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  • INSA Executive Committee Adds Five New Members - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INSA Executive Committee Adds Five New Members

    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has added five new members to its executive committee that includes former senior government officials and senior executives from the private sector. INSA said Wednesday it welcomed the five subject matter experts and senior-level executives to advise the organization’s leaders on prospective research initiatives, membership activities, events and strategic planning […] More

  • VA, IBM Enter Partnership to Use Watson Cognitive System For Cancer Treatment Identification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA, IBM Enter Partnership to Use Watson Cognitive System For Cancer Treatment Identification

    IBM‘s Watson Health business unit and the Department of Veteran Affairs have formed a public-private partnership to help VA doctors identify personalized cancer treatment options for veterans. The VA said Wednesday scientists and pathologists will use IBM’s Watson for Genomics technology to determine possible cancer-causing mutations from patients’ genetic alteration files and identify potential treatment options for those mutations. […] More

  • AFR: IBM to Open Canberra Cyber Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AFR: IBM to Open Canberra Cyber Center

    IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has announced the company plans to establish a cybersecurity center in the country’s capital of Canberra, the Australian Financial Review reported Tuesday. Paul Smith writes Kevin Zuccato, former director of Australia’s High Tech Crime Centre, was appointed to lead IBM’s National Cyber Security Centre. The center will offer collaboration with security specialists and access to […] More

  • IBM, UK MoD Unveil Defense Cyber Aptitude Test Assessment Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, UK MoD Unveil Defense Cyber Aptitude Test Assessment Service

    The U.K.’s ministry of defense and IBM have unveiled the Defense Cyber Aptitude Test assessment service during the IBM HR Summit 2016, the Recruiter reported Thursday. Recruiter writes that DCAT is designed to check a military service member’s potential to work in cyberspace-related fields by determining behavioral characteristics and testing attention to detail, numerical and verbal skills and ability to […] More

  • Research and Markets Sets UCaaS Market CAGR at 11.2% in 2016-2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets Sets UCaaS Market CAGR at 11.2% in 2016-2022

    A new Research and Markets report forecasts the unified communication as a service market to reach a compound annual growth rate of 11.2 percent beginning in 2016 through 2022. The report indicates that telecommunications, information technology and retail applications currently dominate the market and that banking, financial services and insurance and logistics will drive the […] More

  • IBM-Ponemon Institute Study Finds Data Breach Costs Up 29% Since 2013; Larry Ponemon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM-Ponemon Institute Study Finds Data Breach Costs Up 29% Since 2013; Larry Ponemon Comments

    A new study carried out by IBM and the Ponemon Institute has reported the average cost of data breaches per company has risen 29 percent since 2013 to $4 million. IBM said Wednesday the annual Cost of a Data Breach study found security incidents in 2015 rose 64 percent from the prior year due to growth of threats in terms of volume […] More

  • Andras Szakal Receives Executive Mosaic's Top CTO Executives Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andras Szakal Receives Executive Mosaic’s Top CTO Executives Award

    ANDRAS SZAKAL VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER IBM U.S. FEDERAL Andras Szakal is vice president and chief technology officer IBM U.S. Federal. He is responsible for IBM’s industry solution technology strategy in support of the U.S. Federal customer. Mr. Szakal was appointed IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of IBM’s Federal Software Architecture team in […] More

  • George Washington University & IBM Start Cyber, Homeland Security Task Forces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    George Washington University & IBM Start Cyber, Homeland Security Task Forces

    George Washington University and IBM have established four task forces to support GWU’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security unit’s efforts to deliver research and analysis on cyber, homeland security and counterterrorism policies. John Lainhart and Christopher Ballister from the IBM Center for the Business of Government wrote in a blog post published Friday that CCHS works to address cyber and homeland security […] More

  • EnerTech Taps IBM, Waterfund to Support Kuwait Water Utility Mgmt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EnerTech Taps IBM, Waterfund to Support Kuwait Water Utility Mgmt

    EnerTech, a unit of Kuwait’s investment authority, has selected IBM and Waterfund to deploy their jointly developed cloud-based business service to model the country’s water technology investments. IBM said Thursday the Waterfund Insights Service was designed to provide data visualization services through the IBM cloud to support the decision-making of water utility managers, corporate water managers and government agencies […] More

  • IBM, University Partner Forge Alliance to Launch Facility for Cognitive Computing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, University Partner Forge Alliance to Launch Facility for Cognitive Computing

    IBM has forged a multi-year alliance with the University of Maryland in Baltimore County in an effort to build the Accelerated Cognitive Cybersecurity Laboratory that will open in the fall of 2016. UMBC’s College of Engineering and Information Technology will house the new laboratory, which will work to discover new cognitive computing applications on cybersecurity using analytics and […] More

  • IBM, SK Holdings C&C to Train Watson on Korean Language; Park Jung-ho Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, SK Holdings C&C to Train Watson on Korean Language; Park Jung-ho Comments

    IBM and South Korea-based information technology firm SK Holdings C&C will collaborate on efforts to add Korean to the IBM-built Watson cognitive computing platform’s list of seven conversational languages. IBM said Sunday the partnership aims to provide application program interfaces and services designed to help South Korean application developers develop their own software apps in their native […] More

  • IBM Seeks to Address Community Health Challenges Through New Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Seeks to Address Community Health Challenges Through New Program

    IBM has introduced a program that aims to help communities address primary care concerns, shortage in medical personnel and other healthcare challenges through the adoption of analytics, artificial intelligence and other cognitive technology platforms. Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, president and CEO, unveiled the IBM Health Corps program at the 13th Annual World Health Care Congress Tuesday […] More