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BAE Secures U.S. Military Contract to Protect Aganist Cyber Attacks

Via UPI.

British company BAE Systems is making a new military communications network protected against cyberattacks.

The company said in a statement Thursday it was producing what it called a new "intrinsically secure" mobile military communications network that could resist cyberattacks.

BAE Systems said it would make and check out network protocols that would protect the integrity, availability, reliability, confidentiality, and safety of network communications and data.

The $8.5 million project is being funded by U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- DARPA and the program is called the Intrinsically Assurable Mobile Ad hoc Network. The aim of the project is to produce solutions to the weaknesses of current mobile ad hoc networks which are vulnerable to passive analysis and manipulation by enemy action, BAE Systems said.

posted by Fergie @ 4/30/2008 06:22:00 PM