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Discovery Park District Creating ‘First in the Nation’ Network
January 19, 2021 - Friday, January 15th 2021, 2:21 PM EST Updated: Sunday, January 17th 2021, 10:21 PM EST By Wes Mills, Content Manager (photo courtesy of Purdue University) WEST LAFAYETTE - The Purdue Research Foundation is making plans to create a “connected community” across the university's Discovery Park District, bringing advanced connectivity and services to residents, retailers,...
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DoD Seeks to Expand AI Capability Across Military in 2021
January 18, 2021 - by ADC | Jan 19, 2021 | Congress/DoD, On Base Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, director of the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) is hoping the services will embrace and adopt innovation across the force this upcoming year, CQ reports. “What we’re trying to do is generate...
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SIMBA Chain Receives $1.5M Naval Contract
January 13, 2021 - Wednesday, January 13th 2021, 2:42 PM EST Updated: Thursday, January 14th 2021, 9:02 AM EST By Mary Roberts, Writer/Reporter Joe Neidig is the CEO of SIMBA Chain. (IIB Photo) PLYMOUTH - The U.S. Office of Navy Research has awarded a $1.5 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract to Plymouth-based SIMBA Chain...
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Purdue scientist will be among the first to study asteroid samples
January 6, 2021 - Thompson holds a sample of a carbonaceous meteorite which may have similarities to material returned by the Hayabusa2 mission. (Purdue University photo/John Underwood) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A fireball lit up the Australian sky in the first week of December, as Japan’s Hayabusa2 asteroid explorer sent a capsule containing...
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Defense Officials Discuss Special Operations, Irregular Warfare Initiatives
January 6, 2021 - DEC. 17, 2020 | BY DAVID VERGUN, DOD NEWS This year, the Defense Department released a declassified summary of its Irregular Warfare Annex to the 2018 National Defense Strategy. The annex details how the department seeks to institutionalize and operationalize this form of warfare amid the ongoing recalibration of its focus on peer...
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Center for Turbulence Research Annual Research Briefs 2020
January 6, 2021 - Preface This volume contains the 2020 Annual Research Briefs that summarize the research activities at the Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) in its thirty-fourth year of operation. Foremost scientific objectives of CTR are the fundamental understanding of turbulent flows and the development of physical models and computational tools for multi-scale analysis...
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Westgate@Crane: Strategic Planning, Innovation + Partnerships
December 13, 2020 - NEWS RELEASE December 11, 2020 Purdue@WestGate at the WestGate@Crane Technology Park teamed up with Tina Peterson, President and CEO of Regional Opportunity Initiatives (ROI), Captain Duncan McKay, Commanding Officer of NSWC Crane Division, Major General Clif Tooley, President of Defense Development for IEDC and Brian Langley, and Senior Vice-President of...
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Purdue Using Emerging Technology to Bridge Digital Divide
December 3, 2020 - (photo courtesy of Watch Communications) JASPER COUNTY - Students in 500 households in a mostly rural area of northern Jasper County are in line to get access to high-speed internet in January, using the emerging technology of Citizens Broadband Radio Service. Purdue Research Foundation's newly-formed Innovation Partners Institute is heading up...
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Artificial intelligence collaboration seeking to hasten COVID-19 insights
December 3, 2020 - WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care professionals and researchers have been confined mostly to using local and national datasets to study the impact of comorbidities (chronic or long-term health conditions), pre-existing medication use, demographics and various interventions on disease course. Now, Purdue University is joining with other...
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NSA Crane Expecting Major Job Growth
November 23, 2020 - ODON - Naval Support Activity Crane is projecting job growth in southern Indiana. During a 'State of the Installation' address to the White River Military Coordination Alliance meeting, NSA Crane said it plans to hire between 300-500 personnel over the next several years. Commander James Smith, commanding officer of NSA...
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