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DARPA Awards Raytheon $9 Million In Contracts To Develop Tech To Protect U.S. Power Grid From Cyber Attacks

Wednesday, December 14th, 2016

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The Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Raytheon [RTN] multiple contracts worth a total of $9 million to research and develop technologies to help better protect U.S. power grids from cyber attacks, the company said Dec. 5.Awarded under DARPA’s Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems program, the contracts aim to develop technologies that will better detect and respond to cyber attacks on the U.S. power grid infrastructure.Raytheon BBN Technologies, a company subsidiary, is set to create…

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