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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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• 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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• Homeland security contracts.(Department of Homeland Security signs University of Texas, BBN Technologies and Applied Research Associates Inc.)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-11-01

  Homeland Security Contracts AWARDEE AMOUNT PURPOSE University of Texas $6.4 million Five-year research grant to study...

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• 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.

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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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• Information Sharing Using an Electronic Marketplace

  BNET - 2004-09-30

  The intelligence failures preceding the September 11 terrorist attacks highlight critical shortcomings with the sharing of information between government organizations. Fixing these problems involves overcoming technological and cultural barriers, fostering openness while not endangering privacy and security. This paper describes an approach to information sharing using an electronic marketplace, similar...

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• BBN Technologies Named to Globe 100's Top Places to Work '08

  - 2008-11-10

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today that it has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in the debut of an employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe. The Globe 100's Top Places to Work magazine was published in the...

• AFCEA SUSTAINING MEMBERS*

  - 2008-11-01

  A.M. Fadida Consulting Accentare ADC Aerospace Corporation, The Agilent Technologies ARINC Inc. ARTEL Inc. AT&T Government Solutions ATS Corporation Avaya Federal Solutions Inc. BAE Systems BAE Systems Science & Technology Inc. BBN Technologies Bechtel Systems & Infrastructure Inc....

• English/Arabic Lynx langue

  - 2008-10-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Lynx Translator from Secure Communication Systems is an innovative, fully rugged, hand-held tablet computer system designed for two-way speech-to-speech translation. Supporting translation software from BBN Technologies, SRI and IBM, the Lynx features a six-element-phased-array microphone that provides reliable speech recognition up to four metres distant...

• BBN Technologies has received a subcontract from Secure Communication Systems

  - 2008-10-01

  BBN Technologies has received a subcontract from Secure Communication Systems to provide research and development services in support of the Spoken Language Communication and Translation System for Tactical Use Transtac software for ruggedised portable and mobile speech-to-speech systems...

• GENI Project Office at BBN Technologies Announces $12M in Funding for 29 Academic-Industrial Teams

  - 2008-09-29

  Academic and Industry Powerhouses Kick Off GENI Prototyping CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today subcontract awards totaling $12M for 29 academic/industrial research teams to build, integrate, and begin to operate the first prototypes of the GENI suite of network research infrastructure. GENI...

• Jeffrey Feinberg Joins BBN Technologies as VP, Advanced Networking Systems

  - 2008-09-22

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today that Jeffrey Feinberg has joined the company as Vice President, Advanced Networking Systems. Feinberg will lead a team of 70 scientists and engineers who implement BBN's leading edge research to develop networking systems for challenging environments and critical...

• BBN Technologies Awarded $3.5M to Develop Wearable Shooter Detection System in Partnership with US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center

  - 2008-09-08

  Wearable System Will Provide Individual Protection and Situational Awareness for Soldiers on the Battlefield CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today that it will develop a soldier-wearable shooter detection system in partnership with the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center...

• Stephen Zabele Joins BBN Technologies as VP, Technology Applications

  - 2008-08-27

  Zabele to augment firm's technology portfolio to create transition, growth opportunities CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today that Stephen Zabele has joined the company as Vice President, Technology Applications. In this role, Zabele will support the company's growth strategy by enhancing and...

• 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...