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Cyber

Rockwell Collins Wins DARPA Cyber Security Contract For New Platforms

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Rockwell Collins [COL] with a contract to provide cyber resilience in military systems, the company said Monday.Rockwell Collins and partners Galois, Data 61, HRL, and the University of Minnesota developed mathematics-based development methods to secure platforms against cyber attacks under DARPA’s High Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) program. HACMS seeks to build technology for the construction of high-assurance cyber-physical systems, DARPA explains on its web page.The newly developed technologies include architectural modeling and…

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