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6 Research Teams to Work on DARPA’s Morphogenic Interfaces Program

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced the selection of six research teams for a program to improve the persistence and performance of anti-corrosion coatings, batteries and other electrochemical platforms that protect and power critical defense hardware and systems. The teams of university and industry researchers will develop solid-liquid interfaces for corrosion-resistant coatings and […] More

by Jane Edwards May 16, 2022, 11:53 am
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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.

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by Matthew Nelson December 23, 2020, 5:59 am
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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.

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by Mary-Louise Hoffman December 2, 2020, 9:11 am
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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.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers July 16, 2020, 3:43 am
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BAE Delivers ‘MindfuL’ Machine Learning Performance Assessment Tool to DARPA

BAE Systems has delivered an artificial intelligence-based technology evaluation software to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as part of the latter's Competency-Aware Machine Learning program.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers July 15, 2020, 3:54 am
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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.

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by Matthew Nelson July 10, 2020, 8:01 am
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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.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers June 16, 2020, 3:45 am
in Government Technology, News

AWS’ Dave Levy on Early Learnings From COVID-19 HPC Consortium

Dave Levy, vice president of federal business at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, said there are three early lessons from the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium and one is the capability of new technology platforms to help researchers expedite their work. "Tools including deep learning and artificial intelligence are reducing time to insight for researchers around the world," Levy wrote in a blog post published Thursday.

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by Jane Edwards May 22, 2020, 5:06 am
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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.

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by Matthew Nelson May 7, 2020, 9:39 am
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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.“

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by Brenda Marie Rivers October 31, 2019, 9:16 am
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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.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers August 27, 2019, 7:17 am
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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.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers August 5, 2019, 6:10 am

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