement is deemed consent to post the statement, notwithstanding markings such as “Proprietary” or “Company Sensitive”.

Participants in either activity should not submit anything they consider proprietary or protected information as this information will be shared with the public. No classified information may be submitted or presented.

mailto:dni-iarpa-ReSCIND-proposers-day@iarpa.gov https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/ReSCIND

Deadline to register for the Proposers’ Day: Monday, 13 February 2023 at noon PST.