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Navy Solicits For Research Supporting Weapons Systems Cyber Warfare Capabilities

Wednesday, May 20th, 2015

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The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Cyber Warfare Detachment (CWD) announced a solicitation for technical/cost proposals for research support in “resilient cyber warfare capabilities” for NAVAIR Weapons Systems on FedBizOpps on May 15.The broad agency announcement (BAA) announcement is meant to arrange appropriate R&D to fill the gaps in the cyber warfare capabilities for NAVAIR weapons systems to achieve the CWD strategy: “secure weapon systems able to survive and exploit cyber warfare.”The NAVAIR CWD develops and assesses cyber warfare capabilities…

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