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  • Aurora Flight Sciences to Continue NASA Mature D8 Experimental Aircraft Concept Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aurora Flight Sciences to Continue NASA Mature D8 Experimental Aircraft Concept Development

    Aurora Flight Sciences has secured a six-month, $2.9 million contract to continue the development of the D8 subsonic commercial aircraft as part of NASA’s aviation innovation efforts. The contract aims to help establish requirements for the experimental aircraft or X-Plane program and kick-start the research phase to further develop the D8 commercial airliner, Aurora said Sept. 13. The goal is […] More

  • MIT Lands DARPA Contract Option for Engineering Biology Program’s 1K Molecules Component - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIT Lands DARPA Contract Option for Engineering Biology Program’s 1K Molecules Component

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a potential 18-month, $8.1 million contract modification to provide support for the second phase of DARPA’s Living Foundries: 1000 Molecules program. The cost-reimbursement modification exercises the first option on a previously awarded contract and brings the total contract value to $19.3 million, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The […] More

  • SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni to Speak at Cambridge Cyber Summit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni to Speak at Cambridge Cyber Summit

    Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, will deliver a speech at the one-day Cambridge Cyber Summit, Delawareonline.com reported Wednesday. Jeff Mordock writes the cybersecurity conference will be held on Oct. 5 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and will cover various topics such as cyber attacks, privacy, cyber countermeasures and public-private collaboration. Other speakers at the […] More

  • Sapient, Luminoso Technologies Form AI Tech Partnership for Federal Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sapient, Luminoso Technologies Form AI Tech Partnership for Federal Clients

    Sapient Government Services, a Publicis.Sapient subsidiary, and Luminoso Technologies have forged a marketing alliance that aims to use artificial intelligence technology to help federal customers transform data into actionable insights. SGS said Tuesday Luminoso’s software utilizes natural language processing and machine learning to analyze text data and transform language into mathematical vectors using the ConceptNet open-source semantic knowledge base, which was developed at […] More

  • DARPA, MIT Develop Biopharmaceutical Production System in Warzones; Tyler McQuade Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, MIT Develop Biopharmaceutical Production System in Warzones; Tyler McQuade Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a biopharmaceutical production system meant to create treatments in the battlefield, Biopharma Reporter reported Tuesday. Melissa Fassbender writes the system comprises a biologics expression system that produces therapeutic proteins and a microfluidic platform. Tyler McQuade, program manager for DARPA’s battlefield medicine program, […] More

  • DARPA to Host Workshop on Synthetic Polymer-Based Medicine R&D Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Workshop on Synthetic Polymer-Based Medicine R&D Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a workshop in Southbridge, Massachusetts, on June 29 to discuss a program that seeks to develop medicines designed to retain potency for long periods of time amid exposure to extreme conditions on the battlefield. DARPA said Tuesday researchers under the Fold F(x) program aim to design biotherapeutics and […] More

  • Lockheed, MIT Form Autonomous Tech Research Partnership; Keoki Jackson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, MIT Form Autonomous Tech Research Partnership; Keoki Jackson Comments

    Lockheed Martin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have agreed to jointly explore autonomous and robotic technologies under a partnership agreement the parties signed Friday. The company said Monday it will collaborate with the university’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as well as Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to engage the university’s faculty and students in human-machine teaming and navigation […] More

  • Deloitte, MIT, Datawheel Launch US Public Data Visualization Engine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte, MIT, Datawheel Launch US Public Data Visualization Engine

    Deloitte, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Datawheel have launched a new visualization engine to display U.S. public data. MIT’s Macro Connections Group partnered with Deloitte and Datawheel to develop Data USA that works to aggregate and visualize data from multiple sources including government agencies such as Commerce Department, Labor Deparment and Education Department, Deloitte said Monday. […] More

  • MIT-NASA-Boeing Team to Roll Out Systems Engineering Certificate Program; Marc Nance Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIT-NASA-Boeing Team to Roll Out Systems Engineering Certificate Program; Marc Nance Comments

    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has teamed up with NASA and Boeing to launch by summer an online program that seeks to provide the engineering workforce with continuing education and training on systems engineering. MIT Professional Education will deliver four courses under the certificate-based Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems program […] More

  • MIT to Work on USAF Transparent Computing Program Against APTs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIT to Work on USAF Transparent Computing Program Against APTs

    The U.S. Air Force has selected the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop a new way to catch advanced persistent threats inside a network under a $7.1 million Air Force Research Laboratory contract, Defense Systems reported Tuesday. Kevin McCaney writes that the service tasked MIT to apply transparent computing technology to help IT personnel tag and track network activities, as […] More

  • Philips, MIT Alliance to Explore Medical Tech, Connected Lighting; Henk van Houten Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Philips, MIT Alliance to Explore Medical Tech, Connected Lighting; Henk van Houten Comments

    Royal Philips has agreed to partner with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop medical technologies that seek to detect and treat cardiovascular disease, cancer and other conditions while reducing healthcare costs. Under the five-year, $25 million research alliance, the company will transfer its research facility to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and work with MIT researchers to […] More

  • BAE, Boeing, Raytheon Join MIT Cyber R&D Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, Boeing, Raytheon Join MIT Cyber R&D Alliance

    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has partnered with BAE Systems, Boeing, Raytheon, BP and BBVA to establish a collaborative research program to tackle cybersecurity issues on a larger scale, the Boston Business Journal reported Monday. Sara Castellanos writes Howard Shrobe, principal research scientist at MIT’s computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory, said the Cybersecurity@CSAIL initiative […] More