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

Thursday, October 13th, 2016

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

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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 Thursday.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 of…

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