The FBI built a fake town to rehearse attacks on your industry.
Inside a 22,000 square-foot warehouse in Huntsville, Alabama, the FBI has built a functioning replica of a U.S. community — hospital, power company, courthouse, grocery mart, hotel, and homes — to train investigators on real ransomware and cyber-intrusion scenarios. The targets they're rehearsing for are the same ones being hit today.
A functioning replica of where breaches actually happen.
The Kinetic Cyber Range opened in February 2025 and has already trained more than 1,400 investigators from the FBI and partner agencies. Every building is wired with real devices and real systems that behave the way they would in production — including a data center with more than 200 physical Windows and Linux servers. Simulated attacks run end-to-end without leaving the facility.
The reason the FBI built it matters more than the building itself: investigators need to make high-pressure, real-time decisions when hospital systems go dark, when a power company is held hostage, or when a small business can't process a payment. Those are the scenarios the FBI expects to keep responding to.
If your industry is in the range, it's in the threat model.
Hospitals & healthcare
The range includes a working hospital because health systems are where ransomware does the most physical harm. The FBI specifically rehearses 'hospital systems going dark' scenarios.
Utilities & power
A modeled power company sits inside the range. Critical-infrastructure attacks are the FBI's top-ranked ongoing threat in its 2025 report.
Small businesses
Gas stations, grocery marts, and hotels are wired with real devices. The FBI is preparing investigators for the small-business breaches that dominate IC3 complaints.
Courthouses & local government
Municipal targets remain a steady ransomware focus. The range includes a functioning courthouse to mirror that reality.
The FBI is preparing to investigate the attack. You should be preparing to prevent it.
Law-enforcement readiness happens after the breach. It does not replace the preventative work — segmentation, identity hardening, incident-response planning, and ransomware-recovery drills — that has to happen before an attacker is inside your environment. The organizations that fared best in the FBI's 2025 data shared the same trait: they had already worked with a qualified cybersecurity expert.
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Sources: FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2025 Annual Report; FBI: Inside the Kinetic Cyber Range ; TechCrunch coverage .