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SRI International Awarded Ten Major R&D Contracts
Series of Contract Wins Underscores Research Institute’s
Success in Developing Advanced Communications and Information
Technologies
Menlo Park, Calif. (June 30, 1997) -- Reflecting its continued push to develop advanced
communications and information technologies, SRI International today
announced that it has been awarded nine major technology development
contracts totaling more than 0 million for the U.S. Department of
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and commercial
clients.
The series of contracts taps SRI’s broad expertise in developing and testing advanced communications and information technologies -- from communications and network protocols to development of new knowledge systems and imaging tools. The contracts range from six months to three years.
“Since our founding 50 years ago, SRI has been committed to
pushing the horizon in information technology development. With
knowledge and information emerging as the new ‘currency’ and
source of competitive advantage, creating technologies that provide
more secure and flexible ways of gathering, sharing and interpreting
information will be critical,” said Michael S. Frankel, Vice
President of SRI’s Information Science & Technology group.
“This group of contracts is testament to SRI’s track record for
delivering innovative solutions through focused R&D efforts.”
SRI’s Information Science & Technology group combines expertise in artificial intelligence, client/server computing, electronic commerce, networking, multimedia, speech recognition, software programming and other key IT areas to create new solutions for government and commercial use. SRI was one of the first four nodes on the ARPANET, today’s Internet, and has been instrumental in the development of numerous computing, communications and imaging technologies.
The new development contracts cover a spectrum of communications and information management issues, including:
Development of a new resource management system for distributed, real-time systems including the growing number of applications in transportation, communications, automation, manufacturing, medical, banking and entertainment that require immediate data accuracy and access. The resource management system will provide Adaptive Quality of Service (QoS)-driven protocols and systems for managing computing, storage and communication resources more effectively.
Creation of collaborative computing techniques and tools designed to disseminate, organize and retrieve multimedia information in a more intelligent and timely fashion.
Development and testing of advanced secure wireless networks for the Global Mobile Information Systems Program (GloMo). The initiative is an extension of SRI’s work in the InfoTech program, in which SRI demonstrated secure information transfers from private, fixed location world wide web servers on the Internet to mobile military and law enforcement users.
Creation of noise suppresser solutions -- an outgrowth of SRI’s internal R&D work on noise cancellation technologies -- using micro actuator arrays of artificial muscle to quiet various types of airplane equipment, including generators and engines. The initial application will be for Department of Defense with follow-on opportunities for the commercial aircraft industry.
Research and development of new knowledge management tools designed to improve users’ ability to gather and analyze information stored on corporate information systems and online information sources. SRI’s new tools will enable more rapid construction of large-scale knowledge bases, more efficient user interaction and more effective integration of information from multiple data sources.
Development of new optical scanning technologies to read information from package labels. SRI will develop four systems for testing which include scanner technology that reads labels on packages that move by on a conveyor belt, recognize specific types of labels, extract the address and other relevant information and use commercial optical character recognition (OCR) software to decipher the information.
Creation of a new Situation Awareness System, including a combination of artificial intelligence-based planning, reasoning and advanced networking to provide accurate information instantaneously to dismounted infantrymen. SRI will work with engineers from ITT, BBN, Rockwell and Computing Devices International.
Design, analysis, performance testing and systems alternatives for two new, robust adaptive network protocols to ensure more efficient traffic management and increased multicasting reliability for DARPA’s Small Unit Operations (SUO).
Development of an integrated residential and business communications gateway to feature a rich Quality of Service (QoS) network that is specially designed to handle increased “traffic” stemming from growing consumer demand for more services. The new system will offer more rapid deployment of information along with an easy upgrade path.
A leader in defining next-generation technologies in computer science, networking, machine intelligence and other information-based systems, SRI’s Information Science & Technology group focuses on many aspects of information and communications technologies. Since developing the computer mouse and collaborative computing and serving as administrator of ARPANET, SRI has remained at the forefront of new information technology developments and applications.
SRI International is one of the largest research, technology development and consulting firms in the world providing corporations, governments and organizations worldwide with the technology research and resources needed for competing more effectively in today's changing global environment.
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