DARPA has announced its Phase I awards to six competing companies for the design and creation of the National Cyber Range:
- BAE Systems$3.3 million
- General Dynamics $1.9 million
- Johns Hopkins University $7.3 million
- Lockheed Martin $5.3 million
- Northrop Grumman $344,097
- Science Applications International Corp. $2.8 million
- Sparta $8.6 million
Aviation Week explains DARPA’s intentions for project:
The range is intended to become the premier U.S. cyber test facility, according to DARPA officials. The products will be unbiased and quantitative assessments of information assurance and survivability tools. The laboratory is to replicate complex, large-scale, heterogeneous networks for current and future Defense Department weapons and operations.
The capabilities to be tested are host-security systems, local-area-network security tools and suites, wide-area network systems operating on unusual bandwidths, tactical networks including the problematic mobile ad hoc networks, and new protocol stacks. Innovations are expected to include development of advanced automated test ranges and the testing of revolutionary cyber-research programs.
The competing companies will eventually be asked to build working prototypes of the range that can perform the following tasks:
- demonstration of packet capture, event log collection, malware event collection and automated attacks
- Responsive traffic generators will have to drive office software products, browsers, media players and e-mail clients
- Traffic generation systems will involve incoming/outgoing e-mail, port scanning and automated attacks
By phase 3, the candidate system will have to reconstitute test nodes within 15 minutes, reconfigure the range within one hour, create a 10,000-node test from DARPA-provided requirement within two hours and perform time synchronization across all machines to within 1 millisecond, and demonstrate human-level behavior on 80 percent of traffic-generated events.
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