Perspecta Labs receives $4.8 million option for DARPA information security program

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First Lt. Duane Ruch, a native of Perryville, Mo., checks his cells phone before giving the order to rig trees with C-4 during a demolitions exercise. Soldiers assigned to A Company, 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, rigged trees with C-4 plastic explosive during a training exercise at Forward Operating Base Sparta on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 21, 2013. The exercise allowed the soldiers to train with demolitions and taking down trees to block enemy advance on roadways. (U.S. Air Force photo/Justin Connaher)

Perspecta Labs, has received a $4.8 million contract modification for Phase 2 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Secure Handhelds on Assured Resilient networks at the tactical Edge (SHARE) program.

Under Phase 2 of the SHARE program, Perspecta Labs will be advancing its VeriNet, Verifiably Secure NDN (Named Data Networking)-based Coalition Networks, technology which enables secure information sharing between the U.S. and its coalition partners.

VeriNet allows for the dissemination of information securely and at multiple levels of security, says Perspecta Labs.

[Image courtesy: U.S. Air Force]