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Virginia Tech, Defense Firms, Receive Grant For Cyber Security Research Center

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

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Virginia Tech, in cooperation with L-3 Communications [LLL], Northrop Grumman [NOC], General Dynamics [GD] Advanced Information Systems, and Verisign Labs, yesterday said it received a five-year continuing grant to establish a National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) site for cyber security. The center will initially research topics to include secure computing architectures, cloud computing security, visualization tools for cyber defense, securing critical infrastructure, wireless security, and malware detection and mitigation. This new cybersecurity site joins the Security…

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Congress

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Army

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Congress

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