"Applied cybersecurity research for better protection of critical national infrastructure sectors"
Cyber Apex Solutions, LLC, has been awarded a five-year Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with a maximum value of $70 million by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) to aid applied research of prototype cybersecurity technologies that would be used in the protection of critical infrastructure sectors against cyberattacks. Funding provided through this contract would help advance the assessment and transition of these prototype cyberdefenseses. Cyber Apex Solutions will work with the S&T Next Generation Cyber Infrastructure Apex (NGCI Apex) program. This article further discusses what the OTA provides, which sector of the critical infrastructure is currently being focused on, and how NGCI Apex and Cyber Apex Solutions will work together.