SOMERVILLE, Mass. – The Massachusetts eHealth Institute’s (MeHI) has selected Hemorai, Mae, and SimpliFed as the winners of their spring Digital Health Sandbox Challenge. Each company will be awarded $50,000 to develop and test their digital health solutions with key partners in the Massachusetts ecosystem. The partners will work with the companies to accelerate research and development of technologies aimed at supporting the unique health needs of women+.
WORCESTER, Mass. –The MassCyberCenter has launched the Cyber Resilient Massachusetts Grant Program, a $1.4 million initiative to help local governments improve their cyber defenses. The program will provide municipalities with grants to fund narrowly focused cybersecurity technology upgrades identified through vulnerability assessments.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – The Northeast Microelectronics Coalition (NEMC) Hub at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) has announced the hiring of Mark Halfman as Hub director.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – Today, the Healey-Driscoll Administration announced a $1.3 million, two-year grant to Boston University to expand and improve the capabilities of the New England Research Cloud (NERC). NERC serves as a collaborative, world-class cloud computing service housed at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – The winner of Massachusetts eHealth Institute’s (MeHI) first Medicaid Challenge is Tembo Health. Tembo Health will receive a $50,000 grant to pilot their remote monitoring technology with members of the nonprofit health insurance company, WellSense.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – The Healey-Driscoll Administration has awarded $555,000 to support the establishment of the Health AI Assurance Laboratory located at UMass Chan Medical School and run in partnership with Bedford-based MITRE Corporation. The new lab will be supported through the Technology & Innovation Ecosystem Awards Program managed by the Innovation Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, along with $137,000 in matching investments from the private sector.
The Biden-Harris Administration and the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that Massachusetts had been allocated $14.1 million from the State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program, an “Internet for All” initiative designed to give individuals and communities the tools, skills and opportunities they need for meaningful access to high-speed Internet service.
BOSTON – The Northeast Microelectronics Coalition (NEMC) Hub has submitted 15 proposals to the federal government’s Microelectronics Commons Call for Projects launched in late calendar year 2023, pulling together collaborative projects that span the NEMC Hub’s 170 member organizations from across the Northeast. Highlighting the Hub’s strength in diverse sectors, its submissions covered all six of the critical technology execution areas identified by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) including 5G/6G technology, AI Hardware, Commercial Leap Ahead Technologies, Electromagnetic Warfare, Secure Edge/IoT computing, and Quantum Technologies.
WESTBOROUGH, MA – Today, the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) at MassTech announced the launch of the Residential Internet Retrofit Program, a $22 million statewide initiative to equip public and affordable housing units across the state with high-speed internet for current and future residents. MBI will bring together Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and property owners to upgrade in-building telecommunications wiring, equipment, and infrastructure within older housing developments to provide residents with the necessary network capabilities to fully utilize high-speed internet service essential for daily activities such as communicating with friends and family, remote work, online educational opportunities, and telehealth appointments.
WESTBOROUGH, MASS. — Today, the Healey-Driscoll Administration announced 17 new grantees from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Accelerate Program (MMAP) during an event in Charlestown. A total of $3,144,982 was awarded to the manufacturers, empowering them to purchase new capital equipment to enhance production, meet customer demand, increase workforce skills for employees, and boost job creation.
