The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced it awarded MITRE Corp. a $29 million contract to operate the first federally funded research and development center – FFRDC, dedicated to cybersecurity.
MITRE operates six other FFRDCs and NIST said the center, in Montgomery County, Md., helps businesses secure their data and digital infrastructure by bringing together experts from industry, government and academia to provide real-world cybersecurity solutions based on commercially available technologies.
Commerce secretary Penny Pritzker said the award (with a maximum amount of about $5 billion over 25 years) would enable the center to “expand and accelerate its public-private collaborations.”
Printing Office Partnering with Digital Library to Widen Access
The Government Printing Office has announced a partnership with the Digital Public Library of America – DPLA, to make available the Catalog of US Government Publications – CGP, to the public.
The DPLA is a repository of digitized content from American libraries, archives, and museums that is available for free to the public and through the partnership about 150,000 records from CGP (including federal regulations, reports and hearings) will be added, according to the GPO.
Digital Public Library of America: http://dp.la