MacAulay-Brown receives USAF cybersecurity contract

The US Air Force (USAF) has awarded a multi-million dollar cybersecurity contract to safeguard its critical assets and to support the 90th Information Operations Squadron (IOS), Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, US.

MacB’s Information Dominance Division senior vice president William Pratt said, "The 90th IOS represents the tip of the spear when it comes to defending the Air Force’s communication networks."

"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."

Under the terms of the contract, the company will design and build cyber capabilities that will support the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) and other law enforcement (LE) and counter-intelligence (CI) organisations.

Additionally, the company will provide services such as detection, containment, collection, analysis and reverse engineering that will aid in fighting malicious logic and to assist Air Force Network Defenders and AFOSI Computer Crime Investigators (CCI).

The 90th IOS produces real-time cyber capability support for platform deployments, sustainment, defensive applications and complex malware signatures, apart from providing network router security innovation and operational platform tool development, malware harvesting, analysis and repurposing.

The squadron is also tasked with developing timely network modelling and simulation for Joint and AF cyber exercises, developmental test, operational assessment and innovative concept exploration.