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Army Releases RFP For DoD Cyber Training Program Worth Nearly $1 Billion

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, June 15th, 2020

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Army Releases RFP For DoD Cyber Training Program Worth Nearly $1 Billion

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The Army has begun soliciting industry proposals for a nearly $1 billion program to integrate and support cyber training across the Department of Defense, with a contract to be awarded by early 2021. A Request for Proposals notice for the Cyber Training, Readiness, Integration, Delivery and Enterprise Technology (TRIDENT) program, worth potentially $958 million, details plans to find a “consolidated, streamlined approach for integrating, incrementally releasing, and maintaining cyber training capabilities,” with a main focus on developing the Persistent Cyber…

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