Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Defense Against Cyber Attacks (DCA) on MANETS

Project Overview: DCA MANET (Mobile Ad hoc Networks) focused on developing technologies to automatically detect and reconfigure MANET systems if a cyber attack occurs. This detection and reconfiguring protects information and allow missions to be completed successfully in the presence of advanced cyber attacks.

When completed, the DCA MANET program will protect future networks from things such as worms, malicious code, cyber intrusions, infrastructure attacks, and software or hardware failures. By sensing an attack and acting quickly, DCA MANET will limit the spread of an attack and the damage done a network. Since the system will be designed to automatically reconfigure MANET systems, the transmittal of vital information should not be disturbed. With multiple nodes working within the same network, nodes that are affected should be able to pick up and process information lost from nodes that were not involved in the cyber attack.

CenGen Inc is participating in the testing and evaluating of DCA MANET technologies.