President Obama recently unveiled a national Climate Action Plan to “cut carbon pollution, protect our country from the impacts of climate change, and lead the world in a coordinated assault on a changing climate.” A key plan component is directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to work with states and businesses to reduce carbon pollution […]
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Novel Platform Accelerates the Discovery of New, Targeted Cancer Therapies
For more than 75 years, chemotherapy has been the standard of care for cancer treatment around the world. While this class of drugs has extended and saved many lives, chemotherapies lack the ability to specifically target cancer cells, making them less effective and more toxic than desirable. Newer classes of drugs that effectively target cancer cells […]
QED-C Goes to the Hill
Rayburn House Office Building – November 19, 2019 Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) Executive Director, Dr. Joe Broz (far left), participated in a quantum information science panel discussion for Congressional Staff. Dr. Arthur Hermann (second from the left) with the Hudson Institute and head of the Quantum Alliance Initiative organized the panel, entitled “A Discussion […]
SRI International subsidiary Ravenswood Solutions awarded $555M contract to support Army National Guard training program
Ravenswood Solutions, a subsidiary of SRI International, has won a $555M contract to provide an indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for support to the Army National Guard’s (ARNG) eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) program. The single award contract will have a potential value of $555 million and will provide planning, operations, and sustainment for […]
SRI International awarded an additional five years of funding by the Office of Special Education Programs
SRI International was awarded an additional five years of funding by the Office of Special Education Programs in the U.S. Department of Education to continue leading the Center for IDEA Early Childhood Data Systems (the DaSy Center). IDEA stands for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which addresses the provision of services to young children with […]
Build Supportive Learning Environments with Proven Practices from SRI’s Student Behavior Research Division
Did you know? More than one of every five students have, or are at risk for, an emotional or behavioral disorder, such as depression or ADHD. Additionally, research suggests many students may also face certain stressors, trauma or other problems in their daily lives, which can adversely affect a student’s learning, ability to focus on […]
Spaceflight Industries’ SSO-A Flight Launches with SRI International’s CUBIT Technology Onboard, Developed to Track and Identify Low Earth Orbit Satellites
Over the last few years, CubeSats (miniaturized satellites) have risen in popularity due to their low cost and ability to obtain low-altitude orbits easily. Rideshare opportunities aboard rockets have driven down the cost of a launch, enabling more companies to bring payloads to orbit. The result is a dramatic increase in the number of new […]
Engineering a Living Drug Factory
As the immune system’s equivalent of guided missiles, T-cells offer a seemingly ideal approach to disease management. They actively locate diseased cells and, after arriving at their target, exert a therapeutic effect proportionate to the disease burden. Unfortunately, many diseases such as cancer, autoimmune disorders and viral infections have immunological roots, and have become proficient […]
The Future of Augmentation
The “Mother of All Demos” on December 9, 1968 was a truly seminal event. Doug Engelbart and his SRI team introduced to the world forms of human-computer interaction that are now ubiquitous: a screen divided into windows, typing integrated with a pointing device, hypertext, shared-screen teleconferencing. While these innovations have had enormous impact, they are […]