diff --git a/apps/fwd/BUCK b/apps/fwd/BUCK
index 0e712b9..8d2f03a 100644
--- a/apps/fwd/BUCK
+++ b/apps/fwd/BUCK
@@ -12,8 +12,15 @@
 )
 
 onos_app (
-    title = 'Reactive Forwarding App',
+    title = 'Reactive Forwarding',
     category = 'Traffic Steering',
     url = 'http://onosproject.org',
-    description = 'Reactive forwarding application using flow objective subsystem.',
+    description = 'Provisions traffic between end-stations using hop-by-hop flow programming by ' +
+        'intercepting packets for which there are currently no matching flow objectives on the ' +
+        'data plane. The paths paved in this manner are short-lived, i.e. they expire a few ' +
+        'seconds after the flow on whose behalf they were programmed stops.\n\n' +
+        'The application relies on the ONOS path service to compute the shortest paths. ' +
+        'In the event of negative topology events (link loss, device disconnect, etc.), ' +
+        'the application will proactively invalidate any paths that it had programmed to lead ' +
+        'through the resources that are no longer available.',
 )