Government of the United States are building their own "scale" the Internet to conduct cyberwarfare training.
Several organizations, including defense company Lockheed Martin, working on a prototype of a virtual shooting range. "
This system allows researchers to simulate an attack by foreign forces and US-based hackers.
More than $ 500 million (£ 309m) has been awarded by the Department of Defense to "cyber technology" to develop.
Several organizations, including defense company Lockheed Martin, working on a prototype of a virtual shooting range. "
This system allows researchers to simulate an attack by foreign forces and US-based hackers.
More than $ 500 million (£ 309m) has been awarded by the Department of Defense to "cyber technology" to develop.
The National Cyber Range project is being overseen by the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (Darpa), which was also involved in early network research that led to the internet.
When ready, it will function as a test-bed for defensive and possibly offensive technologies such as network protection systems.
Having a controllable mini-internet would allow researchers to carry-out experiments "in days rather than the weeks it currently takes," Darpa spokesman Eric Mazzacone told the Reuters news agency.
Unlike the real internet, the in-house version could be wiped or reset between tests, explained Mr Mazzacone.
Development of the National Cyber Range is currently in the hands of several organisations, including Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Lockheed Martin.
One of their prototypes will be selected to go into operation later in the year.
Act of war
The United States has been gradually increasing funding for internet security-related projects.
In 2008, the US military was the subject of a serious cyber attack when part of its network became infected by a worm known as agent.btz.
President Obama, in May 2009, declared the cyber threat to be one of the "most serious" challenges facing the country.
Since then, his government claims to have been the subject of several attempted attacks, originating from overseas.
Lockheed Martin, one of the contractors involved in the National Cyber Range project was itself the subject of a security breach in May 2011.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon said it planned to publish proposals to categorise cyber attacks as acts of war.
source : BBC
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