DARPA CHESS Program plans for human intellect teamed with autonomous technology for cyber defense

The Department of Defense (DoD) maintains information systems that depend on Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, Government off-the-shelf (GOTS) software, and Free and opensource (FOSS) software. Securing this diverse technology base requires highly skilled hackers who reason about the functionality of software and identify novel vulnerabilities. This process requires hundreds or thousands of hours of manual effort per discovered vulnerability and does not scale sufficiently to secure the continuously growing technology base.