Willie May, director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been chosen by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer to receive the group’s  Laboratory Director of the Year Award.

FLC recognized May after the group found that the agency has completed more than two-thirds of approximately 1,000 active lab-to-market programs between fiscal 2013 and fiscal 2015 under his oversight, NIST said Thursday.

The award also recognizes his efforts to streamline the process for arrangement and management of cooperative research and development agreements between the agency and external organizations.

NIST added a research team that comprises W. Stuart Dols, Steven Emmerich and Brian Polidoro has won FLC’s Excellence in Technology Transfer Award for their work on a computer simulation program that aims to predict indoor air and pollutant movement.

FLC will present the awards to May, Dols, Emmerich and Polidoro during the consortium’s national meeting that will be held April 27 in Chicago.

May also currently serves as undersecretary of standards and technology at the Commerce Department.

Randy Marchany, chief information security officer at Virginia Tech, has said the federal government has a propensity to restrict the sharing of some cyber threat data and ongoing breach campaigns, Nextgov reported Wednesday.

Aliya Sternstein writes Marchany made his remarks at a cybersecurity conference Tuesday hosted by the U.S. Cyber Challenge and the Association for Federal Information Resources Management.

He said information on cyber incidents could help his team identify malicious threats on the school’s network infrastructure as well as disseminate information with other institutions in the education sector.

“The federal government now has this tendency to try to put a classified label on everything,” he told conference attendees.

“The information that we do get turns out to be really, really valuable in helping us correlate [suspicious activity],” he added.

In 2013, Virginia Tech reported a breach on its human resources server that compromised the personal data of approximately 145,000 applicants, the report noted.

CIA Deputy Director Andrew Hallman has said the agency needs to make culture and technical changes in order to manage an explosion of data and exploit information to help address national security challenges, Nextgov reported Wednesday.

Frank Konkel writes Hallman leads a digital innovation directorate that CIA established last year to transform its digital ecosystem, explore data management ideas and identify ways for consumers to access useful data.

He told a Cloudera-sponsored federal forum Tuesday modernizing the CIA’s underlying digital infrastructure  entails a “decentralized governance process with just enough high-level guidance to operationalize.”

CIA aims to build a solid strategy around big data after it adopted an Amazon Web Services-built cloud computing platform, Konkel reports.

The report said Hallman also believes big data technology can help agency analysts to gain insight into potential adversaries’ digital exhaust.

The U.S. Army continues its work to develop a noise-encrypted radar waveform designed to hide radar emissions in efforts to address issues in radar system performance in a radio frequency environments.

Army Materiel Command‘s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center currently performs research and development work on the Advanced Pulse Compression Noise waveform, which uses elements from traditional and non-traditional waveforms, the Army said Tuesday.

“Techniques such as real-time re-programmable waveform synthesis and low probability of intercept/low probability of detection provide added capability that will address the emerging electromagnetic spectrum challenges our soldiers are likely to face in the future,” said Paul Zablocky, director of CERDEC’s intelligence and information warfare directorate.

The Army added that APCN can be used by both soldiers and civilian law enforcement agencies, is tunable or programmable in real time and has the potential to minimize challenges due to frequency congestion.

The Army Research Laboratory helped CERDEC create an experimental demonstrator used for the APCN waveform development.

The radar system will undergo additional experiments using advanced radar waveforms in the coming days, the Army said.