# Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND²) Special Notice

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/darpasn2496

- Solicitation number: DARPA-SN-24-96
- Notice type: Special notice
- Status: Closed. Deadline was August 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM EDT
- Department: Department of Defense
- Agency: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Contracting office: Def Advanced Research Projects Agcy (HR0011)
- NAICS: 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product or service code: AC12 National Defense R&D Services; Department Of Defense - Military; Applied Research
- First posted: August 12, 2024
- Last posted: August 13, 2024
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/262ae53540d94f4c9d4d4caaa1bbd1b6/view

## Description

Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND²) will develop formal models of emergent communication pathways to fundamentally improve how we deploy and detect robust and resilient hidden networks in the real world. The program will pair software-defined networking approaches with formal methods to provide provable privacy and performance guarantees for hidden communication systems at meaningful scale.

## Publications

- August 12, 2024: Special notice, due August 21, 2024. Notice ba1b79d31aed4ff0a07da7269b95ba84. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/ba1b79d31aed4ff0a07da7269b95ba84/view
- August 13, 2024: Special notice, due August 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM EDT. Notice 262ae53540d94f4c9d4d4caaa1bbd1b6. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/262ae53540d94f4c9d4d4caaa1bbd1b6/view

## Points of contact

- BAA Coordinator, PWND2@darpa.mil

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