The Pentagon has awarded Raytheon a $3.5 million contract over two years to procure a software program that can monitor user behavior on computer networks without a user's knowledge as part of an insider-threat detection initiative. Raytheon announced today its participation in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (ADAMS) initiative. "This project will provide unprecedented understanding of the insider threat at a time when the U.S. government is mandating that agencies implement automated insider threat...
