Air Force developing cyber weapon locator

Vencore Labs has been awarded a $9 million Air Force contract to develop technology to locate hostile cyber weapons.

Vencore will provide "research, development, demonstration and delivery of a Scalable and Holistic Energy CybeR-weapon Localization and Characterization (SHERLOC) system that is capable of rapidly localizing and characterizing cyber-weapons that have gained access to power grid infrastructure and able to map industrial control systems, gather configuration data, determine which devices are behaving incorrectly, and discover and characterize malware," according to the Department of Defense contract announcement.

The Air Force Research Laboratory contract is scheduled for completion by July 2020.

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