The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate has awarded $11.7 million through 13contracts for cyber security research. The awards were made under Broad Agency Announcement 07-09. The recipients are: Applied Visions, Inc.; Colorado State Univ.; Digital Bond, Inc.; Georgia Tech Research Corp.; IBM [IBM]; ITT [ITT]/Dolphin Technology; Johns Hopkins Univ.; Packet Clearing House, Inc.; Sandia National Laboratories; Secure64 Software Corp.; Univ. of California at San Diego; and Washington State Univ. Each awardee will address one of nine technical topic areas: botnets and other malware; composable and scalable secure systems; cyber security metrics; data anonymization tools and techniques; insider threat detection and mitigation; Internet tomography/topography; network data visualization for information assurance; process control system security; and the routing security management tool.