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Goal Of DARPA’s ‘Plan X’ Is To Make Cyber Warfare More Manageable

Friday, April 26th, 2013

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The goal of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) “Plan X” cyber-offense research program is to help make the offensive aspect of cyber warfare more manageable and controllable, according to DARPA’s chief. DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar told reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon that Plan X, formally known as Foundational Cyberwarfare, is specifically about building the technology infrastructure to help launch cyber warfare from where “you hope that it’s going to do what you think it’s going to do,” as…

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

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‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

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Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

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Congress

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

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