New DARPA project aims to do away with IT updates

The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching a program aimed at helping do away with software updates, with plans to design a computer system that has the ability to outlive over 100 years of technological change.

The four-year project, Building Resources Adaptive Software Systems (BRASS), for which DARPA is currently soliciting research proposals, will look at the computational and algorithmic requirements needed for software systems and accompanying data to remain functional for a century or longer.

According to the US Department of Defense technology research agency, the program is aimed at making advances in the design and implementation of long-lived software systems that have the ability to dynamically adapt to changes in the resources they depend upon, and the environments in which they operate.

Jagannathan said that although the project's plan of ensuring applications continue to function correctly and efficiently in the face of a changing operational environment is a "formidable challenge", it is a challenge worth engaging in.

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