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US Gives Raytheon $10.5M For 'Serious Games'

Posted by Soulskill on from the recruit-from-wow-raids dept.

coondoggie writes "These aren't your basic video gaming systems here. The U.S. government gave Raytheon BBN Technologies $10.5 million today to develop what it called 'serious games' that feature an international detective theme developed by game designers, cognitive psychologists and experts in intelligence analysis."

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  1. Re:Link by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've never heard of Raythorn BBN Technologies and I bet you haven't either.

    Bolt, Beranek and Newman basically built the first generation of the internet.
    Raytheon is the single largest private employer in the state of Massachusetts.
    Apparently Raytheon purchased BBN - although for a while during the dotcom crazy they were called Genuity.

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