Vencore Labs receives DARPA contract
Vencore Labs, the applied research organisation of Vencore, has been awarded a contract by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the second phase of its Wireless Network Defense (WND) programme.
The $4.8 million contract involves technologies that protect wireless networks against attacks on the control plane, which includes the networking and data link layers. The focus will be on the application of technologies that were developed during the first phase to US military-relevant heterogeneous wireless networks.
Steve Omick, president, Vencore Labs, said: 'Securing wireless networks is incredibly complex and DARPA is renowned for attacking these types of hard-to-solve problems. Vencore Labs has decades of experience in working with these types of networks and finding solutions for the types of issues that they present.'
Vencore Labs' work include technologies to detect and mitigate the impact of network attacks and to alert other network nodes of unreliable network elements.
According to the company, its output will be applicable to multiple network technologies and be able to protect these disparate networks using a common defensive framework; and will deliver a wireless defense framework that is robust in the face of attacks, has a very high accuracy rate, and imposes very little overhead on the network.
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