The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has begun accepting abstracts from vendors interested in participating in the Intrinsic Cognitive Security program.
ICS is a two-phase, 36-month effort that aims prepare for potential attacks on mixed reality, or MR systems, which are increasingly being adopted in military operations, DARPA said Tuesday.
The program will apply mathematical approaches called formal methods on MR user behavior models in order to prove guarantees that an MR system can protect users from cognitive attacks.
Phase 1 of the project will involve proving the guarantees and supporting the cognitive models, while the second phase will center on the guarantees’ validation as well as prototyping of the ICS technology.
“We need to develop methods to protect mixed reality systems before systems lacking protections are pervasive,” said Matthew Wilding, DARPA’s ICS program manager. “This program will show how to protect personnel using rigorous, math-based development practices that enable MR adoption plans in DOD organizations.”
The agency released a broad agency announcement on Oct. 16, with abstracts and proposals due Nov. 2 and Dec. 20, respectively.
