Raytheon wins DARPA cyber defense contract

Michael Peck

Oct 5, 2015

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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (July 14, 2015) Information Systems Technician 1st Class Heather Edbauer and Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Marissa Toepfer, attached to Pre-commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), track inventory while issuing new network computers for shipboard offices. Ford Sailors are outfitting the ship in preparation for a scheduled crew move aboard later this summer. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Joshua J. Wahl/Released)

Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded a $12.2 million DARPA cyber defense contract.

The contract, part of the Edge-Directed Cyber Technologies for Reliable Mission Communication (EdgeCT) program, will focus on information flow over wide area networks.

“The Raytheon BBN-led team seeks to develop an intrinsically robust overlay network, interconnecting users through secure connections,” said a Raytheon news release.

“Through these connections, the software could continuously monitor events in the larger network and their effect on traffic flow. The overlay network may also exchange information between nodes in each user group about network conditions and then dynamically configure the way the network handles application traffic to maximize performance so that critical communications are transmitted as quickly as possible.”

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Michael Peck

Michael Peck is a correspondent for Defense News and a columnist for the Center for European Policy Analysis. He holds an M.A. in political science from Rutgers University. Find him at theuncommondefense.com. His email is mikedefense1@gmail.com.

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