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  • Raytheon to Build Army Focal Plane Array Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Build Army Focal Plane Array Tech

    Raytheon’s vision systems business unit will develop infrared sensor technologies for the U.S. Army’s night vision and electronic sensors directorate, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Friday. John Keller writes scientists at Raytheon will work to research and build III-V infrared focal plane array systems under a two-year contract with the Army Contracting Command‘s Aberdeen Proving […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL, NASA Launch Small Satellites into Space; Ann Darrin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL, NASA Launch Small Satellites into Space; Ann Darrin Comments

    The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and NASA launched two small satellites called cubesats into space in November, The Baltimore Sun reported Jan. 10. Scott Dance writes the devices are intended for use in earth and space science research and earth radiation studies. “This has the potential of being disruptive,” Ann Darrin, managing executive of Johns […] More

  • IBM, Texas A&M Form Computational Sciences Research Partnership; William LaFontaine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, Texas A&M Form Computational Sciences Research Partnership; William LaFontaine Comments

    IBM Corp. and Texas A&M University System have partnered to perform computational sciences research on agriculture, geosciences and engineering through big data analytics and high-performance computing systems. Goals of the research collaboration include to address requirements for extracting energy resources, managing smart grid, developing new materials, identifying and tracking diseases and monitoring food supplies worldwide, […] More

  • Leidos, UCSD Supercomputer Lab Partner for Microgrid Security Project; Brian Russell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos, UCSD Supercomputer Lab Partner for Microgrid Security Project; Brian Russell Comments

    Leidos has teamed up with a supercomputer laboratory at the University of California, San Diego to design an information technology architecture for managing and securing electrical microgrids. The Leidos-funded research project’s goal is to analyze cybersecurity aspects of a microgrid system operated by UCSD on campus and develop methods for reducing cyber risks to critical […] More

  • Agilent Grants Research Tools to Duke Molecular Physiology Institute - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Agilent Grants Research Tools to Duke Molecular Physiology Institute

    Agilent Technologies is working with the newly-established Duke Molecular Physiology Institute to help carry out translational research in chronic disease by using Agilent’s biology tools. The DMPI research team received a grant from Agilent to use the company’s tools as the institute aims to learn more about cardiovascular and other cartometabolic diseases, the company announced […] More

  • Battelle Researches the Impact of Extreme Cold on Materials; Darren Wolfe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Researches the Impact of Extreme Cold on Materials; Darren Wolfe Comments

    Researchers at Battelle are exploring the impact of cold temperatures on various equipment and materials, The Columbus Dispatch reported Monday. Dean Narciso writes Darren Wolfe, a Battelle research scientist, tested a panel from Blackhawk helicopter’s dashboard in very low temperatures. The dashboard’s incandescent lighting stopped working due to vibrations and Battelle researchers switched the material […] More

  • Cisco: 'Internet of Everything' Could Generate $4T for Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco: ‘Internet of Everything’ Could Generate $4T for Public Sector

    A new Cisco study estimates that public sector organizations could generate $4.6 trillion in value from Internet-connected objects over the next 10 years. State agencies could generate $682 billion in value by applying the Internet of Everything to public services and cities worldwide could also derive $1.9 trillion through the IoE over the next decade, Cisco said Wednesday. “With […] More

  • Philips Research Org Celebrates its Centennial Anniversary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Philips Research Org Celebrates its Centennial Anniversary

    With the 100th anniversary of its research organization, Philips has renewed its commitment “to improving the lives of 3 billion people a year by 2025.”  Since it was established in 1914 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Philips Research has established operations in six international locations, accumulated 1,500 employees belonging to 50 nationalities and granted 165,000 patents, […] More

  • NSF Records First University Research Spending Decline Since 1974 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSF Records First University Research Spending Decline Since 1974

    The National Science Foundation has estimated a 1.1 percent decrease in university research spending for the 2012 fiscal year, the first decline it recorded since 1974, the Baltimore Sun reported Monday. Scott Dance writes that university officials attributed the decline to budget cuts and the government’s withdrawal of the economic stimulus package. Dance reports that […] More

  • IBM Research Team Develops Method for Green Cloud Computing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Research Team Develops Method for Green Cloud Computing

    A team of IBM computer scientists and Trinity College Dublin researchers have developed a set of algorithms intended to reduce data centers’ environmental impact by routing cloud computing tasks, VentureBeat reported Monday. Jordan Novet writes the experiment came after IBM obtained a patent in October for a method to identify which facility receives networking requests based on […] More