System High Corp. awarded $21M option to support DARPA security program

System High Corp. has been awarded a $21 million option to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Security and Intelligence Directorate (SID) Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) Support program.

According to a Defense Department release, the SID SETA program develops and uses state-of-the-art tools and concepts to find solutions to emerging security issues while maintaining compliance with applicable security requirements.

This option brings the total contract value to $97.6 million.

Work will be performed in Arlington, Va., and is expected to be completed in March 2017.