The White House has received voluntary commitments from eight companies to help foster secure, safe and trustworthy development of artificial intelligence tools. Adobe, Cohere, IBM, Nvidia, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI and Stability have committed to adhering to three principles of responsible AI development in support of the current administration's efforts to manage AI risks. More

The top government contracts won by Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA–E) give emerging enterprises sufficient investment to develop innovative technologies for the United States’ energy needs. The agency handles a range of programs and contracts, triumphing in unique methods to generate, store, and use energy.   7 Top Government Contracts Won by Advanced Research Projects […] More

Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented the 2023 Wash100 Award plaque to Anthony Robbins, vice president of NVIDIA’s federal business, during the former’s visit to the company’s Herndon, Virginia office in July. Wash100 Award is an annual selection of the top 100 leaders in the government contracting industry for their demonstrated leadership, innovation, vision and potential […] More

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most sought-after digital solutions by the federal government. AI features, such as speech recognition, expert systems, machine vision, accurate detection, and efficient processing, are integrated into warfare and security systems to reduce risks, fortify defense, and achieve mission success. While the demand for AI is rising, many organizations […] More

The Department of Energy has awarded $40 million in total to 15 projects focused on developing energy-efficient cooling systems for facilities that house computers, servers and other computing infrastructure. The projects were chosen as part of the Biden administration’s goal to reduce the carbon footprint of critical infrastructure, DOE said Tuesday. Data centers are responsible […] More

Artificial intelligence has been steadily tightening its grip on the technology industry for the last half of a decade and innovators in the space are trying as fast as they can to share the benefits with the government. Building on the progress of the internet age and near-universal connectivity, AI leaders are seeing an information […] More

Cloud plays a major role in the public sector’s overarching information technology modernization and digital transformation goals. But the cloud is still relatively new in practice, and organizations are still working through how to best leverage it.  There are many instances in which the public cloud makes sense, and many instances in which it does […] More

Some federal agencies including the U.S. Postal Service and the International Development Finance Corporation are now adopting preconfigured, plug-and-play technologies to speed up deployment and meet their operational requirements, FedTech Magazine reported Thursday. Jonathan Alboum, federal chief technology officer at ServiceNow, said the use of plug-and-play systems not only reflects the transition to a service- […] More

The Office of Naval Research has deployed an artificial intelligence-powered anomaly detection platform from Falkonry to provide sailors with greater visibility into the performance and reliability of naval platforms operating at sea. Falkonry Insight is a cloud-based infrastructure that works to process operational data continuously and automate the detection of equipment reliability and performance anomalies […] More

Michael Adams, director of sales at Carahsoft, recently spoke to ExecutiveBiz about the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the government space. Carahsoft is one of the fastest growing technology solutions providers in the nation and Adams has been with the company since 2007, shortly after its founding. During the latest Executive Spotlight interview, Adams […] More

The Department of Defense has awarded Penguin Computing two contracts worth $68 million in combined value for the TrueHPC supercomputer in support of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program. Penguin said Tuesday the TrueHPC systems, equipped with NVIDIA graphics processing units and AMD processors, provide more than 365,000 cores, over 775 terabytes of memory and […] More

The Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has launched the initial phase of a new supercomputer, dubbed Perlmutter, designed to support U.S. scientific research and discoveries in areas such as artificial intelligence, data science, climate change, semiconductors, clean energy technologies and advanced computing. Perlmutter is […] More