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IARPA Awards BAE $11.4 Million Contract To Develop Cyber Attack Prediction Technology

Wednesday, October 19th, 2016

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BAE Systems was awarded a contract by the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) worth a total lifetime value of $11.4 million to develop forecasting and early detection of cyber attacks technologies for the U.S military and intelligence agencies, the company said Oct. 13.While current cyber defense methods generally react to attacks already underway or completed, the IARPA Cyber-attack Automated Unconventional Sensor Environment (CAUSE) program seeks to create technologies that will accurately predict threats and automatically provide timely warnings…

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