General Dynamics IT launches cyber accelerator to speed threat detection
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Nick Wakeman
VENIN is the 10th accelerator started by GDIT and focuses on using automation to mitigate cyber threats.
General Dynamics has launched another of what it calls “accelerators” to deliver technology solutions more quickly to government agencies.
The newest one is the VENIN Full-Spectrum Cyber Digital Accelerator, with VENIN being an acronym for vulnerability exploitation and network infiltration navigation. The solutions coming out of the accelerator will focus on mitigating cyber threats.
VENIN will use artificial intelligence to improve cyber situational awareness, automate threat detection and response, and enable threat hunting. GDIT said it expects the solutions coming out of the accelerator to support mission areas such as defensive cyber, cyber threat intelligence, cyber operations and attack prevention, and critical infrastructure protection.
“From enabling battlefield operations to supporting real-time intelligence to protecting critical infrastructure, cyber underpins every aspect of modern mission execution,” Aaron Bedrowsky, GDIT’s senior vice president for intelligence and homeland security, said in a release Thursday.
GDIT is working with several commercial technology companies in the accelerator, but a spokesman declined to name them.
VENIN is the 10th digital accelerator that GDIT has created. Other accelerators are working in areas such as zero trust, post-quantum cryptography, hybrid multi-cloud, 5G and digital engineering.
The company says it has won contracts with a combined $7 billion ceiling through these accelerators during 2024.