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DHS Awards $16 Million In Contracts To Help Detect Vulnerabilities In New Software

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded Kestrel Technology, LLC and GrammaTech, Inc. separate contracts worth about $8 million each to help improve static analysis tools used by developers to detect potential vulnerabilities in new software systems, DHS said the week of March 6.Both contracts were issued as part of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency (HSARPA) Cyber Security Division’s (CSD) Software Assurance Program. The program is working with cyber security researchers in the…

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