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Goal Of DARPA’s ‘Plan X’ Is To Make Cyber Warfare More Manageable

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

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The goal of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) “Plan X” cyber-offense research program is to help make the offensive aspect of cyber warfare more manageable and controllable, according to DARPA’s chief. DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar told reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon that Plan X, formally known as Foundational Cyberwarfare, is specifically about building the technology infrastructure to help launch cyber warfare from where “you hope that it’s going to do what you think it’s going to do,” as…

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