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BBN Technologies Corp. has landed $22.5 million from the U.S. Army for its Boomerang gunshot detection technology, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Under the deal, BBN will supply 1,095 Boomerang Generation III gunshot detection systems and 2,195 Boomerang vehicle installation kits. Work on the contract will be performed in Cambridge and is expected to be completed by February 2010.
Last month, BBN landed $14 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for language translation technology. The deal extends BBN’s Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) program into its fourth year out of a possible five. During the project’s first three years, BBN developed technology for the automatic translation of Arabic newswire text and broadcast news into English. Under the latest contract BBN will work to increase the accuracy of the translation of Arabic speech and text.
In June, BBN got $29.7 million from the U.S. Air Force to develop a computer system able to read prose and convert it to information understandable by an artificial intelligence.
Known widely for developing part of the forerunner network to the Internet, BBN is a 60 year-old firm with 700 employees in Cambridge, Middletown, R.I., and five U.S. facilities outside New England.
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