Westinghouse Savannah River Company, P.O. Box 616, Aiken, SC 29802

A -- FIPS-186 DIGITAL SIGNATURE STANDARD SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENTS POC Vid Dekshenieks, Telephone (803) 725-5289. Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC), management and operating contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina, is seeking a partner under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) arrangemet for collaborative development of software involving application and integration of the FIPS-186 Digital Signature Standard into business applications packages. The goal of the resulting CRADA project is to produce a product or integration module that will provide the ability to replace current hard-copy approval signatures with an auditable, secure, electronic method that positively identifies the originator of the approval and prevents inadvertent or intentional alteration of the approval and affiliated information after signature. The software product will provide a modular, broadly applicable, electronic authorization mechanism for use in a diversified government-based unclassified computing environment. Applications areas include LAN-based forms management and routing, terminal-based time and attendance reporting, LAN-based procedure review and approval, review and approval of documents and records and travel expense reporting. It is anticipated that intellectual property rights will provide that the co-developed subject CRADA inventions/software will be co-owned. WSRC/DOE-SRS will receive a royalty-free license to any background intellectual property owned or controlled by the partipant, the infringement of which cannot reasonably be avoided upon the practice of any intellectual property developed under the CRADA. Organizations wishing to pursue an opportunity to participate in this CRADA should submit an expression of interest by April 28, 1995, to the WSRC Business Development Department (ATTN: Vid Dekshenieks), Savannah River Site, Building 773-41A, Aiken, 29808 (telephone (803) 725-5289). For the purposes of evaluation, respondents should include a brief proposal that includes a point of contact, current corporate involvement in FIPS-186 development efforts, and anticipated levels of effort and resources of both the respondent and WSRC. Technical questions may be directed to Barry Hudson at (803) 644-6721. This is not a solicitation for a formal contract, but an announcement of opportunity under WSRC's technology transfer authority. (093)

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