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    NAVWAR Enterprise Announces Winners of Artificial Intelligence Prize Challenge

    SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES

    12.07.2020

    Story by Kara McDermott 

    Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR)

    Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) enterprise announced the winners of its second prize challenge in the Artificial Intelligence Applications to Autonomous Cybersecurity Challenge (AI ATAC) series, December 7.

    The winner of the challenge and the $500,000 prize, was FireEye, the intelligence-led security company. Their submission, FireEye® Network Security with SmartVision™, had the best performance based on the criteria of the challenge, which focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies that detect adversarial campaigns by monitoring network observable behaviors or by analysis of data collected across an enterprise.

    Managed by Program Executive Office (PEO) for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) and Space System’s Cyber Security Program Office (PMW 130), AI ATAC explored adversarial campaign detection using state-of-the-art AI and ML at the network layer. The challenge called for white papers describing network-based security technologies and the corresponding tool for evaluation.

    “We are constantly looking for innovative ways to reduce barriers to delivering warfighting capability,” said Rear Adm. Kurt Rothenhaus, Program Executive Officer, PEO C4I and Space Systems. “Prize challenges allows us to bring new folks to the table to solve tough technical challenges with a fresh perspective.”

    The program office partnered with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a Department of Energy laboratory in Tennessee, which provided facilities and expertise for evaluating the technical solutions.

    The evaluation of the submissions took place using ORNL’s Cybersecurity Operations Research Range and focused on how much of an adversarial campaign, defined as a sequence of events towards an exploitative goal, the challenge participant’s technologies could accurately uncover. The scoring was in terms of a cost estimate that simulates the cost to an enterprise using this technology for a given period of time. The score integrated how much of each campaign was detected, time to detect, number of true and false alerts into a simulation of attack costs, labor costs and resource costs. The winning submission was the one with the lowest computed total cost.

    “I continue to be amazed at both the high quality and quantity of entries into this challenge series,” said John T. Armantrout, PMW 130 program manager. “Our industry partners are coming to the table with some break-through capabilities and we are gaining great insight on the latest tools available. Congratulations to FireEye for taking home the prize in this challenge – their entry hit it out of the park. I’d also like to recognize the fantastic work by my colleague Mike Karlbom as the lead for these challenges - it is no small task to complete one of these challenges."

    This was the second AI ATAC prize challenge conducted by NAVWAR enterprise. The first challenge launched in July 2019 and announced the winners in March 2020. FireEye also came out on top for that challenge, which explored the capability for endpoint security products to incorporate AI and ML models to detect and defeat indicators of compromise from various advanced malware strains.

    While the winner was the same for both challenges, sponsoring AI ATAC allowed the command to gather important insight and participation from various other nontraditional defense vendors, teams and individuals.

    The next prize challenge in the AI ATAC series, slated to launch later this week, will focus on security orchestration and automated response (SOAR) tools that use AI and ML to automate functions of the Security Operations Center, with a $750,000 prize for the winner. For more information, continue to check www.challenge.gov.


    About NAVWAR

    NAVWAR identifies, develops, delivers and sustains information warfighting capabilities and services that enable naval, joint, coalition and other national missions operating in warfighting domains from seabed to space and through cyberspace. NAVWAR consists of more than 11,000 civilian, active duty and reserve professionals located around the world.

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    Date Taken: 12.07.2020
    Date Posted: 12.07.2020 06:30
    Story ID: 384342
    Location: SAN DIEGO, CA, US

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