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BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, is focused on solving some of the world's most pressing problems. From national security, information security, speech recognition and language translation, to integrating disparate systems and networks, BBN has been at the forefront of technological change for over 50 years.
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Robert G. ElmerNumber of Employees 650
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NAICS Code Custom Computer Programming Services: 541511
Recent Events
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Raytheon BBN Technologies Licenses Stereo Digital Mammography Technology to FUJIFILM Corporation
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General Catalyst has hot hand amid VC slump
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BBN Technologies Awarded $22M to Provide Additional Boomerang Shooter Detection Systems to US Army
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Raytheon Co. to buy BBN
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Raytheon to purchase BBN Technologies
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BBN Technologies.(awarded 2005 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Significant Technical Achievement Award )(Brief Article)
- 2005-11-01
BBN Technologies has earned the 2005 Defense. Advanced Research Projects Agency Significant Technical Achievement Award for its Boomerang Mobile Shooter Detection System.
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...
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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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Robert G. Elmer | President & CEO |
| Ed Campbell | Executive Vice President, Operations |
| Carol Sabia | Vice President, Development |
| Mark Sherman | Vice President, Contracts |
| Susan Wuellner | Vice President, HR |
| William F. Earle | Vice President, Finance |
| Alex Laats | |
| Anita K. Jones | |
| David Lintz | General Counsel |
| Henry Houh | |
| Marie Meteer | |
| Robert Spina |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| David Fialkow | board member |
| Hemant Taneja | Board Member |
| Isaac Kato | Board Member |
| James W. Breyer | Board Member |
| Kenneth J. Novack | board member |
| Kevin Efrusy | Board Member |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBN Technologies | President & CEO | Current |
| Acoustical Society of America | member | Former |
| University of Washington | bachelor's degree in physics and earned a master's in physics | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBN Technologies | Executive Vice President, Operations | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBN Technologies | Vice President, Development | Current |
| Honeywell International Inc. | Former | |
| Boston College | M.B.A. | Former |
| University of Connecticut | Bachelor's degree | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBN Technologies | Vice President, Contracts | Current |
| Northeastern University | bachelors and masters degrees in economics | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBN Technologies | Vice President, HR | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBN Technologies | Vice President, Finance | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBN Technologies | Current | |
| BBN Corporation | Former | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | J.D. | Former |
Elected 1998 Dr. Jones is the Quarles professor of engineering at the University of Virginia, where she has taught since 1989. From 1993 to 1997, Jones was on leave of absence from the university to serve as director of defense research and engineering in the U.S. Department of Defense. Jones also served as a director of our company from 1987 to 1993.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| University of Virginia | Quarles Professor, Engineering | Current |
| BBN Technologies | Current | |
| Smart Computing | Current | |
| Digital Reasoning Systems Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Science Applications International Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| Science Foundation Arizona | Board of Directors | Current |
| In-Q-Tel, Inc. | Board of Trustees | Current |
| Spinner Technologies, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Tartan | Vice President | Former |
| The Mitre Corporation | founder | Former |
| U.S. Department of Defense | Director, Defense Research and Engineering | Former |
| The Mitre Corporation | trustee | Former |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Former | |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Ph.D. In Computer Science | Former |
| The University of Texas | M.A. In English Literature | Former |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Master's In English Literature | Former |
| Rice University | B.S. In Mathematics | Former |
| The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. | member | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBN Technologies | General Counsel | Current |
| University of Chicago | J.D. | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBN Technologies | Current | |
| Empirix Inc. | Chief Technologist | Former |
| BBN Corporation | Former | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | B.S. in Physics | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBN Technologies | Current | |
| BBN Corporation | Former | |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Everyzing, Inc. | Vice President, Engineering | Current |
| BBN Technologies | Current | |
| Sonexis, Inc. | Senior Director of Architecture | Former |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering | Former |
| State University of New York at Buffalo | Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering | Former |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | M.S. in Electrical Engineering | Former |
| Western Michigan University | B.S. in Computer Engineering | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| General Catalyst Partners | Managing Director | Current |
| General Catalyst Partners | Co-Founder | Current |
| SmartBargains, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| UPromise, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| E-Tower | Board of Directors | Current |
| Grain Communications Group, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Vitrue, Inc | Director | Current |
| Onforce, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| BBN Technologies | board member | Current |
| UPromise, Inc. | Co-Founder | Former |
| Cruise Line Holdings Co. | co-founded | Former |
| U.S. Venture Partners | associate | Former |
| Thomas H. Lee Partners, LP | associate | Former |
| PNC Bank | Former | |
| Facing History and Ourselves | Board Member | Former |
| Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America | Board Member | Former |
| Colgate University | graduate | Former |
| Boston College Law School | graduate | Former |
As a Managing Director, of General Catalyst Partners, Hemant invests in both new and existing technology businesses. Areas of special interest include technology-intensive, disruptive software, systems and components in various sectors including clean energy, wireless, and consumer-focused businesses. Hemant is a Board member of Cyren Call, Health Insight Technologies, Lumenz, Mascoma, Sand9 and Stion. Hemant also served on the Board of SiteAdvisor, a General Catalyst investment that was acquired by McAfee (MFE) in April 2006, and m-Qube (General Catalyst founded the company) that was acquired by Verisgn (VSGN) in May 2006. He is also a Board Observer of Modular Wind. Before joining General Catalyst in 2002, Hemant was founder, president and CEO of Isovia, a Boston-based mobile software and applications company that was acquired by JP Mobile (MOT) in 2001. Hemant is the co- founder & Chairman of NECEC.org, a non-profit, focused on advancing New England's clean energy economy to global leadership. He is also on the Board of Directors of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit organization focused on helping entrepreneurs, and on the Board of Directors of the GreenLight Fund Network, which catalyzes the replication and growth of innovative non-profits. Hemant holds an M.S. in Operations Research, an M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Mathematics, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a B.S. in Biology & Biomedical Engineering; all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| General Catalyst Partners | Managing Director | Current |
| Mascoma | Principal, General Catalyst Partners | Current |
| Millennial Net, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| Sand 9, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| Quickplay Media Inc | Board Member | Current |
| Stion | Board Member | Current |
| Cyren Call | Board Member | Current |
| m-Qube | board observer | Current |
| BBN Technologies | Board Member | Current |
| Bridgeport Networks, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| Advanced Electron Beams, Inc. | board observer | Current |
| Mascoma | Board of Directors | Current |
| The IndUS Entrepreneurs | Board of Directors | Current |
| JP Mobile, Inc. | Senior Vice President | Former |
| General Catalyst Partners | Team Member | Former |
| Analog Devices, Inc. | operations management | Former |
| SignalDemand | Board Member | Former |
| Siteadvisor, Inc. | Board Member | Former |
| MIT Sloan School of Management | M.S. in Operations Research | Former |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | B.S. in Mathematics | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| General Catalyst Partners | Team Member | Current |
| BBN Technologies | Board Member | Current |
| Onforce, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| Ccp Games, Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Spatial Corp | Vice President of Spatial's Online Division | Former |
| Summit Accelerator Fund | vice president | Former |
| Postini, Inc. | Board Member | Former |
| Shamrock Holdings, Inc. | venture capitalist | Former |
| Harvard Business School | M.B.A | Former |
| Stanford University | M.S. in Engineering, Economic Systems | Former |
| Stanford University | B.A. in Quantitative Economics | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Accel Partners | Managing Partner | Current |
| Pacific Community Ventures | Board Advisor | Current |
| Brightcove Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Rhapsody Unlimited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Prosper Marketplace, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Accel Partners | Director | Current |
| Maven Networks, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| Model N, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| Dell Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Prosper Marketplace, Inc. | Board Member | Current |
| Western Association of Venture Capitalists | Director | Current |
| Facebook Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| BrassRing LLC | Board Member | Current |
| Accel-KKR, LLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| Marvel Entertainment, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| BBN Technologies | Board Member | Current |
| PCV Investment Partners | Advisory Board | Current |
| RealNetworks, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Western Association of Venture Capitalists | President | Former |
| Apple Inc. | Marketing | Former |
| Hewlett-Packard Company | Marketing | Former |
| McKinsey & Company, Inc. | management consultant | Former |
| Netscape Communications Corporation | Former | |
| Harvard Business School | Board Member | Former |
| Harvard University | M.B.A. | Former |
| Stanford University | M.B.A. | Former |
| Harvard University | B.S. Degree | Former |
| Stanford University | B.S. | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gordon Brothers Group, LLC | Advisory Director | Current |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Boston Medical & Scientific Advisors, LLC | Vice Chairman of Time Warner | Current |
| Appleton Partners, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Prematics | Board of Directors | Current |
| Leerink Swann & Company | Vice Chairman of Time Warner | Current |
| BBN Technologies | board member | Current |
| Time Warner Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Tufts Medical Center | Vice Chairman | Current |
| The Mintz Co | senior partner | Former |
| Biogen, Inc. | outside counsel | Former |
| Myriad Genetics, Inc. | outside counsel | Former |
| The Mintz Co | associate | Former |
| ImmunoGen, Inc. | outside counsel | Former |
| General Catalyst Partners | special advisor | Former |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | outside counsel | Former |
| Museum of Science | Vice Chairman | Former |
| Time Warner Inc. | vice chairman | Former |
| General Catalyst Partners | advisory board member | Former |
| Harvard Law School | Jd | Former |
| Dartmouth College | BA | Former |
| Harvard Law School | graduate | Former |
| Dartmouth College | graduate | Former |
Kevin Efrusy came to Accel in 2003 and serves as a General Partner. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment which currently sells in excess of $170M/year of equipment. Prior to KPCB, Kevin served as a product manager at Zip2 and a consultant at Bain & Company. Efrusy invests broadly in software and internet businesses, but he focuses on consumer internet companies, open source software, and wireless application providers. He co-led Accel's investment in Facebook, currently serves on the boards of Metacafe, Hyperic, Xensource, Terracotta, and BBN Technologies. He is also actively involved in Riverbed Technology and Transera. Efrusy has an MSEE, BSEE, and BA in Economics all from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Hyperic, LLC | General Partner | Current |
| Medio Inc. | General Partner, Accel Partners | Current |
| BBN Technologies | Board Member | Current |
| Springsource Limited | Board Member | Current |
| Netjaxer | Board of Directors | Current |
| MIG33 | Board of Directors | Current |
| Accel Partners | Investor | Current |
| Ironplanet, Inc. | CEO | Former |
| Zip2 | product manager | Former |
| Accel Partners | executive and consultant | Former |
| Stanford Graduate School of Business | Arjay Miller Scholar | Former |
| Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers | Entrepreneur-In-Residence | Former |
| Bain & Company | consultant | Former |
| Bain & Company | strategy consultant | Former |
| Facebook Inc. | Key Investor | Former |
| Stanford University | Msee | Former |
| Stanford Graduate School of Business | MBA | Former |
| Stanford Graduate School of Business | Bsee | Former |
| Stanford University | BA In Economics | Former |
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