Tag Archives: Georgia Tech

Jacobs Engineering recently hosted a national competition on space exploration technologies to support NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

Expanse announced on Tuesday that retired U.S. Navy Adm. James "Sandy" Winnefeld has joined the company’s advisory board. He will advise on Expanse’s national security business, as well as its positioning for C-suites and boards.

Charles River Analytics has received funds in the amount of $4.5M to support a reasoning testing project in support of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.

A Department of Energy supercomputer that deploys over 27K Nvidia graphics processing units has helped a Georgia Tech University-led team conduct early research into propulsion system development.

Twelve universities will work to develop an eco-friendly road vehicle for a Department of Energy-supported competition with General Motors and software firm MathWorks serving as co-sponsors. The four-year EcoCAR Mobility Challenge tasks teams to each modify a 2019 Chevrolet Blazer into an an energy-efficient vehicle geared for carsharing uses, EcoCAR …

Georgia Tech officially named the engineered biosystems building after Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, and his wife Helen during the university’s homecoming festivities held Friday in Atlanta. The Roger A. and Helen B. Krone Engineered Biosystems Building has a 219,000-square-foot space for offices and laboratories to facilitate research across systems biology, cell …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected a team composed of Xerox’s PARC subsidiary, Siemens, Georgia Tech and Michigan State University to build digital modeling tools designed to transform manufacturing processes through the TRAansformative DESign program. DARPA’s TRADES program seeks to further develop computer-aided design software to fabricate complex objects …

Boeing and the Georgia Institute of Technology have opened a development research facility as part of efforts to help address technical challenges related to manufacturing. The Boeing Manufacturing Development Center located at Georgia Tech’s Delta Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility is built to encourage collaboration between researchers and engineering students on …

Georgia Tech has named the engineered biosystems building after Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, and his wife Helen after the university received a gift from the couple. The Roger A. and Helen B. Krone Engineered Biosystems Building at Georgia Tech seeks to advance research efforts in biosciences and …

Patrick Biltgen, technical director of analytics at Vencore, will receive the inaugural Neil Armstrong Award of Excellence from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation for his research work and efforts to expand science and technology-related exploration initiatives. ASF will present the award to Biltgen during the foundation’s Innovators Gala to be held on …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has picked five organizations to create computing platforms designed to analyze and extract insights from large volumes of data. Intel, Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm Intelligent Solutions, Georgia Tech and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will develop “graph analytics processors” under the Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit program, DARPA …

Airbus has formed a new subsidiary that aims to offer aerial imagery services across the energy, agriculture, insurance and state and local government sectors. Airbus Aerial has main offices in the U.S. and Europe and seeks to use aerospace and software platforms in efforts to help customers obtain and analyze data from unmanned aerial vehicles, …

James Winnefeld, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a retired U.S. Navy admiral, has joined Perthera as a senior adviser of the McLean, Virginia-based precision medicine company. The 37-year Navy veteran will advise Perthera on business matters, the company said Tuesday. “I have had the opportunity to become a board member or a …

NASA has picked two proposals to establish research institutes that will work on space technology platforms designed to extend human presence in long-duration exploration missions. The agency will award each Space Technology Research Institute up to $15 million in funds over five years to develop technology platforms in the areas of …

Five university teams will submit concepts for in-space spacecraft assembly as part of a challenge sponsored by the Game-Changing Development Program of NASA‘s space technology mission directorate. NASA said Dec. 16 one team each from Tulane University and University of Colorado Boulder, two from University of Maryland and one combined team from Georgia …