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Description

DARPA will host a Proposers’ Day Workshop in support of the DARPA-BAA-08-43, the National Cyber Range (NCR) program on May 13-14, 2008 from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM, local Arlington, VA time at the Hilton Washington Dulles. Additionally, the classified materials to DARPA-BAA-08-43 will be available to review at the Schafer Corporation Arlington Building on May 12, 2008. The purpose of this conference is to provide information on the National Cyber Range program; promote additional discussion on this topic; address questions from potential proposers; and provide a forum for potential proposers to present their capabilities for teaming opportunities.

Attendance is not required to propose to any associated BAA. The Performers’ Day materials (unclassified and classified) will be made available to qualified proposers who are not able to attend the Proposers’ Day (see DARPA-BAA-08-43).

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE AND DESCRIPTION:

The National Cyber Range (NCR) will enable a revolution in the Nation’s ability to conduct cyber operations by providing a persistent cyber range that will:

• Conduct unbiased, quantitative and qualitative assessment of information assurance and survivability tools in a representative network environment.
• Replicate complex, large-scale, heterogeneous networks and users in current and future Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems and operations.
• Enable multiple, independent, simultaneous experiments on the same infrastructure.
• Enable realistic testing of Internet/Global-Information-Grid (GIG) scale research.
• Develop and deploy revolutionary cyber testing capabilities.
• Enable the use of the scientific method for rigorous cyber testing.

DARPA-BAA-08-43 is pending release. When released, the BAA will be found on the FedBizOpps website, http://www.fedbizopps.gov/.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

Information concerning registering for this conference, hotel and reviewing the Classified Addendum can be found at: https://www.enstg.com/signup/passthru.cfm?ConferenceCode=NAT22571

Participants must register NLT May 6, 2008. There is no registration fee for attending this conference. Due to space limitations of the conference facility, attendance will be limited to the first 500 registrants, and no more than 4 representatives per organization. The Proposers’ Day will be unclassified and open to the general public. All attendees will be required to present government issued photo identification upon entry to the event. Additionally, all US Citizens are required to submit a US Citizenship Verification form in order to attend this conference. Non-US citizens are required to submit a DARPA Form 60 “Foreign National Visit Request”. The completed Citizenship Form or DARPA Form 60 must be faxed to DARPA-BAA-08-43, (703)-807-1762, no later than May 6, 2008. Both documents are available for download at the registration website.

Please refer to the registration website referenced above for instructions for passing clearances in order to review the classified materials to DARPA-BAA-08-43.

Additionally, attendees who would like to pursue teaming opportunities during day-two of the workshop may request to do so during registration. Teaming introductions will contain no slides and are limited to five (5) minutes each. Proposers desiring to reserve a time to present during the Teaming Portion of the Proposers’ Day Conference will indicate their intent during the registration process. It is the presenter’s responsibility to ensure that all material they plan to discuss at the Proposers’ Day Conference has been approved by the funding organization in advance.

Contracting Office Address:

3701 North Fairfax Drive Arlington,
Virginia 22203-1714

Primary Point of Contact.:

BAA08-43 Coordinator BAA08-43@darpa.mil
Fax: (703)-807-1762

Secondary Point of Contact:

Patty Matyskiela, Contract Specialist
patricia.matyskiela@darpa.mil