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Army Issues Call For White Papers For Initial Cyber Challenge

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

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Army Issues Call For White Papers For Initial Cyber Challenge

The Army on Tuesday released a Request for White Papers (RWP) under its cyber challenge for physical hardware/networking models to evaluate the feasibility of a Deployable Defense Cyberspace Operations (DCO) Infrastructure (DDI) that will support Cyber Protection Teams (CPTs) that are physically deployed to an organization.The RWP says that the prototype technology initiatives that the Army is seeking “must advance capabilities in weapon system information technologies and be directly relevant to weapons or weapon systems.” The scope of the potential…

Space

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Congress

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Pentagon

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Congress

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