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 medium-term solutions for the development of new and enhanced technologies for the detection of, prevention of, and response to cyber attacks on the nation’s critical information infrastructure based on customer requirements. Some of the work will also be for improving the security of existing deployed technologies and to ensure the security of new emerging cyber security systems.
Finally, under the BAA, S&T wants to facilitate the transfer of these technologies into operational environments.
The awardees are: Applied Visions, Inc.; Carnegie Mellon Univ.; Columbia, Univ.; Def-Logix; George Mason Univ.; Georgia Tech Research Corp.; HRL Laboratories, LLC; IBM [IBM] Research; International Computer Science Institute; ITT Advanced Engineering & Sciences Division; Kestrel Technology, LLC; Merit Network, Inc.; Morgridge Institute for Research; Naval Postgraduate School; Northrop Grumman [NOC] Information Systems segment; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Purdue Univ.; Raytheon’s [RTN] BBN Technologies unit; Rutgers Univ.; The Trustees of Princeton Univ.; Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham; Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Trustees of Dartmouth College; Trustees of Indiana Univ.; Univ. of California, San Diego; Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Univ. of Maryland; and Univ. of Southern California Information Sciences Institute.