Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that General Mark Milley, chief of staff at the U.S. Army, was selected to the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for supporting development of the service’s competitive technology efforts.
Read More »Michael Kratsios, Deputy US Chief Technology Officer, Inducted Into 2019 Wash100 for Leading Development of AI, Quantum & Other Emerging Tech
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Michael Kratsios, deputy U.S. chief technology officer and deputy assistant to the President at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, was selected to join the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his leadership in the development of quantum, artificial intelligence and other technologies designed to enhance business operations.
Read More »ULA’s Delta V Heavy Rocket Launches NASA Solar Probe
A solar probe that Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory designed and produced for NASA took off Sunday aboard United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Parker Solar Probe will deploy its magnetometer boom and high-gain antenna in the mission’s first week …
Read More »University of Michigan Gets DARPA Grant to Develop “Unhackable” Computer Tech
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a $3.6 million grant to a team led by the University of Michigan to develop a computer technology that would avoid cyber hacks. U-M said Tuesday the Morpheus project will utilize a new hardware design that works to rapidly transmit and destroy information as well …
Read More »Former DoD Adviser Daniel Kliman Named a CNAS Senior Fellow
Daniel Kliman, a U.S. Navy Reserve officer and former senior adviser at the Defense Department, has been named senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific Security Program of the Center for a New American Security. CNAS said Thursday Kliman will focus on research efforts to examine U.S. competition with China, integration of U.S. allies …
Read More »LGS Innovations to Develop Computing Resource Allocation Algorithms Under DARPA Program
LGS Innovations has received a four-year, $7.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create decision-making algorithms for computing resource allocation. The company said Wednesday it aims to develop algorithms and protocols that will work to simultaneously connect, identify and allocate dispersed computing assets under the first phase of …
Read More »Agilent Technologies to Expand Health Research with Thought Leader Award; John Fjeldsted Comments
Agilent Technologies Inc. has awarded Princeton University professor Joshua Rabinowitz a thought leader award intended to expand the company’s support of quantitative analysis of cellular metabolism. The award will support Rabinowitz’ global cell metabolism and regulation research using Agilent’s 6550 MS-QTOF, a mass spectromertry tool, the company announced Thursday. The …
Read More »MITRE, Princeton University Forge Quantum Research Partnership
MITRE Corp. and Princeton University have teamed-up to engineer quantum technologies designed to address cybersecurity, financial engineering and data mining needs for the U.S. As part of the collaboration, MITRE and Princeton have opened a quantum optics laboratory in the university’s Forrestal Campus, N.J. to house scientists and engineers who …
Read More »FTC Names its First Chief Technologist
The Federal Trade Commission has appointed its first chief technologist: Edward W. Felten, who will advise the agency on evolving technology and policy issues. Felten, a professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University, has consulted for federal agencies, including FTC and departments of Justice and Defense. He …
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