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Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods
and/or services
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Nature of Requirements:
TITLE : ASSEMBLY CODE DATA MINING
1 Background
To assess information systems for reliability, integrity, and
vulnerability, as well as to understand and detect malware,
analysis is required. As malware authors seldom do the favor of
providing the source code of their creations, current analysis
techniques rely on software reverse engineering, a manually
intensive and time-consuming process. The objective of software
reverse engineering is to determine the functionality of a
program by taking the program's executable binary and generating
textual files that contain the equivalent assembly code. Reverse
engineering is further complicated by the necessary translation
of assembly code into a series of abstractions that represent
the overall flow of a program. Most of the steps involve finding
interesting areas of an executable through an overwhelming
amount of information and determining their overall
functionality.
Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) wants to create
new data mining techniques, together with their associated
theoretical foundations, algorithms, and tools. The goal is to
analyze large data sets of assembly code generated through the
reverse engineering process and address the current limitations
of DRDC prototypes.
2 Objectives
This contract includes a firm portion and a portion to be
performed on an "as and when requested basis" using a Task
Authorization (TA).
Task 1: Firm portion of the Work
In this task, the Contractor must :
- Investigate and create new techniques for assembly code data
mining.
- Design prototypes of the newly created data mining techniques.
- Conduct experiments to evaluate the precision, recall, and
scalability of the new techniques.
Portion of the Work to be performed on an "as and when requested
basis" using a Task Authorization (TA)
The objectives of this portion of the Work are :
- Task 2: Data Mining Techniques Design and Prototyping
- Task 3: Port to Other Platforms
- Task 4: Develop Plug-ins
- Task 5: Evaluate Research Results Published in the Scientific
literature
- Task 6: Produce State-of-the-Art Reports
3 Additional Information :
The organization for which the services are to be rendered is
Defence Research and Development Canada - Valcartier (DRDC -
Valcartier).
The period of the Contract is from date of Contract to October
31st, 2019, inclusive. For the firm portion of the Work : All
the deliverables must be received on or before March 31st, 2015.
Estimated amount of available funding for this Contract :
$400,000, Applicable Taxes extra, including $50,000, Applicable
Taxes extra, for the firm portion of the Work.
Bidders must provide a list of names, or other related
information as needed, pursuant to section 01 of Standard
Instructions 2003.
For services requirements, Bidders in receipt of a pension or a
lump sum payment must provide the required information as
detailed in article 3 of Part 2 of the bid solicitation.
The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Agreement on
Internal Trade (AIT).
The requirement is limited to Canadian goods and/or services.
Delivery Date: Above-mentioned
The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any
procurement.
Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.
