Proposals must have been received by 4:00pm EDT June 15, 2001 to be eligible for FY 01 and FY02 funding. When a new competition is announced, we will provide additional information and guidance about that competition.

Research Topics: The following topics were of interest for the FY2001/2 competition.

• network system interactions and vulnerabilities to cascading effects;
• robustness, resilience, and behavior of tightly coupled, complex, nonlinear systems;
• design of "testbeds" and other means for experimentally validating network security technologies;
• fundamental principles, scientific basis, methodologies, and metrics for information assurance as an engineering discipline;
• information assurance for emerging information technologies;
• concepts for high-confidence systems and software;
• increasing resistance to penetration;
• next-generation intrusion and malicious code detection;
• user interfaces such as visualization of system security information;
• self-healing systems;
• security and forensics toolkits and
• system architecture to ensure survivability, graceful degradation under stress, and ease of reconstitution.