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USC Joins Northrop Grumman Cyber Research Consortium

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

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Adding skills in big data, Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday said that the Univ. of Southern California (USC) has joined the company’s Cybersecurity Research Consortium. Northrop Grumman said that USC’s leadership in big data, computer science and informatics will expand the consortium’s research capabilities to advance solutions to counter the newest and most pressing cyber threats facing the United States. “In today’s cyber environment, one of the biggest challenges our customers face is sifting through the enormous amounts of data flowing…

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