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DARPA Awards Seven Contracts For National Cyber Range Program

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Thursday, January 15th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last week awarded seven contracts for engineering plans for a National Cyber Range (NCR) that would be used to test and validate advanced cyber research technologies. The ultimate goal is the creation of a sophisticated and comprehensive testbed that will be able to assess "a network's ability to defend against a wide variety of cyber attacks," a DARPA spokeswoman said. The awardees and their respective amounts are: SPARTA, Inc., $8.6…

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