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DoD Boosting Spending, Industry Cooperation For Cyber

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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

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By Calvin Biesecker Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn yesterday said the Pentagon is seeking to add about $500 million to its cyber security research activities and is also expanding its cooperation with private industry so that the Defense Department can better learn commercial information technology practices for cyber security. The additional research funds are focused in areas such as cloud computing, virtualization and encrypted processing, Lynn said at the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco. Funding will also go for…

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