Mica Endsley, former chief scientist at the U.S. Air Force, has been named to the board of directors of Charles River Analytics, where she will be tasked to provide guidance and insight in support of corporate governance activities. Endsley currently serves as president at SA Technologies.
Read More »DOE Awards $70M to Reactor Design Concepts
Advanced Reactor Concepts, General Atomics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology will collectively receive a total of $70.4M in funds from the Department of Energy to mature their nuclear reactor concepts as part of the fiscal year 2020 iteration of a technology demonstration program.
Read More »Blue Origin Names Seven Advisory Board Members
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket venture has appointed seven government and industry veterans to its newly formed board of advisers that will counsel the firm's leadership team on space business matters.
Read More »DARPA, Synack Commence Bug-Bounty Program for DoD Hardware, Firmware Security
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Synack officially launched the agency’s first bug-bounty effort focused on identifying vulnerabilities in the Department of Defense’s hardware and firmware protocols.
Read More »First Air Force ‘Datathon’ to Focus on C-17 Scheduling Platform
The U.S. Air Force Chief Data Office will kick off the first in a series of "datathon" events next week as the military branch looks to address scheduling challenges associated with the C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft.
Read More »Members Offer Updates on COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium’s Work
A consortium launched in March to advance research into the novel coronavirus using supercomputers has approved 78 COVID-19 research proposals and has been running 68 projects as of July 1, Nextgov reported Wednesday.
Read More »Raytheon Technologies Joins Global Effort to Develop Contact-Tracing App for COVID-19 Patients
A business unit under Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space segment is working with Apple and Google as well as the academic and public sectors to deploy a COVID-19 contact-tracing app.
Read More »Mitre Names Nadia Schadlow, Daniela Rus as Senior Visiting Fellows; Jason Providakes Quoted
Mitre has tapped Nadia Schadlow, formerly U.S. deputy national security adviser for strategy and Daniela Rus, director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to serve as senior visiting fellows.
Read More »Mitre Helps Form New COVID-19 Response Coalition
Mitre has joined other private organizations to create an industrial health care-focused union against the COVID-19 coronavirus disease.
Read More »MIT-IBM Report: Early AI Adoption Saw 46 Percent Decrease in Job Tasks
IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology conducted research into artificial intelligence’s impact on employment and found that the emerging technology would result in fewer tasks and more focus on work that requires “soft skills.”
Read More »MIT Receives IBM-Donated ‘Satori’ Supercomputer
IBM has donated a computer cluster valued at $11.6M to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help further the university’s artificial intelligence research work, MIT News reported Monday.
Read More »Atlas Research’s Kenneth Kizer: Effective Partnerships Key to Healthcare Innovation
Kenneth Kizer, chief healthcare transformation officer at Atlas Research, said at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology event in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 1 that effective public-private partnerships can drive efforts to improve patient experience and healthcare.
Read More »Sikorsky Engineering, Tech VP Michael Ambrose Nominated to RBC Board
Michael Ambrose, vice president of engineering and technology at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary, has been nominated to join RBC Bearings’ board of directors.
Read More »Charles River Analytics Offers Free Virtual Reality Development Kit
Charles River Analytics has launched a new open-source software development kit designed to help users create augmented and virtual reality programs.
Read More »Samsung, MIT, VA Host Three-Day Healthcare IT Hackathon
Samsung Electronics America, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology jointly hosted a three-day hackathon that challenged participants to create healthcare information technology applications.
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