Enhanced SBOM for Optimized Software Sustainment (E-BOSS)
Closed Pre-Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- HR001124S0005
- Agency
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
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About this opportunity
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks proposals to develop enhanced Software Bill of Materials metadata and cyber reasoning tools to enable rapid triage and remediation of software vulnerabilities at scale under the Enhanced SBOM for Optimized Software Sustainment program. DARPA anticipates multiple awards for Technical Area 1 focusing on compilers and toolchains and a single award for Technical Area 2 for integration and evaluation. Proposals are due by January 30, 2024 and will be evaluated on overall scientific and technical merit, contribution to DARPA's mission, and cost realism.
There is no set-aside designation. Technical Area 1 has a period of performance of 20 months and Technical Area 2, 24 months. Evaluations will occur at months nine and fifteen, with opportunity for extension thereafter. Metrics include recovering triggers of vulnerabilities within one week and deploying fixes within three days on enterprise-scale distributed applications. Costs must be realistic and transition potential must benefit national security.
Notice text
The goal of the E-BOSS program is to develop Enhanced Software Bill of Material (eSBOM) metadata technology to enable rapid triage-and-remediation of vulnerabilities in software at scale. The toolchain components developed will emit advanced metadata alongside other SBOM information to effectively analyze and verify software. The metadata incorporated in the eSBOMs will enable trace back of discovered flaw evidence to its triggers, starting from a crash and walking back through complex inter-component interactions, transfers, and transformations to derive the triggers. Rapid remediation is then achieved by blocking the triggers and / or utilizing the metadata to identify what and where to apply fixes. Through eSBOMs, E-BOSS enables cyber-reasoning and assured transformations of the software deliverable for improved software development, testing, and sustainment.
Attachments
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| E-BOSS_proposal-summary.pptx | PPTX presentation | |
| HR001124S0005-Amendment-01.pdf | ||
| HR001124S0005.pdf |
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