{"id":42690,"date":"2017-10-26T18:33:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2017\/10\/26\/in-first-pentagons-silicon-valley-office-transitions-program-into-service\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:31:05","slug":"in-first-pentagons-silicon-valley-office-transitions-program-into-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/newsletters\/2017\/10\/26\/in-first-pentagons-silicon-valley-office-transitions-program-into-service\/","title":{"rendered":"In first, DIUx hands off cyber pilot project to Army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Pentagon\u2019s commercial technology hub has successfully transitioned a pilot from pilot to full-blown contract, a milestone for the 2-year-old office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx, moved a pilot project with commercial cybersecurity firm Tanium into a $750 million, five-year contract with the U.S. Army. That contract was signed Sept. 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tanium provides endpoint (think laptops or desktops) cybersecurity monitoring for large-scale clients. While Tanium works with a number of major financial institutions, the U.S. Army requirement marks the company\u2019s largest single-user base \u2014 up to 1 million endpoints under the contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a bug or hack is found on one system, Tanium can run a search across all users in roughly 15 seconds, discovering where the vulnerability spread, explained Ralph Kahn, Tanium\u2019s vice president for federal affairs at the company. And because Tanium keeps historic data, it can go backward and look for where the vulnerability first appeared as well as discover the impact it had on the infected system.<\/p>\n\n\n\t