The FBI has revealed a dedicated cyber training facility in Alabama that replicates elements of a real community for conducting realistic cyberattack simulations. The program is built around a replica town housed inside a building at the FBI’s campus in Huntsville, Alabama. Reporting across outlets describes the site as roughly 22,000 square feet and designed to let agents practice investigating and responding to threats in environments similar to those faced in the field.
The facility, which sources identify as the Kinetic Cyber Range, includes staged infrastructure such as a hospital and a power company, along with systems and servers used to run controlled scenarios. Coverage says the training focuses on activities including ransomware investigations, digital forensics, and testing responses to attacks that could affect critical infrastructure.
One outlet also states the facility opened in February 2025 and has already trained more than 1,400 students, including FBI personnel and partners from other federal and local agencies. The FBI positions the range as a way to improve hands-on readiness for cyber investigations and incident response, using consistent, repeatable simulations.
