IARPA: Office of Safe & Secure Operations

IARPA: Office of Safe & Secure Operations has these topics of interest:

Computational methods, including algorithms, based on models other than digital Turing machines and platforms other than CMOS whose attributes are matched to efficient or secure solution of intelligence problems (e.g., optical, analog, biomolecular, neuromorphic, quantum, and hybrid computing systems)

·         Novel ideas for technologies enabling energy-efficient computation beyond the efficiency projected for end-of-roadmap silicon, as well as strategies for using existing computing technologies to compute with lower power budgets

·         Design tools for non-traditional computing architectures/technologies and non-traditional materials

·         Robotized research methods

·         Approaches to operating securely with imperfect equipment, error-prone users, compromised components, and/or within an environment of unknown trustworthiness

·         Constructing systems that can perform reliable and secure computations when some fraction of their components is unreliable or insecure

·         New techniques and applications for algebraic statistics (AS) and software development for AS with an emphasis on user interface

·         New algorithms and techniques that take advantage of quantum entanglement to perform tasks (excluding quantum annealing) that are inefficient or impossible with classical algorithms and/or current platforms

·         Methods (including compilers and programming languages) for performing complicated computations securely, e.g. multi-party secure functional computation, full homomorphic encryption (HE), and HE applications, but with low overhead

·        Detection, classification, and mitigation of attempts by adversaries to compromise safety and security, including, but not limited to penetration and manipulation of electronic infrastructure

·         · Assurance techniques that take advantage of emergent enterprise architectural constructs, e.g. software-defined networking, multi-tenancy, and virtual hosting

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