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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...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, DARPA, NETWORKING, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Defense

• 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...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, DARPA, NETWORKING, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Defense

• 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...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, DARPA, INTERNET, SECURITY

• Operational Risk and Probabilistic Networks - An Application to Corporate Actions Processing

  BNET - 2005-11-01

  With the Basel deadlines fast approaching, most affected banks are scrambling to get their operational risk management act together. The Basel defined requirements for loss history is fairly stringent - to use any one of the actuarial approaches, organizations would need to have at least three years preferably five of...

  Tags: Network, BBN Corp., Infosys Technologies Ltd., Financial Services, Strategy, Security, Management

• 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...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, Cambridge, DARPA, network, NETWORKING, partnership, QinetiQ Ltd., Quantum Corp., SECURITY, wireless

• 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....

  Tags: BBN Corp., DARPA, Iraq, MARKETING, SECURITY, troop, U.S.

• Physics finds cryptic application

  - 2004-09-19

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- It's a hacker's nightmare but a dream for bankers and spies: A computer network so secure that even the simplest attempts to eavesdrop will interrupt the flow of data and alert administrators to the snooping. The work by researchers at Harvard University, Boston University...

  Tags: BBN Corp., Harvard University, network, NETWORKING, scientist, SECURITY

• Better Encryption Techniques Spur Fiber Research

  - 2003-07-16

  Researchers at Boston's BBN Corp. are working on an encryption system that eventually could use subatomic particles to safeguard voice and data transmissions over fiber-optic networks. The research so far involves commercially available lasers and detectors that reportedly emit and detect single photons or pairs of photons, a practice...

  Tags: BBN Corp., DARPA, encryption, fiber, fiber-optics, Magiq Technologies, NETWORKING, SECURITY, technique, TELECOMMUNICATIONS