CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
recently awarded Raytheon BBN Technologies $12.2 million under
the Edge-Directed Cyber Technologies for Reliable Mission
Communication (EdgeCT) program to research optimized
information flow for military operations over wide area
networks.
The goal of the EdgeCT program is to ensure
mission-critical communications are less susceptible to potential
network failures resulting from both cyber-attacks and common
network errors. The EdgeCT program uses a new approach to
achieve enhanced reliability by
focusing on adding new capabilities to
the communications devices at the edges of the
network, rather than to the network itself.
"Recovering from network attacks or working around
misconfigurations can disrupt traffic for hours," said Greg Lauer, EdgeCT principal investigator at
Raytheon BBN. "Our aim on the EdgeCT program is to minimize that
disruption to minutes or less. Our approach does not require
control or direct observation of the wide area network and so it
can be easily deployed in end user enclaves."
To accomplish this, the Raytheon BBN-led team seeks to
develop an intrinsically robust overlay network, interconnecting
users through secure connections. 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.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2014 sales of
$23 billion and 61,000 employees
worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in
defense, security and civil markets throughout the world. With a
history of innovation spanning 93 years, Raytheon provides
state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other
capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command,
control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as cyber
security and a broad range of mission support services. Raytheon is
headquartered in Waltham, Mass.
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