DARPA’s Rapid Power Grid Restoration Tech Goes Live
Some of the tech built to quickly restore power after a cyberattack is now operational on parts of the U.S. grid, with more deployments to follow. This week's news of RedEcho shows, yet again, it can't happen soon enough.
By Brad D. Williams on March 04, 2021 at 4:00 AM
WASHINGTON: DARPA’s program to develop technologies for rapidly restoring power after a grid cyberattack successfully completed its seventh live exercise in a testbed environment. Some of the program’s technologies have already been transitioned to operational use on parts of the U.S. power grid, with plans for wider deployment in the future.
“The tools and technologies developed under the RADICS program could provide situational awareness and other measures to aid in recovery efforts following a cyberattack on the U.S. grid,†Walter Weiss, DARPA program manager in the Information Innovation Office (I2O), said in an interview.
The tech developed under DARPA’s program — which was dubbed Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation, and Characterization Systems (RADICS) — emerges at a time when U.S. authorities are increasingly wary of cyberattacks by adversaries. One RADICS toolset is now operationally deployed by several electric co-ops and another is in use on parts of the U.S. grid.
https://breakingdefense.com/2021/03/darpas-rapid-power-grid-restoration-tech-goes-live/
