Charles Stark Draper Laboratory will continue to help NASA develop and operate avionics software under a follow-on contract worth potentially $49 million over five years. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based nonprofit research and development organization will support the aeroscience and flight mechanics division within the Johnson Space Center’s engineering directorate as part of the Advanced Guidance, Navigation […] More

The Federal Risk and Management Program has granted the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard an authority to operate the cloud-based platform it developed in collaboration with Microsoft and Verily. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research organization said Monday the Terra cloud-native tool is meant for use in biomedical research to access data and conduct analysis operations, […] More

Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) announced on Tuesday its scientists have developed methods and demonstrated that quantum machines can learn to infer hidden data or information from broad probabilistic reasoning models. The new methods are designed to improve a wide variety of applications where complex systems are needed to account for uncertainty. 

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Juan Zarate, global co-managing partner of K2 Integrity, chairman of Consilient, and 2016 Wash100 Award winner recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the rebranding of K2 Intelligence FIN into K2 Integrity, the origin and continued development of Consilient, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the potential plans for his companies heading into 2021. 

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Northrop Grumman has worked with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the Smithsonian Institution to transfer the operations control center of the orbiting Chandra space telescope to a facility in Burlington, Massachusetts, from its previous location near Harvard University's campus in Cambridge.

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Amazon Web Services helped Moderna implement a cloud computing platform that supports the biotechnology firm's research, development and production of messenger RNA-based drug and vaccine candidates for various diseases such as COVID-19.

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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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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has teamed up with Synack in a cybersecurity effort aimed at identifying and addressing hardware vulnerabilities such as data leakage and buffer errors.

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Charles River Analytics and Assured Information Security have partnered to develop a machine learning-based anomaly identification framework to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s efforts to improve detection of the Trojan computer virus.

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Aaron Tilock, former director of strategic growth consulting at federal program management company Entellect, has joined information technology services firm C2 Labs as vice president of business development, G2XChange ETC reported Friday.

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Charles River Analytics has been applying its artificial intelligence technology to medical efforts since 2009 to develop and deliver surgical training systems, patient support, a first-aid training framework and other products under contract awards.

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Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has secured a $83.4M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Navy to carry out research efforts to help the Trident II D5, a submarine-launch ballistic missile, achieve guidance requirements.

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