Booz Allen Hamilton CEO Horacio Rozanski said during a recent earnings call the company has invested in artificial intelligence as the Defense Department and federal agencies tap into the technology, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. “We see this as the beginning of something. The market for [AI] is here and Booz Allen is well prepared to capture it,” Rozanski added. […] More

Perspecta has received an 18-month, $49 million “other transaction” agreement to develop an information technology system for the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s Investigation Management program. The company said Tuesday its enterprise services subsidiary will provide a standardized governmentwide IT platform intended to help the National Background Investigation Services manage security and credentialing processes for the federal workforce. The system will be […] More

Radiant Solutions will lead a team composed of at least 25 companies and universities in a bid to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency manage multisource topographic and human geography data. The Maxar Technologies business holds a spot on a potential 10-year, $920 million contract to offer content data management support for NGA’s Janus Geography initiative, the company said Thursday. “We are incredibly […] More

The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun to accept license applications for a device that uses quantum mechanical systems to generate true random numbers. ORNL said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice it seeks a commercialization partner for the true random number generator as part of the lab’s Technology Innovation Program. The quantum mechanics-based device works […] More

As defense budget dollars continue to be treated like a precious metal, there is an increased importance placed on additional capabilities, the development of new technologies and an efficient acquisition system that benefits all the players involved. Sitting around this table discussing the past 20-30 years of acquisition reform is none other than the magnanimous […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded research contracts under the Hybrid Forecasting Competition program that aims to enhance the accuracy of geopolitical event prediction methods. IARPA selected HRL Laboratories, Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary and the University of Southern California to conduct research on hybrid forecasting systems under the HFC program, the Office of the Director of […] More

San Jose, California-based converged data platform developer MapR Technologies has established a federal advisory board that aims to help familiarize U.S. government customers with big data management technologies. MapR said Wednesday the advisory board comprises former government leaders who previously worked at the Defense Department, intelligence community and federal civilian agencies and have knowledge of various issues that affect the government’s information technology modernization efforts. “The board […] More

Washington business leaders have launched the Alliance for Transportation Innovation organization comprised of companies, advocates and experts in transportation technology who seek to improve the country’s transportation systems through innovative technologies. ATI21 will work with transportation innovation industry leaders, including the Consumer Technology Association, the consortium said Thursday. Paul Brubaker, ATI21 chairman and a former administrator of the Transportation […] More

Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have received contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform system integration work for the second phase of the Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment program. The CODE program aims to develop collaborative autonomy algorithms and open software architectures designed to help a single commander stimulate unmanned aircraft systems to perform both individual […] More

Mitre has announced the eight finalists that will compete at the live flight test as part of the final round of the Countering Unauthorized Unmanned Aircraft Systems Challenge. The finalists were selected out of 42 submissions for the C-UAS competition that seeks new systems designed to detect and interdict unauthorized, small drones that pose security […] More

Michael Cosgrave serves as senior vice president of cyber and intelligence solutions at CACI International, where he manages an organization that provides cyber mission support to clients in the federal civilian, defense and intelligence markets. Cosgrave joined CACI in July 2015 after he spent more than three years as a director at Six3 Systems. He also […] More

David Artman, formerly senior vice president at Applied Research Associates, has joined Concurrent Technologies Corp. as SVP of the engineering group. He will lead the company’s technical and business development staff and be responsible for various technology development efforts, CTC said Tuesday. Ed Sheehan Jr., CTC president and CEO, said Artman will help the company expand […] More