CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The National
Science Foundation has awarded $8
million to Raytheon BBN Technologies to continue the
redesign of the Internet. The foundation-funded Global Environment
for Network Innovations (GENI), a collaborative community of
scientists from around the world, is working to meet the
performance, security, and agility demands of new and emerging
technologies online.
Under the new award, Raytheon BBN Technologies will oversee
expansion of the GENI platform for continued advances in education,
medicine, network research and public safety.
"GENI is a tremendous success, surpassing its original goals,"
said Mark Berman, GENI project
director at Raytheon. "Today, GENI is helping to fundamentally
change the way in which the world gathers and shares
information."
GENI is an online laboratory for networking and distributed
systems research. Since 2007, Raytheon BBN Technologies has
operated the GENI Project Office under foundation sponsorship,
providing system engineering and project management expertise,
which has led to explosive growth in education and research
activities on the GENI platform.
In eight years, GENI has grown from a notion that scientists
could design a better Internet to a collaborative community that
spans 6,500 researchers from more than 180 universities in 30
countries. It has enabled new applications in a broad range of
areas, including:
- Geographically dispersed, computer-intensive education
- First responder communications
- Storm tracking
- High-speed, big data collaboration for city planners and
officials
- Traffic and accident monitoring and response
- Personalized medicine
Headquartered in Cambridge,
Mass., Raytheon BBN Technologies is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN).
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2015 sales of
$23 billion and 61,000 employees, is
a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil
government and cybersecurity solutions. With a history of
innovation spanning 94 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art
electronics, mission systems integration, C5I™
products and services, sensing, effects, and mission support for
customers in more than 80 countries. Raytheon is headquartered in
Waltham, Mass. Visit us at
www.raytheon.com and follow us on Twitter @Raytheon.
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