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Raytheon To Participate In DARPA’s Plan X

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, January 7th, 2014

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Raytheon [RTN] subsidiary BBN Technologies said on Dec. 16 that it is participating in the Defense Advanced Research Agency’s (DARPA) Plan X. Announced in May 2012, Plan X is a five-year, $110 million project to explore the possibilities of cyberwarfare and the capabilities that the Department of Defense would need to succeed on the digital battlefield. Academics, the military services and the private sector have all contributed to what Director Arati Prabhakar has called the “cyber-offense research program.” The agency has since backtracked…

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