The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command says, that it is creating a fully operational, multi-organizational cyber campus at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. Two buildings will house the cybersecurity mission tasked with uncovering, dissecting and reporting on system vulnerabilities to cyber exploits, malicious hardware, software or firmware. The center will work with other government agencies at the highest classification levels.

Redstone Arsenal - Photo by Ellen Hudson, Courtesy of the U.S. ArmyThe focus is to provide cybersecurity supporting aviation and missile system customers and to provide research and development of cybersecurity solutions to address their most pressing challenges.

The campus will serve as a technical resource for conducting vulnerability assessments from component level to joint system of systems, advanced integrity analysis, supply chain security evaluations, requirements analysis and analysis of cyber threat intelligence and security risks.

It will include a range of networks and multiple levels of security from unclassified to top secret, supporting integration with the intelligence community and other cyber agencies. The center is expected to be fully operational in 2017.

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