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DHS S&T Awards 29 Organizations $40M in Cyber R&D Contracts

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate this week awarded 29 organization 34 contracts worth a combined $40 million to improve the security of federal networks and the Internet. The awards were made by S&T’s Cyber Security Division under a Broad Agency Announcement that includes 14 separate topic areas including software assurance, insider threat, moving target defense, enterprise level security metrics, network mapping and measurement, and modeling of Internet attacks. The BAA called for near and…

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