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Pentagon Wants Cyberwar Range to 'Replicate Human Behavior and
Frailties'
By Noah Shachtman
May 05, 2008 | 3:07:00 PM
Categories: DarpaWatch, Info War
The Pentagon's way-out researchers don't just want to build an
Internet simulator, to test out cyberwar tactics. They want the
range's operators to "realistically replicate human behavior and
frailties," too.
Congress has ordered the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or
Darpa, to put together a National Cyber Range, as part of a massive
(and massively secret) $30 billion, government-wide effort better prep
for battle online. The project is now considered a top priority for
the Agency. And to make sure the facility is as true-to-life as
possible, Darpa wants the contractors running the Range to be able to
"replicate realistic human behavior on nodes," a request for
proposals, released today, reveals.
Specifically, the Agency wants to have its contractors:
. Provide robust technologies to emulate human behavior on all
nodes of the range for testing all aspects of range behavior.
. Replicants will produce realistic chain of events between many
users without explicit scripting behavior.
. Replicants must be capable of implementing multiple user roles
similar to roles found on operational networks.
. Replicant behavior will change as the network environment
changes, as the replicated "outside environment" (i.e. DoD DefCon,
InfoCon, execution of war plans, etc) changes, and as network activity
changes (detected attacks, degradation of services, etc).
. Replicants will simulate physical interaction with device
peripherals, such as keyboard and mice.
. Replicants will drive all common applications on a desktop
environments.
. Replicants will interact with authenticate systems, including but
not limited to DoD authentication systems (common access cards - CAC),
identity tokens.
These mock people have to be able to "demonstrate human-level behavior
on 80 percent of all events," the Agency adds. And mimicking us flesh-
and-blood types is only one of a wide array of tasks Darpa wants to
see operators of the National Cyber Range, or NCR, pull off.
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