SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Improving Automated Metadata Extraction, Analysis, and Reporting
- Notice Date
- 7/18/2011
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- N00104 NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support Mechanicsburg PA NAVSUP 5450 Carlisle Pike PO Box 2020 Mechanicsburg, PA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- N0010411RQT02
- Response Due
- 7/22/2011
- Archive Date
- 8/6/2011
- Point of Contact
- Andrew Clarek 717-605-3237
- E-Mail Address
-
andrew.r.clarke@navy.mil
(andrew.r.clarke@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This project builds upon NPS Grant N00244-11-1-0010 awarded to the contractor effective 8 December 2010 and seeks to take work developed by the awardee and productize it so that it can be used at NPS and by other US Government agencies. The overall goal is to create and distribute a software tool for automatically extracting significant salient information from a computer hard drive and preparing a report that can be used by a non-specialist. UCSC will develop a tool to take a hard drive and tell where it was used. This technique will be invaluable in establishing a path of travel, such as the hard drive of a combatant machine that was used in a country, perhaps the planning country, different from the one where it was captured. Prior low-level network approaches suffer from limitations of availability and ephemerality. Observing content and security metadata can improve this outlook. Low-level network artifact analysis gives some strong hints to the location of a hard drive ™s usage. IP packets also give hints to locations of the hard drive user ™s interests, such as communications that point to a particular region. Unfortunately, these network data are oftentimes ephemeral. For instance, IPv4 addresses can be tied to a location for a period of time, but that period expires with the address ™s allocation. MAC addresses of wireless base stations are the basis of several successful geolocation services, but the location-MAC pairings are not generally available except in active use. There is a plethora of content available at higher levels than the transition layers. UCSC ™s tool will make use of: Locations of servers mentioned in email headers (for instance, time zones that can be aggregated to sanity-check other geographic hints) Cached location-aware advertisement text Cached security certificate content (e.g. X.509) With these and other sources of rich data available, the tool will assemble indicators of locations in the user of the device has expressed interest. Some of the services the user employs may also leak information to serve their own interests, especially advertisements. By employing techniques such as named entity recognition, the tool will note strengths of interest in particular regions. The library will be delivered to the government with all rights as either public domain or open source software with a license approved by the Open Source Initiative
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