[ISN] US cyberwar firing range to demo by July

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/26/cyber_range_demo_date_set/

By Lewis Page
The Register
26th January 2011

DARPA has announced that its planned "National Cyber Range" – an 
artificial, sealed-off internet inhabited by simulated nodes, computers, 
sysadmins, users etc in which the USA can test-fire cyber weapons and 
practice cyber combat – is to reach demonstration status by July this 
year.

Lockheed Martin, working on the Range on behalf of the military 
warboffins, yesterday received an additional $7,360,467 modification to 
a $30.8m Phase II contract announced last January. According to the 
contract modification notice:

    At the completion of the revised Phase II program, the contractor 
    will demonstrate the capabilities of the flexible automated Cyber 
    Test Range NCR ...  The work is expected to be completed July 7, 
    2011.

DARPA has previously specified that the Cyber Range is to be able to 
simulate a network on the same scale as the internet or the US 
military's Global Information Grid. In addition to the various kinds of 
machinery, the Range will also be populated by software "replicants" 
playing the part of human users, admins and other people whose actions 
would register on the network. The replicants' behaviour is to be 
affected realistically as the frightful code bombs and cyber missiles of 
tomorrow devastate their peaceful world, so modelling the war-warez' 
effects accurately.

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