FBI Merges Cyber and Physical Training in Huntsville Facility

The FBI opened the Kinetic Cyber Range, a 22,000-square-foot facility at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, embedding courthouse, hotel, and gas station replicas into a cyber training environment. The shift from isolated network labs to integrated physical spaces reflects how real infrastructure attacks unfold across both IT and operational technology systems, building investigators' compound skills in digital evidence collection and physical scene management simultaneously.