Description
The aim of the competition is to research and develop new approaches to increase the robustness and security of neural AI approaches in the context of application systems in the domains of internal and external security. The research and development activities should address the question of whether, how and to what extent security and robustness properties can be demonstrated for specific application domains and systems, where the limits of verifiability lie and how systems with such properties can be realized as prototypes or minimal viable products. Measured in terms of technology readiness level (TRL), this project will pursue approaches with TRL 1 (basic research) to TRL 4 (laboratory prototypes).
The main objective of the procurement is to demonstrate and evaluate how the approaches developed to increase the robustness and safety of neural AI approaches can be demonstrably safely applied along the entire ML process chain by the end of the project period using a real application system for internal or external security. This can be done with the help of software artifacts such as This can be done using software artifacts such as validation and data preparation tools, model architectures, foundation models and integrated ML systems, which must prove themselves in laboratory and application tests as well as evaluations against competing approaches and possibly baseline models. Thematically, the project is divided into the following main research areas: 1) Automated safeguarding of data quality, 2) Hybrid models from neural and symbolic AI systems, 3) Formal verification of ML models, 4) Secure system embedding, 5) Verification over the entire life cycle. The service provision is divided into several phases. The best and most innovative of the competing solutions will be identified and selected in stages as part of the procedure based on the criteria set out in the tender documents.
Deadline for the submission of requests to participate
23.05.2023, 18:00, via www.evergabe-online.de or directly www.evergabe-online.de/tenderdetails.html?id=505660
Client: Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH
Awarding body: Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH
Services and products: Research and development services and related consulting
Tender scope: Europe-wide
Procurement procedure: Pre-commercial procurement
Type of award: based on a negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Place of fulfillment: Halle (Saale), district-free city
Contact: exclusively via the bidder portal
Contract notice number: 2023/S 070-206022
CPV code: 73000000