Funds to support the HPCC portion of activities in High Confidence Systems for FY 1997 total $32 million, compared to the FY 1996 Estimated budget of $30 million, an increase of 6.7%.
DARPA will demonstrate a prototype scalable operating system that incorporates high assurance capabilities for the Information Survivability program. They will also deploy a reference implementation of a common base set of network infrastructure protocols and services necessary for secure and reliable network operation.
NSA will release an expanded Synergy prototype including enhancements and improvements derived from collaboration with vendors and universities, to influence the design of commercial operating system development.
DOE will design and demonstrate adaptable high speed distributed computing communication libraries with multiple security and authentication, as well as performance, mechanisms.
NIST will begin an initiative in improved methods for software engineering, making use of powerful, mathematically-based techniques for analysis and synthesis of software systems. The goal is to establish laboratory facilities to conduct R&D and assess candidate technologies that support automated testing and integrated software engineering. NIST will also initiate R&D in coding and compression, as well as related testing technologies for wireless networks.
VA will expand testing of the Nationwide Authentication, Authorization, and Encryption Services to allow secure transmission of medical data across unsecured telecommunication links such as public networks, phone systems, and the Internet.
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