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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020

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Contract Awards

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DARPA Awards BAE Contract to Develop Analytics for WMD Detection The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems a contract under the SIGMA+ program to develop advanced analytics to help in the detection of weapons of mass destruction activity. Under the Phase 1 contract, BAE’s FASt Labs research and development team will work with Barnstorm Research and Washington State Univ. to create Multi-info Alerting of Threat CBRNE Hypotheses (MATCH), a technology that will automatically populate a world…

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