Tag Archives: Carnegie Mellon

Scott Stapp, chief technology officer of Northrop Grumman, has said the company is working on artificial intelligence, machine learning, command-and-control and battle management concepts for internal research and defense efforts, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded cryptography and data sciences company Duality Technologies a $14.5 million contract to help develop an encryption concept for privacy-sensitive applications such as health care and finance.

Next Century has received a three-year contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to develop a signals intelligence-based tool that will work to forecast societal events as part of IARPA’s Mercury Program. The SIGINT-based Anticipation of Future Events technology will be built to detect and predict terrorist or military activities, civil unrest and rare …

Brian Neely started his career at American Systems in 1996 for his first post-college position in industry and now holds the dual roles of chief information officer and chief technical officer at the employee-owned government services contractor. Neely oversees planning and management functions for the company’s technology and information management-related resources and has also …

IntelliDyne has attained a capability maturity model integration for development level 3 rating from the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. The CMMI-DEV appraisal suggests that IntelliDyne has continued to improve its business operations and projects using standard process assets, the consulting firm said June 12. Richard Sears, IntelliDyne director of software …

Sabre Systems has attained Carnegie Mellon’s Capability Maturity Model Integration Maturity Level 3 for Services, which work to demonstrate best practices for meeting meet services guidelines. CMMI-SVC aims to set  standards for managing works and processes, establishing services and delivering offerings, Sabre said Monday. ChangeBridge Consulting Inc. conducted the appraisal, …

Raytheon‘s intelligence and information systems business has renewed a certification from Carnegie Mellon University. The company said the business reached a CMMI Level 3 rating attained by only 52 percent of all U.S. appraisals recorded by the university’s CMMI Institute. “This is a huge achievement that demonstrates our continued focus …

A research project led by SAIC Inc. is working on a program for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that can detect suspicious online behavior before an insider creates chaos, according to a report from Defense Systems. The Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales program seeks to create, adapt and apply …

Average Internet users who think online privacy tools adequately protect them have a problem according to Carnegie Mellon University researchers: the tools do not work all that well. In a 38-page report, the researchers determined the tools were more likely to confuse the average user and may in fact do …

SAIC’s Intelligence Systems Business Unit and Cyber and Information Solutions Business Unit won recognition from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute. SEI awarded the business units a Capability Maturity Model Integration Maturity Level 3 rating in recognition of improvement and development of best practices that improve the quality and …

Cybersecurity is moving away from being merely an IT solution to include the human factor in cybersecurity as humans can make or break a good security system. Social engineering attacks that convince users to click on links that download malware to computers are an easier method of gaining access to …

Researchers say that security questions on websites need to be replaced with harder more complex questions. A study, from the University of Cambridge,  proved the ease of guessing answers to common questions. Another study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft proved that 17% of answers can be guessed by …

Northrop Grumman has reached out to three major cyber research universities to help advance research and develop effective cybersecurity solutions. The three schools, Carnegie Mellon, Purdue University and MIT, were asked to join a Cybersecurity Research Consortium. The consortium is meant to leverage the collective capabilities and expertise of the …