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 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.