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Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Open Call - Autonomous Decision Making for Cyber Defence
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01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £951,581Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- Mon 13 Sep 2021, 23:59 BSTA deadline does not apply to this historical notice. The source records Mon 13 Sep 2021, 23:59 BST, which is not an open deadline.
- Published
- 5 Nov 2021
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
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Under this open call, the Authority is seeking novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) approaches for autonomous cyber defence decision making. Specifically, the Authority is interested in research that aims to:
• Develop AI and ML based approaches for autonomous response options planning. This could include (but is not limited to) the application of reinforcement learning, adversarial machine learning, game theory etc. Response options could include (but are not limited to): implementation of technical mitigation measures; initiating actions to increase information veracity or certainty before implementing a mitigation response; or initiating actions to identify the cause of system failure in order to recover from it.
• Develop multi agent approaches and architectures for cyber defence decision making. Key aspects include the trade-off between centralised and de-centralised agents, approaches for information sharing between agents, agent hierarchy and multi agent consensus. Note that this should focus on the interaction of machine agents and not the interaction of humans with machine agents.
• Develop methods and approaches to evaluating the decisions generated by the agents to determine their effectiveness and impact.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
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- 72000000 72200000 72230000 72240000 72260000
- 72231000 72244000 72262000
04/ History
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- 5 Nov 2021Contract notice
Contract notice published 5 November 2021.
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05/ Limits
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