NIWC Atlantic Improves Software, Systems Assessments & Authorizations Process

Source: United States Navy

Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic’s Command Information Office (CmdIO) team is making significant strides in the software and systems assessments and authorizations (A&A) process by implementing multiple new efficiencies. In turn, these efforts are helping to improve cybersecurity across the command, and ultimately, for the Navy.

Foreign-Language Training Companies Admit to Participating in Conspiracy to Defraud the United States

Source: United States Department of Justice 2

Two providers of foreign-language services, Comprehensive Language Center Inc. (CLCI), based in the Washington, D.C., area, and Berlitz Languages Inc. (Berlitz), based in New Jersey, were charged with participating in a conspiracy to defraud the United States by impeding, impairing, obstructing, and defeating competitive bidding for a multi-million dollar foreign-language training contract issued by the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2017, the Department of Justice announced today. 

Justice Department Joins Computational Antitrust Project at Stanford Law School

Source: United States Department of Justice 2

The Department of Justice announced today that it will participate in the Computational Antitrust project, hosted by the Stanford University CodeX Center and created by Professor Thibault Schrepel. The project brings together academics from law, computer science, and economics as well as developers, policymakers, and antitrust agencies from around the world to discuss how technology and automation can improve antitrust enforcement.

Justice Department Issues Business Review Letter for Proposed University Technology Licensing Program

Source: United States Department of Justice 2

The Justice  Department’s Antitrust Division announced today that it has completed its review of a proposed joint patent licensing pool known as the University Technology Licensing Program (UTLP).  UTLP is a proposal by participating universities to offer licenses to their physical science patents relating to specified emerging technologies.