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DARPA Picks Two Research Teams for ‘Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon’ Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected two research teams to develop technologies for a program that seeks to automate the process of integrating scalable defense mechanisms into integrated circuit chip designs and help improve the security of the semiconductor supply chain.
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Lockheed to Update Exoskeleton Tech for Army Field Tests
Lockheed Martin will update components of a company-developed exoskeleton for use in U.S. Army demonstrations under a two-year, $6.9M contract from the military branch’s Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center. The University of Florida will evaluate Onyx updates ahead of soldier demonstrations that NSRDEC plans to conduct next year, Lockheed said Thursday. The exoskeleton uses an electro-mechanical […] More
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FDA Unveils 32 Awardees for Regulatory Science R&D Work
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
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NASA Selects 8 Universities to Participate in Small Spacecraft Projects
NASA has chosen eight university teams to work with the agency’s engineers and scientists on two-year projects to develop new small spacecraft technologies. The space agency said Saturday these collaborations aim to create small, lightweight spacecraft that could support science, exploration and space operations. NASA chose from a variety of submitted proposals on enhanced power generation and […] More
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DataDirect Networks Unveils Cloud Tiering Platform for DDN Lustre and GPFS Domains
DataDirect Networks has built on its offerings in managing parallel file system data by making its WOS-Bridge platform available for DDN Lustre and GPFS domains. DDN said that the introduction of the WOS-Bridge integration with DDN’s parallel file systems aims to help users manage, distribute and retain their data from the cloud to various data centers within a single […] More
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Former Astronaut Jim Halsell to Speak to University of Florida Students about Dynetics and Space
Jim Halsell, Dynetics technical director for advanced space launch systems, will speak at the University of Florida on Wednesday to discuss various topics related to space exploration and engineering. Halsell, a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel, will also talk about his role at Dynetics, the company said Friday. The event will be […] More
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DataDirect Networks Storage App to Support Researchers Managing Large-Scale Bioinformatics Workloads; Aaron Gardner Comments
DataDirect Networks has been selected by the University of Florida to provide an integrated storage appliance to academic researchers for managing large-scale bioinformatics and life sciences workloads, Datanami reported Dec. 5. Alex Woodie writes the University of Florida’s Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research wanted a converged infrastructure that is built to manage petabytes of data, […] More
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DDN to Help Univ. Of Florida Install Storage Infrastructure for Biotech Research; Aaron Gardner Comments
DataDirect Networks‘ converged storage platform has been selected by a research center at the University of Florida to manage large sets of life sciences data. The university’s Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research uses the DDN Storage Fusion Architecture with GRIDScaler filesystem to help scientists access, analyze and share big data collections from genomic experiments, DDN […] More
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Kroll Ontrack Introduces Online Program for Legal Professionals
Photo: texomarealtor.com Kroll Ontrack recently introduced an online classroom for the E-Discovery Training Program. The program provides law students, attorneys and legal professionals educational discussions, trends, challenges and case law pertaining to electronic evidence. “E-Discovery education serves as the survival guide to modern litigation and is an absolute necessity for law students, attorneys and anyone […] More
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UF Unveils New High-Tech Center, Brought to You by Harris
The ribbon was recently cut on the new University of Florida Computer and Information Science and Engineering Building, thanks to a donation by Harris Corporation. Among others, the $3 million in funds from the company helped to renovate the third floor of the building, which was renamed the “Harris Gateway to Learning and Innovation.“ Some […] More
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Tracking Botnets Just Got Harder
Security researchers often use ‘honey-pots’, computers without anti-virus protection containing monitoring software, to conduct research on botnets. The honey-pot computer becomes infected with a virus that would turn it into part of the botnet. However, the system is set up so the commands sent to the computer are monitored and the computer does not actually […] More