(U) CNET LAB Reverse Engineering and Artificial Intelligence FY28

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CNET LAB Reverse Engineering and Artificial Intelligence FY28 Requirements and Questions Document
(U) Background. The Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC) provides combatant commands, Joint Staff and other customers with effects-based, innovative precision network targeting options in order to carry out the national security and military strategies of the United States during competition, crisis and conflict. JWAC maintains and enhances leading-edge technology and world-class subject matter expertise to provide the warfighter specialized engagement options against or adversaries' critical infrastructure and related systems. (U) Work Area. The work area is telecommunications, computer networking, and computing automation. This includes the development of tools to support analysis and model development to simulate infrastructure/networks.
(U) Objective. The JWAC utilizes computer network and telecommunications lab environments to conduct comprehensive modeling and network system emulations as required for the purpose of experimentation and proof of concept tactic development to support customer requirements. This effort is to procure specialized engineering support as required for equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, equipment updates/patches and proof of concept development. Additionally, hardware, software, and firmware tools will be developed as required to support proof of concept development for potential cyber capability development initiatives. The contractor will provide on-site support that includes reverse engineering and artificial intelligence expertise. (U) Technical Requirements.
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(U) Software Reverse Engineer. The contractor will provide software reverse engineers on site in Dahlgren, VA with expertise of software and/or telecommunications/computer components that deal with national security interests. JWAC may provide the contractor source code, binaries or hardware for firmware extraction. Reverse engineering will be used to support threat network and Tactics, Techniques and Procedure (TTP) development.

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(U) Artificial Intelligence. The contract will need to possess deep expertise across the full lifecycle of foundation model development, spanning pre-training at trillion-token scale through post-training alignment and production deployment. Subject Matter Expertise will be utilized in the following:
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(U) Designing and executing distributed training runs on graphics processing unit (GPU) clusters.

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(U) Architect and maintain high-throughput ingestion, deduplication, filtering, and