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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Enhances Public Safety with CentralSquare Technologies' Pro Suite

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

CentralSquare Technologies , an industry leader in public sector technology, today announced that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) funded by NASA, has selected CentralSquare Technologies’ Public Safety Pro Suite to replace Caliber Public Safety and Motorola Solutions.

Key Points: 
  • CentralSquare Technologies , an industry leader in public sector technology, today announced that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) funded by NASA, has selected CentralSquare Technologies’ Public Safety Pro Suite to replace Caliber Public Safety and Motorola Solutions.
  • NASA JPL will upgrade its campus safety technology to the Pro Suite , including new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), Record Management System (RMS), 911 and Mobile solutions.
  • With CentralSquare Pro Suite, NASA JPL gains advanced capabilities for in-office and field operations.
  • "Within the Pro Suite our connected CAD system can streamline queries, while our mobile functionality enables instant access to calls, all while maintaining critical security."

GovExec Selects MITRE’s Yosry Barsoum as a 2024 Federal 100 Honoree

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

GovExec named Yosry Barsoum , MITRE vice president, a 2024 Federal 100 award winner .

Key Points: 
  • GovExec named Yosry Barsoum , MITRE vice president, a 2024 Federal 100 award winner .
  • The Federal 100 awards recognize leaders from private industry, academia, and government who show how government can better leverage technology to serve its citizens.
  • Under Barsoum’s leadership, his team elevates mission impact for the federal government by working on the toughest challenges across the homeland security and cybersecurity enterprise.
  • GovExec will honor the Federal 100 award winners at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on April 24, 2024.

Two Six Technologies to Lead Discussions on Secure and Resilient Space to Ground Communications at GSAW 2024

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Monday, February 12, 2024

Advances in network software, security, and commercial capabilities provide an opportunity to transform the government ground architecture into the robust and agile network needed in a contested space environment.

Key Points: 
  • Advances in network software, security, and commercial capabilities provide an opportunity to transform the government ground architecture into the robust and agile network needed in a contested space environment.
  • “Two Six is building the technology that creates a ground architecture that fully leverages commercial capabilities and mitigates risk through advancements from traditional aerospace to transform the next era of space to ground communications,” said Ms. O’Rourke.
  • The event is widely attended by both U.S. and International experts in the field and is a key voice for the ground systems community.
  • Gregg Walsh, Plenary Speaker on Secure and Resilient Space to Ground Communications during “Partnerships and Collaboration" session on Wednesday, February 28, 2024
    For more information on the program, registration and lodging, please visit www.gsaw.org .

Medical Device Information Analysis and Sharing Initiative Welcomes Atrium Health

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

MITRE, the independent trusted third party for the Medical Device Information Analysis and Sharing (MDIAS) Public Private Partnership (PPP), today announced the addition of Atrium Health.

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  • MITRE, the independent trusted third party for the Medical Device Information Analysis and Sharing (MDIAS) Public Private Partnership (PPP), today announced the addition of Atrium Health.
  • The Charlotte-based health system is joining the voluntary MDIAS collaboration between the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and stakeholders across the private sector—including patients, hospital providers, and medical device manufacturers—to proactively analyze medical device-related data to improve health care outcomes for consumers.
  • “It’s a pleasure to welcome Atrium Health to MDIAS,” said Kim Warren, vice president of MITRE’s Center for Transforming Health, operator of the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare, a federally funded research and development center , more commonly known as the Health FFRDC .
  • “As an early adopter—and the very first health system to join MDIAS—Atrium Health’s active participation will benefit patients, regulators, and the medical device ecosystem.”
    “Safety is at the heart of our organization,” said Dr. Rasu Shrestha, executive vice president and chief innovation and commercialization officer for Advocate Health, of which Atrium Health is a part.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Awards MITRE New Five-Year Contract to Continue Operating Health R&D Center

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

MITRE announced a new five-year contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to operate the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare, a federally funded research and development center , more commonly known as the Health FFRDC .

Key Points: 
  • MITRE announced a new five-year contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to operate the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare, a federally funded research and development center , more commonly known as the Health FFRDC .
  • Established in 2012 , the Health FFRDC serves the public interest by tackling complex, cross-cutting challenges affecting health and well-being.
  • As the Health FFRDC operator, MITRE serves as an objective advisor to CMS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, Administration for Children and Families, and all the operating divisions across HHS, as well as other governmental organizations with health missions.
  • “Leading the Health FFRDC over the past decade has been an absolute honor and privilege for MITRE,” said Kim Warren, vice president of MITRE’s Center for Transforming Health that operates the Health FFRDC.

Children’s Mental Health Crisis in the United States Demands Nationwide “System of Systems” Approach

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

A “complete reimagination of the way we address mental health among our young people” is needed in the United States.

Key Points: 
  • A “complete reimagination of the way we address mental health among our young people” is needed in the United States.
  • This “first nationally representative look at the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health of our nation’s youth” found 37.1% of students reported that they experienced poor mental health during the pandemic, and 31.1% experienced poor mental health during the 30 days preceding the survey.
  • 11) Re-establish an expectation in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Mental Health Block Grant that states submit a plan for children and young people’s mental health.
  • For more information about MITRE’s “ A Vision for Mental Health Systems of Care for Young People ,” or to provide feedback, please contact [email protected] .

MITRE Launches Cyber Resiliency Engineering Framework Navigator

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Thursday, February 2, 2023

MITRE released the Cyber Resiliency Engineering Framework (CREF) Navigator TM — a free, visualization tool that allows organizations to customize their cyber resiliency goals, objectives, techniques, as aligned with NIST SP 800-160, Volume 2 (Rev.

Key Points: 
  • MITRE released the Cyber Resiliency Engineering Framework (CREF) Navigator TM — a free, visualization tool that allows organizations to customize their cyber resiliency goals, objectives, techniques, as aligned with NIST SP 800-160, Volume 2 (Rev.
  • “Resiliency is the ultimate goal of cybersecurity,” said Wen Masters, vice president, cyber technologies, MITRE.
  • “We’ve taken the original cyber resiliency framework we created with NIST and now made it searchable and visualized,” said Shane Steiger, principal cybersecurity engineer, MITRE.
  • “We plan to keep evolving the Navigator as the discipline of cyber resiliency engineering matures.”
    Future enhancements to the CREF Navigator are planned to provide additional automated support for organizations interested in building stronger defenses for their critical infrastructure.

Dentons Global Advisors-ASG and MITRE to Sponsor ACRES Health-Science System Design Initiative at the National Academy of Medicine

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Thursday, December 8, 2022

BOSTON, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES) announced today that Dentons Global Advisors-Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG) and MITRE are sponsoring SYNERGY 2022, a unique exercise to envision a comprehensive integrated system for the future-state of health and science through application of systems-thinking and systems engineering principles.

Key Points: 
  • SYNERGY 2022, ACRES Health-Science System Design Initiative at the National Academy of Medicine to envision a comprehensive integrated system for the future of health and science using systems-thinking and systems engineering principles, is being sponsored by Dentons Global Advisors-ASG and MITRE.
  • ACRES, together with our partner organizations, FasterCures and MITRE, have launched an initiative to change the way we think about health and science in a more systematic way, and our sponsors, Dentons Global Advisors-ASG and MITRE, are making it possible."
  • The SYNERGY 2022 event, being hosted by the National Academy of Medicine, was previously announced by ACRES last month.
  • The event convenes on December 12-13 at the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Washington, DC.

National Academy of Medicine to Host SYNERGY Event Aimed at Envisioning a Future HealthScience System

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

BOSTON, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- SYNERGY 2022 is the third event in a series of 'systems-thinking' exercises convened by ACRES since its founding in 2012, and the most ambitious to date. Together with its partner organizations, the MITRE Corporation and FasterCures, ACRES is bringing together a select group of 60 leaders and innovators from health, business, government, technology, academia, and patient groups to apply systems-thinking and systems engineering principles to envision a new integrated approach to health and science in the US. Our goal is to create a truly enterprise-wide system that uses advanced technologies and analytics to achieve levels of quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness that have not previously been possible in health and science.

Key Points: 
  • The Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES) announced today that the National Academy of Medicine will host a special systems event, SYNERGY 2022, to convene at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine on December 12-13, 2022 in Washington, DC.
  • The vision is now clearer, but advances in practical execution depend up on the sorts of discussions anticipated at SYNERGY 2022."
  • SYNERGY 2022's two-day working exercise in systems thinking seeks to envision and draft a blueprint for an "Intelligent HealthScience System".
  • ACRES, The National Academy of Medicine, MITRE Corporation, and The Milken Institute are 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations operating in the public interest.

Bugcrowd Recognized as Security Numbering Authority for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd, the leader in crowdsourced cybersecurity, today announced it has been authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA).

Key Points: 
  • The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program is an international, community-based effort that relies on the community to discover vulnerabilities.
  • The discovered vulnerabilities are then assigned and published to the CVE List , which feeds the U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD).
  • "Bugcrowd" and "Bugcrowd Security Knowledge Platform" are trademarks of Bugcrowd Inc. and its subsidiaries.
  • Trusted by organizations across the globe, Bugcrowd uncovers and remediates vulnerabilities before they interrupt business by leveraging expert ingenuity and the knowledge of world-class security researchers.