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APRIL 12, 16:19 EDT
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) are trying to safeguard the military's software against hackers and software pirates through a program called the Software Protection Initiative (SPI).
Officials of the Office for the Undersecretary of Defense (OUSD) for Science and Technology in the Pentagon and the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Sensors Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, will co-host an SPI Industry Day April 24 at the Holiday Inn-International Drive Resort in Orlando, Fla.
The SPI seeks to identify, study, and evaluate key technologies necessary to strengthen software protection capabilities for scientific, engineering, modeling, simulation, and operational software that run on special-purpose and general-purpose computers.
This event is to familiarize industry and academia with the SPI and its goals, which include:
-- software protection science and engineering tools;
-- software protection security policies;
-- execution host management and traceability;
-- distribution accountability; software protection and distribution sensors;
-- distribution and copy traceability; binary inspection protection;
-- secure notification of use or reuse;
-- software distribution management and accountability;
-- component-level software protection;
-- inherent access control and management;
-- autonomous protection;
-- protection of modeling and simulation;
-- distribution traceability;
-- automatic and inherent misuse notification;
-- technologies for self-destruct or accuracy degradation upon misuse detection; and
-- software protection technologies for mobile code.
Experts will take questions related to SPI technology objectives and the SPI program throughout the Industry Day presentation. A group e-mail list for distribution of SPI information is available at https://lyris.vdl.afrl.af.mil/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?site=spi&page=topic&topic=spi-general&text_mode=0&lang=english.
The Industry Day is at the Holiday Inn-International Drive Resort, 6515 International Drive, Orlando, Fla. (telephone 407-351-3500). Sign-in for briefings is at 9 a.m. and the unclassified briefing is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For more information contact the AFRL's Martin Stytzby phone at 937-255-2811, ext. 4380, by e-mail at martin.stytz@wpafb.af.mil, by post at AFRL/SNZW, 2241 Avionics Circle, Bldg. 620, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 45433. Also contact the AFRL's Jeff Hughes by phone at 937-255-7548, by e-mail at jeff.hughes@wpafb.af.mil, by post at AFRL/SNAS, 2010 Fifth St., Building 23, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433.
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