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• BBN Technologies Awarded $9M to Add Disruption Tolerance to Military Networks

  - 2008-08-19

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today it has been awarded $8.9M in funding by the Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA under the third phase of its Disruption Tolerant Networking DTN program. This latest award follows BBN's successful completion of Phases...

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• BBN Technologies Awarded $5 Million in DoD Funding to Advance Rapid Processing of Chinese

  - 2008-07-07

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today it has been awarded $5 million in additional funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA in year three of the five-year Global Autonomous Language Exploitation GALE program. The goal of GALE is to develop and apply...

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• BBN Technologies Awarded $5.7 Million in Defense Funding to Design Faster, More Dynamic, More Secure, More Robust Optical Network

  - 2008-03-18

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today it has been awarded $5.7 million in funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA for the Dynamic Multi-Terabit Core Optical Networks: Architecture, Protocols, Control and Management CORONET program. BBN will lead a team that includes RTI...

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• BBN Technologies Awarded $13 Million in DoD Funding to Advance Rapid Foreign Language Processing

  - 2008-03-11

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today it has been awarded $13 million in additional funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA in year three of the five-year Global Autonomous Language Exploitation GALE program. The goal of GALE is to develop and apply...

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• Soldiers Search Syntax

  - 2007-06-01

  Adept integrated transcription, translation, distillation system quickly finds buried foreign language nuggets. Critical actionable military data obscured by foreign languages and often masked in large volumes of different types of media are both highly important and perishable. The global deployment of a dozen monitoring systems is enabling software...

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• BBN Technologies Reduces Ad Hoc Network Power Consumption 100 Times; Demonstrates Dramatic Power Reduction with No Performance Loss

  - 2006-07-17

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, a leading advanced technology solutions firm, today announced a milestone achievement in phase two of a wireless networking program funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA. The goal of the program, Connectionless Networks, is to develop a low-power, mutihop wireless network that will...

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• BBN Technologies Awarded $16.4 Million in Defense Funding to Develop Advanced Solution for Rapid Foreign Language Processing

  - 2005-11-28

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology and research and development firm, announced today it has been awarded $16.4 million by the Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA to develop a system for the Global Autonomous Language Exploitation GALE initiative to solve the human language technology...

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• BBN gets DARPA contract.(New Applications)

  - 2005-09-01

  BBN Technologies has been awarded $2.9 million to lead a multi-year program under the second phase of DARPA's Advanced Speech Encoding (ASE 2) program to develop a noise-robust, ultra-low bit rate vocoding radio. The program's goal is to demonstrate an ultra-low data transmission rate voice communication...

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• BBN Technologies Adds Wireless Capability to World's First Continuously Operating Quantum Cryptography Network; Partnership with QinetiQ Extends DARPA Quantum Network into the Skies

  - 2005-06-01

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology and research and development firm, announced today that the world's first operational quantum cryptography network--funded by the Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA--has now expanded to include its first free space link, enabling quantum keys or communications to be...

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• Electronic ears on alert for enemy gunshots

  - 2005-03-28

  QUANTICO, Va. -- Riding inside heavily armored Humvees, U.S. troops in Iraq have a problem that goes beyond the threats of roadside bombs and rocket-propelled grenades. It's noise. The inside of a Humvee is so loud that the driver and front-seat passenger often have to shout to be heard....

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