DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 7, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MacAulay-Brown, Inc. (MacB), a leading National Security company providing innovative engineering and technical solutions to Defense, Intelligence, Homeland Security and Federal agencies, announced today that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by the United States Air Force to support the 90th Information Operations Squadron (IOS), Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.
Under the terms of the Guardian contract, MacB will provide technical support to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) and other law enforcement (LE) and counter-intelligence (CI) organizations by designing and constructing cyber capabilities. In addition, the initiative will assist Air Force Network Defenders and AFOSI Computer Crime Investigators (CCIs) with the detection, containment, collection, analysis and reverse engineering of malicious logic.
"The 90th IOS represents the tip of the spear when it comes to defending the Air Force's communication networks," said William "Bull" Pratt, Senior Vice President of MacB's Information Dominance Division. "Our senior scientists and engineers are looking forward to partnering with the Air Force to increase the Nation's cyber capabilities that will ensure critical networks are available in a crisis."
According to the USAF, the 90th IOS produces real-time cyber capability support for platform deployments, sustainment, defensive applications and complex malware signatures. It provides network router security innovation and operational platform tool development, malware harvesting, analysis and repurposing, plus it develops timely network modeling and simulation for Joint and AF cyber exercises, developmental test, operational assessment and innovative concept exploration.
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