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Cyber

DoD’s Innovation Unit Seeking Solutions For Cyber Vulnerabilities And Data Analytics

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, June 16th, 2017

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The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) is seeking new requests for proposals from industry professionals on projects related to automated vulnerability detection and remediation, as well as supply visualization and analytics.In its call for “Automated Vulnerability Detection and Remediation” proposals, DIUx is seeking automated systems help point out cyber weaknesses in DoD systems without source code, and which also have the ability to then generate patches for those vulnerabilities.The window to submit proposals for this project…

Congress

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