To aid in the war against cyber attacks, Air Force Research Lab’s Rome, N.Y., directorate has awarded a $1 million contract to 21st Century Technologies, Inc., an Austin, Tex.-based company founded in 1999 by two Massachusetts Institutes of Technology scientists. According to a company release, the work, which will involve use of the company’s “flagship intelligence analytics platform Lynxeon,” will take place primarily at Lackland AFB, Tex., where USAF wants to install its new cyber-centric 24th Air Force. According to an Austin American-Statesman report, company CEO Irene Williams said Lynxeon analyzes data from cyber attacks to identify patterns and methods that could ascertain future targets. She told the newspaper, “This is a new battlefront for us, and we feel … very fortunate to be at the forefront of this area.” The company release noted the widely reported July 4-8 attacks against numerous US government agencies and commercial Websites and stated that its pioneering software will aid discovery and prediction of such attacks to cut them off “long before it reaches its final destination.”
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Dick Cheney, who died Nov. 3 at 84, is best remembered by most Americans as among the most powerful Vice Presidents in history, a consummate Washington insider who had previously served in the Nixon administration, was Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford, a Congressman for a decade, and Secretary…
