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WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for "sustained innovation through the engineering of first-of-a kind, practical systems in acoustics, signal processing, and information technology." President Barack Obama presented the medal in a White House ceremony Friday. The National Medals are the highest honors that the U.S. government bestows upon scientists, engineers and inventors. The...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded $16 million under the Deep Exploration and Filter of Text (DEFT) program, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. BBN Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN). Government analysts collect and process huge amounts of data from a variety of sources to create and assess plans and to execute missions....
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army has selected the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Wireless Network after Next (WNaN) radios to support the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) 13.1 experiment at Fort Bliss. The WNaN team consists of DARPA; Raytheon BBN Technologies, which provides the applications, networking and integration capabilities for this next generation platform; and Cobham Sensor Systems LLC, which provides innovative, low cost...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Raytheon BBN Technologies an additional $5.9 million in funding under the Multilingual Automatic Document Classification, Analysis and Translation (MADCAT) program. This award follows Raytheon BBN's success during the first four years of the MADCAT program. BBN is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN). The Raytheon BBN team's goal is to create a...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded $2.2 million in funding under the Quantum Computer Science (QCS) program sponsored by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). BBN is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN). The goal of the program is to create tools and methods that integrate all aspects of the quantum computer -- from hardware to software -- in a single framework, resulting in unified...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The White House has launched US Ignite, a national innovation ecosystem for developing and deploying public sector applications and services on ultra-fast, software-defined networks. This initiative leverages important contributions from researchers across the nation, including Raytheon BBN Technologies, who have participated in the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Global Environment for Networking Innovation (GENI). Raytheon...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), via the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), has awarded Raytheon BBN Technologies $2.5 million in funding under the METAPHOR program. BBN is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN). The Raytheon BBN team's goal is to create analysis tools and techniques that provide insight into the underlying beliefs and worldviews that metaphors reveal. The system will...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded $1.9 million by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory under the Force Protection program. BBN is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN). Military personnel often operate in environments that are potentially dangerous, although not in active combat areas. Networks of sensors, commonly called force protection kits, are used to alert troops to potential dangers in these...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ray Tomlinson, a principal engineer at Raytheon BBN Technologies who sent the first network email in 1971 and saved the "@" symbol from probable extinction, is being honored among the first inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame for his invention of email. It was Tomlinson who made the historic choice to separate the name of his message's recipient from the name of the host computer using the "@" symbol, now one of the most...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon BBN Technologies a $5.5 million contract to develop a two-way communication and translation system that can be used on a variety of operating systems and platforms, including portable, mobile and net-enabled devices. Raytheon BBN Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), will develop prototype systems for two-way speech-to-speech translation, document translation, and...
