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DARPA Awards Galois $10 Million Contract To Secure Legacy Cyber Systems

Wednesday, May 25th, 2016

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DARPA Awards Galois $10 Million Contract To Secure Legacy Cyber Systems

The Defense Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Galois a $10 million contract under its Cyber Fault-tolerant Attack Recovery (CFAR) program to secure cyber vulnerabilities in military and commercial legacy systems, the company said today.The DARPA CFAR program aims to find breakthroughs in defensive cyber techniques to protect existing and future software systems in military and civilian contexts without having to change the concept of operations for the systems. This is based on the introduction of diversity into the software…

Unmanned Systems

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Pentagon

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Congress

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Congress

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