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 |  Subject: War Industry Muster: U.S. Academia Aiding & Abetting the Pentagon  Thu Jun 16, 2016 4:58 am | |
| NOTE: This accounting only weighs the contracts issued on DOD’s website over the past three years. This accounting does not consider: the Department of Energy’s National Labs; U.S. military staff colleges (like the National Defense University and the Naval War College); and clandestine Pentagon funding of Washington, D.C., think tanks.
On 23 May 2016, the Pentagon paid Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) $8.9 million for “basic and applied research of unconstrained resolution, occlusion, pose, and aging-tracking, surveillance and identification (UROPA-TSI) in support of the Special Surveillance Program.”
According to the contract announcement, “this research will provide next-generation algorithms and cutting edge fundamental research to solve difficult scientific problems, such as low-resolution, occlusion, pose, and aging that are typically encountered during aerial and biometric surveillance.
“UROPA-TSI will combine existing and emerging technologies to dramatically, but unobtrusively, increase the safety, speed and efficiency of biometric surveillance and identification.
Work is taking place in Pittsburgh, PA (60%); East Lansing, MI (13%); Warminster, PA (11%); La Jolla, CA (8%); Menlo Park, CA (6%); and Morgantown, WV (2%).
Many other U.S. universities support the U.S. military. Some of these universities include…
University of Alabama
(at) Birmingham
clinical research support to guide 17a-ethynylestradiol-3-sulfate, sodium salt (EE-3-SO4) through FDA investigational new drug submission and good clinical practice compliant Phase 1a and potentially 1b clinical trials for an indication as a viable infusion therapy for the treatment of critical patients with significant blood loss; issued 16 September 2015
(at) Huntsville
engineering on Advanced Weapon System & Manufacturing Technologies; issued 2 September 2014
Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (mission support) for weapon systems, sub-systems, components and manufacturing technology; issued 16 September 2015
The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley
work on Phase 3 of DARPA’s Power Efficiency Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) program; issued 26 August 2015;
Carnegie Mellon University
Software Engineering Institute (Pittsburgh, PA)
R&D requirements for non-DOD work in support of classified and unclassified missions, and work on software programs; issued 27 March 2015
operate the Software Engineering Institute (Pittsburgh, PA); issued 27 July 2015
the contract we discussed at the start: basic & applied research of unconstrained resolution, occlusion, pose, and aging-tracking, surveillance and identification (UROPA-TSI) in support of the Special Surveillance Program; issued 23 May 2016
Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH)
R&D services for DARPA, re: getting feeling and function back after amputation and surgery à work at contractor’s facilities in Ohio (40%); and four subcontractor facilities in MN, RI, CA, IL (60%); issued 31 March 2016
Charles Stark Draper Laboratories
Trident II (D5) engineering, upgrades, R&D, maintenance …
30 September 2014
9 February 2015
MK 6 Guidance System Repair Program w failure verification, test, repair, and recertification of inertial measurement units, electronic assemblies, and electronic modules à work in Pittsfield, MA; Minneapolis, MN; Clearwater, FL; Cambridge, MA
15 December 2015
guidance subsystems & reentry systems
work in Cambridge, MA (95%); Pittsfield, MA (3%); El Segundo, CA (2%)
21 March 2016
MK 6 guidance system production with failure verification, test, repair and recertification of inertial measurement units, electronic assemblies, and electronic modules à work in Minneapolis, MN (28%); Clearwater, FL (26%); Cambridge, MA (24%); Pittsfield, MA (22%); (similar to 9 Feb 2015 contract)
develop comprehensive software architecture for extracting semantic artifacts from large software corporate and represent these artifacts in a multi-representational database capable of answering both complex graph queries as well as matrix-based queries; issued 6 October 2014
R&D on special ISR components and systems; issued 14 April 2015 for the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana
R&D to counteract asymmetrical threats; issued 18 September 2015
other organizations listed on the contract included: BAE, Booz Allen Hamilton, Exelis, Georgia Tech, Leidos, more…
tells us the R&D is heavy into computer software & electronic based intelligence capabilities
support of the Controlled Technical Services (CTS) program for the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division; CTS program requires development of miniaturized multi-chip processors and other related technologies, while maintaining system functionality; issued 14 March 2016
University of Dayton Research Institute (Dayton, OH)
propulsion R&D for AFRL’s Aerospace Systems Directorate; issued 1 July 2014; core areas:
gas turbine engines
energy, aerospace power & thermal management
advanced propulsion
R&D developing nondestructive technology (including where/how it can be applied); issued 18 July 2014
advanced behavior & life prediction of aerospace materials program; R&D advancing state-of-the-art materials performance assessment and prediction capability by developing more efficient and comprehensive methods across modeling, simulation and experimental domains; issued 29 September 2014
fundamental and applied combustion and component research; issued 24 June 2015
R&D on synthesizing organic matrix composites constituents, new integrated composite materials, computational tools for processing science, data management and multiscale modeling à work at Wright-Patterson AFB; issued 7 April 2016
University of Dayton Research Institute (Dayton, OH) and UES Inc. (Dayton, OH)
additional research in the areas of power, energy and thermal technologies; issued 17 May 2016
University of Delaware (Newark, DE)
DARPA research project under the Tailorable Feedback and Forming (TFF) Program; TFF aims to develop the manufacturing of small (20 pounds or under) DOD composite parts at costs competitive to metal using a new composite material format and novel reconfigurable forming/molding processes that enable fabrication of multiple part configurations à work in Newark, DE (65%); Blacksburg, VA (7%); Philadelphia, PA (15%); and Clemson, SC (13%); issued 11 March 2016
Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. (Atlanta, GA) / GT Research Institute
NAVAIR Engineering & Analysis support; issued 25 July 2014
work on airborne, ground, and naval electronic detection, protection, and guidance devices
radar R&D; issued 22 September 2014
Air National Guard Developmental Engineering for Integrated Sensors
threat system modeling and simulation roadmaps; investment studies; issued 26 September 2014
Advanced Automated Tactical Communications aircraft and electronic warfare system testing and engineering; issued 29 September 2014
Communications Electronics Command, Software Engineering Center, Army Reprogramming Analysis Team multispectral sensor R&D; issued 30 September 2014
electronic warfare work (across multiple sensor spectrums)
Electronic Warfare / Sensor Technology, Modeling, Simulation & Analysis Research program; issued 25 November 2014
helps USAF countermeasures, information warfare, and electronic warfare
combustion stability modeling & design tool development; issued 30 April 2015
software to help design stable rockets
research, engineering, science & technology, analysis; issued 22 June 2015
R&D, engineering, state of-the-art and proof-of-concept sensor systems, and basic and advanced technology R&D for MDA; issued 14 September 2015
R&D to “counteract asymmetrical threats”; issued 18 September 2015
IT and security support to U.S. Army Installation Management Command and Army Medical Command; issued 22 September 2015
work on the “source multiple integrated radio frequency R&D program”; issued 30 September 2015
supports SIGINT, MASINT, GEOINT, C4ISR, SOF
Cyber Security & Information Systems Technical Area Tasks; issued 19 November 2015 (added w 9 corporations) to earlier $5 billion contract
“cutting-edge weapon solutions” for AFRL (Munitions); issued 28 Dec 2015
R&D, analysis, integration, systems engineering, flyable and non-flyable tech demonstrators, prototypes, test & eval, rapid delivery
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) (Atlanta, GA)
C4I and cyberspace technology research à work in San Diego, CA (90%); Atlanta, GA (10%); issued 17 March 2016
R&D, engineering; state of-the-art and proof-of-concept sensor systems; basic & advanced technology R&D for MDA; issued 29 March 2016
R&D in Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security; provide multi-model analog sensing to adaptively determine what features to compute from signals emitted by a device during training and testing, extracting sub-bands of interest, de-noising the individual signals, and removing interfering transmission by other devices in the vicinity; issued 25 May 2016
Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. (Atlanta, GA)
requirements pertaining to the design, development, modification, assessment, and testing of integrated electronics systems, sensors, weapon systems, communications and information infrastructure for Army Space & Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, AL; issued 23 March 2016
University of Hawaii Systems (Honolulu, HI)
transition of operations, management, and research development effort for Maui High Performance Computing for the operation and maintenance of a state-of-the-art computing environment that consists of large-scale parallel computing platforms and the associated software development, technical support, and network connectivity required for support in both classified and unclassified environments; issued 30 October 2015 à work in Kihei, Maui, HI
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Laurel, MD)
science & technology analysis, studies, experiments; engineering/dev for practical application of investigative findings and theories of a scientific or technical nature through employment of their 8 core competencies in support of USSOCOM; issued 3 March 2015
MIT
to operate Lincoln Laboratory;
issued 17 March 2015 … $1.7 billion
issued 27 April 2015 … $3 billion
“the study, development and creation of equipment and material”
DARPA’s Living Foundries program: 1000 Molecules; issued 4 May 2015 à work in Cambridge, MA; Boston, MA; Evanston, IL; San Francisco, CA
R&D in transparent computing; research to develop novel tagging and tracking approaches for establishing the causal relationships among activities across an enterprise environment, particularly focused on distinguishing between the "low and slow" Advance Persistent Threat (APT) and regular user and system activities; issued 29 June 2015
New Mexico State University (next door to White Sands Missile Range)
support the Information Operations Vulnerability/Survivability Assessment (IOVSA) program; issued 27 July 2015
IOVSA = methodology for evaluating DOD information technology systems
University of Pennsylvania
Linguistic Data Consortium (Philadelphia, PA); issued 4 September 2015
research work on the Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) program; LORELEI aims to dramatically advance the state of computational linguistics & human language technology to enable rapid, low-cost development of capabilities for low-resource languages à work in Philadelphia, PA (88%); Boulder, CO (3%); Budapest, Hungary (1%); College Park, MD (8%)
Rand Corp. (Santa Monica, CA)
independent gov studies, issued 26 September 2014
acquire studies and analysis support for the National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) Federally Funded Research & Development Center (FFRDC) that supports the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, combatant commands, the defense agencies, and DOD components. RAND operates NDRI FFRDC, which is sponsored by the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics à work in Washington, DC; issued 8 October 2015
USAF requirements (air/space/cyber; strategy, modernization, employment, manpower, resource management), issued 21 March 2016
Research Triangle Park, NC
TT Government Solutions
cyber security collaborative research alliance; issued 26 September 2014
contracts involving Research Triangle Park, but based elsewhere
Ichor Medical Systems: immunology work, issued 1 August 2014
GXM Consulting (Ashburn, VA): secure tactical comms, issued 23 September 2014
Scitor Corporation (Reston, VA):
high-altitude off-nadir data collection for counterinsurgency ops, issued 26 September 2014
signature-based counter IED, issued 16 February 2016 AND issued 17 February 2016
human identification research technology assessment, issued 7 March 2016
Alakai Defense Systems (Largo, FL): checkpoint explosives detection systems, issued 29 September 2014
GlaxoSmithKline: influenza vaccine and syringes, issued 15 June 2015
massive $800 million contract to multiple corporations for R&D “to counteract asymmetrical threats”; issued 18 September 2015
Intevac Photonics (Santa Clara, CA): advanced digital low light imaging module, issued 30 September 2015
CAE USA (Tampa, FL) FMS to Kuwait re: KC-130J training, issued 16 November 2015
Sotera Defense Solutions (Herndon, VA): DARPA & Development Counter Insurgency Operations project, issued 21 January 2016
four separate corporations: help the Assistant Secretary of the Army Adaptive Red Team, issued 16 February 2016
Evistacom LLC (Atlanta, GA): develop “capability to decisively establish the identity of adversaries and effectively link that identity to other information” for DOD and allies, issued 11 March 2016
The University of Southern California
develop an “indexing and search system that will harvest and harmonize heterogeneous and obfuscated data to extract key elements of knowledge”; issued 29 September 2014
R&D and other activities within modeling and simulation core competencies in the areas of training, education, operation, health, and other arenas where research technologies and methodologies may be applied; issued 29 September 2014
Information Sciences Institute (Los Angeles, CA)
DARPA Circuit Realization at Faster Timescales (CRAFT) – FinFET Foundry/Design Aggregation Services program, Phase 1 issued 1 Dec 2015 à work in Marina Del Rey, CA
Utah State University Research Foundation / Space Dynamic Laboratory (North Logan, UT)
dynamic sensor support; R&D to maintain essential engineering & capability in: sensor development, image processing, data analysis; issued 15 March 2016
research support into ISR systems; issued 25 May 2016
University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (Seattle, WA)
scientific & engineering services re: design, development, upgrade of AN/BQH-9(V) [PDF] signal data recording set & tape processing system; issued 18 March 2016
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
Persistent Littoral Undersea Surveillance program; Digital Acoustic Communication development program; Remote Environmental Measuring Units (REMUS) autonomous undersea vehicle; EOD “fast track” program, development and operational support for REMUS Automatic Submarine Launch & Recovery Capability program; issued 31 October 2014
work in Woods Hole, MA; Newport, RI; Andros Island, Bahamas; Groton, CT; San Diego, CA; Kings Bay, GA; Bangor, WA; Niantic, CT; Dresden, NY; Keyport, WA
Wright State University (Dayton, OH) / Wright State Applied Research Corp. (Beavercreek, OH)
R&D on sensor exploitation, issued 27 February 2015
R&D on how semi-autonomous UAV (drones) interact, issued 18 June 2015
human-machine teaming for ISR analysis; research on: (1) ISR knowledge elicitation; (2) ISR concept design and development; and (3) ISR performance assessment; issued 14 August 2015
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