Red Hat will be collaborating with Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Boston University to develop a testbed for new cloud computing technologies.

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Dun & Bradstreet’s government segment has named Yaneev Golombek, a Ph.D. student in civil engineering at the University of Colorado, as the recipient of the company’s 2019 Geospatial Data Science Scholarship.

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Huntington Ingalls Industries is sponsoring National Parent Teacher Association’s effort to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.

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Mitre and the University of Texas at San Antonio have signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct national infrastructure protection research efforts and develop artificial intelligence and cybersecurity skills among students, 

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The Food and Drug Administration has selected 32 companies and academic entities to provide research and development support services to advance studies in regulatory science under a potential $41.8M multi-award contract. The agency announced the R&D contract awards in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday. The listed winners are: American Society of Nephrology Ann & Robert H. […] More

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Applied Physics Laboratory are attempting to enhance the navigational algorithms of autonomous robotic swarms using discoveries related to dynamic replanning — the cognitive mechanism that allows animals to navigate while on the move. The researchers will then study changes in the behavior of robotic swarms […] More

The National Science Foundation has partnered with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google to support research projects in the data science and engineering field. NSF said Wednesday it will obligate nearly $30 million to the Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering program. AWS, Google and Microsoft have each pledged to donate […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle have unveiled the winners of a global crowdsourcing competition that sought data science methods to develop lung cancer detection formulas and technologies. The third annual Data Science Bowl drew nearly 10,000 participants who submitted  algorithms designed to help clinicians detect lung cancer, Booz Allen said Tuesday. The National Cancer Institute provided access to a publicly-available data set of […] More

Julia Phillips, former acting vice president and chief technology officer of the Education Department‘s Sandia National Laboratories, has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Science Board. She will lead efforts to maintain U.S.’ key role in the science and engineering fields in her new position, Sandia Labs said Wednesday. Her 19-year career at Sandia […] More

Northrop Grumman and the National Science Teachers Association have launched a new education initiative intended to build up the teachers’ science, technology, engineering and math instruction skills. The Northrop Grumman Foundation Teachers Academy is designed to equip middle school science, engineering and technology teachers with an understanding of what skills the future workforce needs, NSTA […] More

Chuck Harrington — chairman, CEO and president of Parsons — has been inducted into the National Academy of Construction. Parsons said Monday Harrington will join 26 other inductees for 2015 at NAC, which was founded in 1999 to recognize the industry leaders’ contributions to the construction and engineering sector. NAC “is comprised of leaders who have dedicated their […] More

The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine will provide research equipment to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences as part of a $18.26 million task order. The Defense Department said Friday the order includes a magnetic resonance imaging system, a super resolution microscope and other equipment. USUHS plans to install the equipment in its biomedical […] More