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 »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.
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 »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 »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.
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 »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 »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.
Read More »Report: China Hackers Attempt to Steal Academe-Based Maritime Military Research
Hackers from China have attempted cyber attacks on around 27 universities around the world, with the University of Washington and Massachusetts Institute of Technology among targets, Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Cybersecurity professionals and U.S. officials have said that these attacks are part of China's plans to steal maritime technology research of the U.S. military, the report noted.
Read More »DoD Awards Four Grants for Manufacturing Engineering Education Support
Battelle Education, Clemson University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining have received grants with a combined total of $5.7M under a Defense Department engineering education effort. The recipients will use the funds to administer educational programs in the manufacturing engineering area under …
Read More »DoD Taps MIT for Case Study on NSWC Crane’s State Collaborations
The Defense Department‘s Laboratories Office has selected the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division’s collaborative ecosystem. MIT will conduct a case study to identify mission impacts of NSWC Crane’s partnerships with various state organizations including the Indiana Office of Defense Development and Indiana …
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