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RESTON, Va., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- ARTEL, Inc., a global leader in Information Technology and Managed Network Services, today announced $222.8 million in government contract wins for 2008, which resulted in a record year for the company in revenues. The contracts are a combination of re-competes on previous awards and new orders for public sector clients including the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Civil Agencies, among others. A testament to its...
BILLERICA, Mass., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- SI2 Technologies (SI2), a Massachusetts-based conformal and flexible electronic systems company, has announced that it has been awarded Small Business Innovation Research Phase II funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the next generation of helmet-mounted sensors which can detect events associated with traumatic brain injuries (TBI). The Phase II contract could total up to approximately $1 million if the...
The U.S. government and IBM have announced a collaborative effort to develop computers that mimic brain functions such as decision-making or image recognition.The so-called "cognitive computing" project combines the efforts of neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists, as well as psychologists. The project has received a $4.9 million grant from US defense agency DARPA in order to create technology capable of large-scale data analysis. IBM, along with Stanford University, the...
Seniors with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia are being cared for at Northfield Retirement Community with state-of-the-art remote monitoring technology designed by Healthsense, a Mendota Heights-based aging services technology company. The Healthsense Integrated Solution technology, installed in Northfield's new 12-unit Evergreen Lodge memory care facility, improves safety and security for residents by allowing staff to monitor residents remotely and respond more quickly to...
Kotura, Inc., a leading provider of silicon photonic components, today announced that Sun Microsystems has signed a five year $14M development contract with Kotura for DARPA's Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communications (UNIC) program. Previously, Sun announced its participation in DARPA's $44M program to advance a virtual supercomputer using an on-chip network of low-cost optical interconnects. "Sun is a global leader in high performance computing, advanced parallel computing and...
MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- QinetiQ North America, a global developer of innovative technology solutions for national defense, today announced that its Technology Solutions Group (TSG) has appointed Dr. Gregory Duckworth as its first Director of Advanced Research and Development. Dr. Duckworth will be responsible for identifying critical user needs and developing the technologies, industry partnerships, and business opportunities to address them. Dr. Duckworth joined TSG's...
A new imaging system developed by British defense firm Qinetiq that detects bursts of gamma rays may soon be helping direct troops on the battlefield.Instead of using lenses to gather light, the hardware uses a sensor array, a special "mask" and image processing software to track thousands of targets. Dr Chris Slinger, Qinetiq's principal investigator on the system, said astronomers had long been attracted to the approach because it performs much better under severe...
By Boland, Rita Move over, fortune tellers and psychics-scientist seers hear the future loud and clear The minds of the world who are creating the future's communications technology already know what to expect in the next generation -tools that are smaller, more powerful and more flexible yet less expensive. These experimenters also know that current bandwidth problems have to be a focus area for future operations. Research and development is already underway on everything from nanomolecules...
By Kenyon, Henry S Innovative optics, radar systems cut through the fog of battle. In the future, there will be no place to hide from the U.S. military. Two prototype sensor technologies may soon allow warfighters to observe enemy units at great distances and to track their movement inside buildings and urban areas. These systems benefit from recent developments in optics, radar, algorithms and processing to pull images out of desert heat distortion or to create maps of entire neighborhoods...
Soldiers may have a new tool in the very near future: brainwave-aided binoculars.The Pentagon has awarded contracts to two defense firms to begin developing binoculars that obtain information from the brains of the soldiers using them. The high-power binoculars will be built around the idea that the brain can sense what is visible before it can filter the multitude of visual information it collects. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, also known as DARPA, hopes that...
