
The Air Force awarded root9B Technologies a cyber operations training contract worth about $5.3 million, the company said Wednesday.The contract is a four year Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with a maximum ceiling of $6.4 million. The agreement directs root9B to provide initial qualification training (IQT) to airmen through an Applied Cyber Operations Training (ACOT) course curriculum. This training is a follow-on course to the Air Force’s already established Cyber Training Pipeline, root9B said."Root9B possesses a unique concentration of former government…