*Oh brother.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/DARP12308.xml&headline=DARPA%20Unveils%20Cyber%20Warfare%20Range&channel=defense
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"Cyber weapon researchers worry that pieces of the digital warfare puzzle are still missing, in particular projection of new threats that foes may throw at the U.S. But U.S. Defense Department researchers may have an answer in the form of a new proving grounds of sorts.
" “Who’s looking at what’s coming next?” asks Rance Walleston, director of BAE Systems’ Information Operations Initiative. “That’s still weak.”
"Already, “we are seeing the threats shifting,” says Aaron Penkacik, director of BAE Systems’ Collaborative Technology Alliance that works with small companies and universities around the world to create and developed specialized materials and technologies. “As you go into a new theater of operations, you see [advanced communications and new uses for networks] pop-up everywhere. The threat is there, ad-hoc, undefined and asymmetric. So you have to stand up your capability quickly to defend and fight your networks.”
"The BAE executive says the ramifications are already playing out in real ways. “It’s changing the way we think about deploying software-defined radios,” he says by way of example. “We’re using common modules that have software functions that are adaptable in real time as the threat changes.”
"And today, as there are specialized test ranges for all types of radars and weapons, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has planned a new program called the National Cyber Range..."
