The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded SRI International and Southwest Research Institute contracts to develop and design system prototypes to convert toxic chemicals into soil and other non-hazardous compounds. DARPA said Wednesday it made the awards under the agency’s Agnostic Compact Demilitarization of Chemical Agents initiative. ACDC aims to develop new transportable platforms that will work to neutralize […] More

SRI International has received a $40 million contract to develop new contraceptive products for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development. SRI Biosciences will perform the preclinical development and testing of potential therapeutic products in compliance with Investigational New Drug requirements, SRI said Tuesday. “We are pleased to continue supporting this […] More

SRI International has won an $8,520,257 contract to assist the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in research for data privacy and privacy science studies. SRI will submit research proposals on how to capture and test technologies to DARPA, the Defense Department said Monday. The company will perform work in Menlo Park, California through Feb. 16, 2020. The Space and […] More

SRI International has developed an online game as part of a government program that intends to verify software to ensure that it lacks errors and security vulnerabilities. The company said Tuesday it created Binary Fission with the University of California in Santa Cruz and the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Crowd-Sourced Formal Verification initiative of the Defense […] More

Michael Page, formerly senior director of business applications at LSI, will be in charge of information technology strategy at SRI International as the nonprofit’s new chief information officer and vice president of IT services. SRI said Monday Page will manage corporate information and telecommunications systems, network security and desktop support services at the research organization. “Michael Page’s experience is […] More

Curtis Carlson, SRI International president and chief executive officer, is retiring after 16 years in the position and 40 years in the company, as the company looks his successor. Carlson will serve as vice chairman for innovation at SRI, upon his retirement, SRI announced. “My new position as Vice Chairman for Innovation will permit me […] More

SRI International has been awarded a a $4.5 million contract to establish a library intended to contain thousands of metabolites for use by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. NIH intends for the Metabolite Standards Synthesis Center to help prepare molecules for metabolomics researchers and be accessible to the scientific community, SRI announced Monday. Metabolomics research involves […] More

Srini Iyer, a senior vice president, chief technology officer and head of the innovation and capabilities office at ManTech International, said federal health agencies should take the right steps to health information technology transformation and one of the efforts industry could do to help agencies in their IT modernization journey is to explore new and […] More

Amazon Web Services has recognized ManTech International for the latter's performance in cloud migration and the DevOps approach, which combines software development and information technology operations to lessen systems development life cycle. ManTech said Thursday it was awarded the AWS Migration and DevOps Competencies by demonstrating best practices that help government agencies deploy AWS.

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Block MEMS has received a $3.5M contract to help SRI International develop a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive detection system for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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ManTech International has launched a portable technology platform designed to allow tactical warfighters to process and analyze intelligence data in real time, C4ISRNET reported Monday. The company’s Secure Tactical Edge Platform is a “cloud-in-a-box” system that works to accelerate the decision-making process for service personnel through real-time data collection and analysis.

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SRI International has secured a potential $87.7M sole-source contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide generalized emulation of microcircuits for the U.S. armed forces.

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