Cyber

On August 4, in Las Vegas, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will host the world’s first, all-machine hacking tournament. This Cyber Grand Challenge will mark the culmination of an ambitious three-year effort to develop advanced, autonomous systems that can to detect, evaluate, and patch software vulnerabilities before adversaries have a chance to exploit them.

The Memex program seeks to develop the next generation of search technologies and revolutionize the discovery, organization and presentation of search results.

Cyberspace is now recognized as a critical domain of operations by the U.S. military and its protection is a national security issue.

Mr. Frank Pound joined DARPA as a program manager in January 2014. He is principally interested in cyber operations and providing a useful interface to the “living Internet of things” such that it can be more easily measured and understood.