The White House plans to launch a DARPA-led challenge competition to build AI systems that can proactively identify and fix software vulnerabilities. White House officials acknowledge the difficulty of securing federal software systems and believe that crowd-sourcing solutions through AI can help address this challenge.
White House officials concede that properly securing the nation’s sprawling federal software systems against intrusion is a daunting task. “They don't have the tools capable of security at this scale,” Perri Adams, Program Manager, Information Innovation Office, DARPA, said during the call. “We've seen in recent years, hackers exploiting the state of affairs, posing a serious national security risk.
Despite those vulnerabilities, “I think we have to keep one step ahead and AI offers a very promising approach for that,” Adams said. There’s nearly $20 million in prize money up for grabs. And to ensure that the competition isn’t dominated by the teams with the deepest pockets, DARPA is making $7 million available to small businesses who want to compete as well.
The research agency will hold an open qualifying event next spring where the top scoring teams will get invited to the semifinals at DEF CON 24. That cohort will be whittled down to the top five teams, who will win monetary prizes at the competition and be invited back to DEF CON 25 for the finals. The top three scoring teams from DC25 will win even more money.
The winning team will also be strongly encouraged to open-source their resulting program. The competition is bringing on The Open Source Security Foundation , a Linux Foundation project, as an advisor to the challenge. Their job is to help ensure that the code is put to use immediately, “by everyone from volunteer, open-source developers to commercial industry,” Adams said.
“The president has been completely clear that we have got to get AI right for the American people,” Prabhakar said. Last fall the Biden White House unveiled its
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