The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Monday issued a solicitation seeking commercial solutions to hunt for cyber threats on Department of Defense and partner-owned networks.
The DIU, which is focused on helping commercial and non-traditional defense contractors bring their solutions to the DoD, says it prefers that companies that have directly developed solutions respond to the Advanced Rapid Analysis of Cyber Hunt Network Infrastructure Data (ARACHNID) solicitation. The DoD office also prefers solutions that are ready and commercially viable.
“Upon receiving a mission to hunt on a new network, the DoD needs to rapidly identify and map network devices, and seeks innovative ways to accomplish this efficiently,” the ARACHNID solicitation says. “Preferred solutions will allow for the ingestion of Layer 2 and Layer 3 network device configuration files, PCAP files, and flow logs versus taking an active scanning approach. The solution must not require Internet access or cloud resources while operating.”
The DIU will award any contracts through its recently streamlined Commercial Solutions Opening, which seeks “proposals for innovative, commercial technologies that accelerate the attainment of asymmetric defense capabilities.”
Proposals are due by Nov. 17.