Applied Information Sciences has earned an advanced specialization from Microsoft for its efforts to deliver tailored analytics tools in Azure to customers in support of their cloud migration and digital transformation initiatives. AIS said Friday the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization gives the company access to end-customer funding and resources from Microsoft and early insights […] More

Wade Allen, vice president of Defense for Applied Information Sciences, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the work that AIS does to ensure the long-term success of its workforce as well as the impact that emerging technologies are having on the company’s business and its company culture to drive growth in the federal sector during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. […] More

Applied Information Sciences has appointed Letitia "Tish" Long, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, to the company’s board of directors. Long is a leader in the defense and national intelligence community and will bring decades of federal experience to AIS.

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Two quantum specialists at Booz Allen Hamilton have listed computing, sensing and communications as possible applications of the emerging computing technology. Jordan Kenyon, a Booz Allen senior lead scientist, and JD Dulny, firmwide lead for quantum information sciences, wrote in a Nextgov guest piece published Thursday the quantum information sciences discipline offers multiple approaches to […] More

Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Vencore, has said the company’s applied research work would help differentiate Perspecta from other government information technology services contractors, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Curtis will become CEO of Perspecta that will operate as a publicly traded company under the ticker symbol “PRSP” once DXC Technology completes by […] More

Applied Information Sciences was granted advanced specializations in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on Microsoft Azure and DevOps with GitHub on Microsoft Azure following a  third-party audit. AIS said Friday it is now eligible for customer project funding and resources from Microsoft and has access to product previews and insights. With the new advanced specializations, […] More

Octo has appointed Letitia “Tish” Long, a former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, to the company's board of directors. Long's appointment will place greater focus on the Intelligence Community (IC) as Octo's core customer. “Having Long on our Board of Directors is a massive boon to our ability to understand and support the Intelligence Community,” said Mehul Sanghani, CEO of Octo. 

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Donna Gregg, former mission area executive for cyber operations at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has moved into a new role as head of the lab’s asymmetric operations sector. Gregg will be responsible for overseeing APL’s work in cyber operations, homeland protection and special operations, the lab said Friday. She assumes the role previously held by 40-year […] More

Viveca Pavon-Harr has taken on the role of chief data scientist at Accenture Federal Services. Pavon-Harr says on LinkedIn that she will also continue to concurrently serve as director of the Applied Intelligence Discovery Lab at AFS.

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Zhouyan Liu is fixated on ideas of data, privacy, property and technology. His work as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley zeroes in on how burgeoning artificial intelligence systems impact the aforementioned concepts in both the U.S. and abroad, in his home country of China. Liu has also recently begun work as part […] More

Christopher Worley, vice president of DoD Earth Intelligence Programs for Maxar, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s recent growth initiatives as well as the critical importance of its culture in such a competitive market that is constantly improving how we think about the greater innovation challenges of today during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You can read […] More

Rockville, Maryland-based small business Caelum Research has won a $96 million hybrid contract to provide the U.S. Army with information technology support services. The contractor will conduct work through Jan. 8, 2027, and performance locations will be determined based on future IT support task orders, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Financing will also be […] More