The Army on Monday evening released a request for information notice to assess industry’s ability to provide artificial intelligence-based cyber defense tools needed to improve protection of its tactical network.

CERDEC’s Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD) expects the eventual solution to include a package of multiple AI technologies to deliver a range of autonomous cyber defense capabilities.

“S&TCD is seeking to develop autonomous cyber defenses for the tactical networks and communications that are driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning,” officials wrote in the

RFI notice. “The cyber technology will secure automated network decisions and defend against adaptive autonomous cyber attackers at machine speed.”

Army officials also cited a need to improve current autonomous decision engines and a goal to build a collection of machine learning-based cyber agents associated with specific cyber defense applications.

S&TCD said autonomous detection of known vulnerabilities, identification of misconfigurations in networks and unknown malware samples as two critical capabilities for the market survey.

The RFI includes objectives to design a new interface to allow human-in-the-loop feedback with AI-based decision engines and improve the efficiency of human-machine teaming missions.

Responses to the RFI are due by Feb. 13.