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COVID-19 Acquisition/Contracting
MITRE’s Acquisition in the Digital Age (AiDA) team curated a COVID-19 page on our AiDA website focused on Acquisition and Contracting for government COVID-19 response. Content includes contracting strategies and flexibilities leveraging both existing authorities, and...
Open Source for Personal Protective Equipment
According to the CDC, COVID-19 is believed to be spread mainly from person-to-person, “through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes." In order to safely treat patients, healthcare personnel must don appropriate Personal Protective...
Ventilator Project at MassRobotics
COVID-19 targets the lungs causing respiratory illness with, in severe cases, complications like pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Severe cases will require a ventilator to be able to deliver enough oxygen into the lungs to the rest of the body. ...
Virtual Spark Collider & Pitch Bowl AF 12 March
We all know flexibility is the key to airpower (according to us Air Force folks), so despite having to cancel our in-person Spark Collider and Pitch Bowl events in Austin this week, we're making them virtual! Brought to you out of Mission Control in Capital...
MassChallenge Seeks Ocean Tech Startups for RI “BlueTech Track”
"As someone who spends quite a bit of time both in a lab and on a boat off Narragansett Bay researching undersea technologies, I’m delighted that MITRE is teaming up with MassChallenge to launch their “Bluetech Track.” This is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs...
Accelerating Startups in Texas
The MITRE Air Force Cyber Operations Portfolio, in collaboration with Bridging Innovation, is working with MassChallenge Texas to help shape and scope their next accelerator program in San Antonio. In late January, MassChallenge Texas, which manages established...
DEFxBoston 3-5 April- (will be virtual session on 4 April only)
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Defense Entrepreneurs Forum DEFx Boston 2020 - A.I. Strategy & Defense at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been POSTPONED! Due to the corona virus outbreak, safety measures are being taken by MIT and CSAIL. FYI there will be a...
Demo Day: The Catalyst Space Accelerator presents the Data Fusion cohort! 2 April POSTPONED TO FUTURE DATE
On Thursday April 2, join the Catalyst Space Accelerator located at the Catalyst Campus in COS for their Demo Day which will highlight their Data Fusion cohort. Join us for this exciting event where you have the opportunity to watch the Data Fusion Accelerator cohort...
Piloting a Patient Data Use Agreement in the MassChallenge HealthTech Program
As more health and health care goes digital, patients are navigating how to access and use their data in unprecedented ways. While the technology is moving quickly to meet patient needs, the legal aspects associated with individual data ownership are still developing....
MassRobotics Celebrates New Expanded Hub for Startup Innovation
It was standing room only as media, dignitaries, tech luminaries, and AI-enabled droids gathered for the official opening of MassRobotics' new 25,000 square-foot laboratory, demonstration, and event space in Boston’s Seaport Innovation District. Boston Mayor Marty...