page_title: BBN Technologies
section_title: Notable achievements
hierarchical_section_title: BBN Technologies / Notable achievements
caption_attribution_description: English: GREAT LAKES, Ill. (Sept. 16, 2010) Dr. Talib Hussain, senior scientist at BBN Technologies, looks over the shoulder of a recruit during a training session on the Virtual Environments for Ship and Shore Experiential Learning system at Recruit Training Command. The system is a computer game-based, first person role-playing training system that prepares recruits to handle Battle Stations, the final 12-hour test of 17 shipboard scenarios. The Battle Stations scenario includes fighting fires and stopping compartment flooding, and is required for recruits to graduate. (U.S. Navy photo by Scott A. Thornbloom/Released) العربية: الدكتور طالب حسين، أحد الباحثين في شركة بي بي إن للتكتولوجيا يراقب عمل نظام المُحاكاة الخاصّ بتدريبات البحرية الأميركيّة (16 سبتمبر 2016).
context_page_description: BBN Technologies is an American research and development company, based next to Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
  In 1966 the Franklin Institute awarded the firm the Frank P. Brown Medal, in 1999 BBN received the IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition, and on February 1, 2013, BBN was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors that the U.S. government bestows upon scientists, engineers and inventors, by President Barack Obama. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon in 2009.
context_section_description: BBN is best known for its DARPA-sponsored research. It has made notable advances in a wide variety of fields, including acoustics, computer technologies, quantum information, and synthetic biology. In recent years, BBN has led a wide range of research and development projects, including the standardization effort for the security extension to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGPsec), mobile ad hoc networks, advanced speech recognition, the military's Boomerang mobile shooter detection system, cognitive radio spectrum use via the DARPA XG program. In the early 2000s, BBN created the world's first quantum key distribution network, the DARPA Quantum Network, which operated for 3 years across Cambridge and Boston, and which included the world's first fully operational prototype of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector. BBN also led the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) project for the National Science Foundation, which ultimately built out programmable "future Internet" infrastructure across approximately 60 university campuses.
caption: Dr. Talib Hussain, senior scientist at BBN Technologies, looks over the shoulder of a recruit during a training session on the Virtual Environments for Ship and Shore Experiential Learning system at Recruit Training Command.
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