Department of Homeland Security awards $11.6M in contracts for network/internet disruptions research

September 17, 2018

Five research organizations were awarded separate contracts totaling $11.6 million to develop new methods to identify and attribute Network/Internet-scale Disruptive Events (NIDEs) by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T).

Here are the details:

Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), University of California, San Diego, $3,000,000 for Internet Outage Detection and Analysis -Next Phase (IODA-NP): Multi-source Real-time Detection of Macroscopic Internet Connectivity Disruption—CAIDA will work to define a framework to perform near real-time monitoring of the internet for NIDEs.
SecureLogix, San Antonio, Texas, $1,876,247 for NIDE Detection in Public Safety and Communication Networks—SecureLogix’s effort will focus on making the nation’s 911 and other public safety and emergency communications systems more secure from NIDEs.
Two Six Labs, Arlington, Virginia, $3,220,125 for Attribution and Research of Characteristics Underlying Disruptive Event Scenarios (ARCUS) —Two Six Labs will develop a framework to detect NIDEs within a network or system.
University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI), Los Angeles, California, $2,842,232 for Detecting, Interpreting, and Validating from Outside, In, and Control, Disruptive Events—USC-ISI is working to develop root-cause attribution of NIDEs through an understanding of multiple levels of the network stack.
The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, $672,961 for Recording Router Reboots for Rating Reliability and Reachability—The University of Waikato will develop a system for internet-scale monitoring of router-reboots and their impact on Border Gateway Protocol routing and reachability.

S&T’s newly established Predict, Assess Risk, Identify (and Mitigate) Disruptive Internet-scale Network Events (PARIDINE) project is working to develop innovative technologies that will provide systems and capabilities to identify, classify, and report NIDES.

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