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Cyber

DoD Supporting New Cyber Development Center For Manufacturing Industry

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, March 12th, 2018

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The Department of Defense is supporting a new partnership with a cyber design institute to develop new solutions for improving the cyber security of the manufacturing industry.The Digital Manufacturing Design and Innovation Institute (DMDII) in Chicago opened the Cyber Hub for Manufacturing on Monday, after receiving $750,000 in DoD seed funding. The effort will bring together new private-public partnerships to test innovative cyber security capabilities.“The launch of the Cyber Hub for Manufacturing embodies why DMDII exists. We need to think…

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