Cyber

The initial phase of a DARPA program that used publicly accessible online games to accelerate the verification of software has helped produce hundreds of thousands of program annotations in common software programming languages, adding credence to the idea that digital games can be an effective means of crowdsourcing solutions to software problems. The results have inspired DARPA to launch a new round of games with the goal of extending the successes to date and learning more about the approach’s potential.

DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O) will host a Proposers Day conference to provide information to potential proposers on the objectives of the anticipated Modeling Adversarial Activity (MAA) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). The Proposers Day will be held Tuesday, September 27, 2016, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM (ET) at the Hilton Arlington, located at 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, VA. The purpose of this conference is to provide information on the MAA program, promote relevant discussion, and address questions from potential proposers.

Dr. Hava Siegelmann joined DARPA in July 2016 with the goal of developing programs that advance intelligence in computerized devices, focusing on life-long learning, context-aware adaptivity, and user-centered applications.

DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of modeling adversarial activity for the purpose of producing high confidence indications and warnings of efforts to acquire, fabricate, proliferate, and/or deploy weapons of mass terrorism (WMT).