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Cyber

BAE Wins $8.6 Million Contract For Technology To Restore Power To U.S. Power Grid After Cyber Attack

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

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BAE Wins $8.6 Million Contract For Technology To Restore Power To U.S. Power Grid After Cyber Attack

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded BAE Systems an $8.6 million contract to develop technology to quickly restore power to the U.S. electric grid after a cyber attack causing a catastrophic failure, the company said Tuesday.This technology will be part of the DARPA Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation, and Characterization Systems (RADICS) program. The technology will quickly isolate both enterprise information technology (IT) and power infrastructure networks from all routes of malicious attack, Britain's BAE said.The contract work…

Congress

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Budget

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Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

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