Overview
- The FBI opened the Kinetic Cyber Range on its Huntsville, Alabama campus in February 2025 and the bureau released an interior video on June 10 that gave the public its first detailed look inside.
- The indoor mock town covers about 22,000 square feet and includes a gas station, hospital, courthouse, shops, homes and working traffic systems that are wired with real devices to behave like a live community.
- A compact on‑site data center with more than 200 physical servers runs simulations and hosts malware so instructors can launch live attack scenarios and study how threats move through connected systems.
- All systems in the range are isolated from the public internet and built to mimic cramped corporate server rooms so trainees can safely practice high‑pressure digital forensics and recovery steps after an attack.
- Since opening the range has trained over 1,400 investigators from the FBI and partner agencies such as the U.S. Army, NASA and local police, and the public video has prompted praise for preparedness alongside questions about cost and oversight.