Enlighten IT Consulting, a subsidiary of MacAulay-Brown, has started to offer cyber training on a big data platform that was originally developed to help secure Department of Defense networks.

Washington, D.C.-based Enlightenment Capital has raised $250M in capital commitments for its third fund, exceeding the private investment firm’s $200M target. The completion of Fund III will allow the company to continue to carry out its strategy to invest in middle-market firms in the aerospace, defense and government markets, Enlightenment Capital said Thursday.

A MacAulay-Brown subsidiary has received a potential three-year, $15M task order to develop a large-scale cloud environment for the U.S. Army. Enlighten IT Consulting will also offer engineering services to assist in the Army's data analytics and integration activities under the task order awarded through the Army Cloud Computing Enterprise Transition indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Alion Science and Technology said Thursday.

Enlighten IT Consulting has partnered with Amazon Web Services in a push to help federal civilian and defense agencies store, manage and secure information in the GovCloud (US) environment.

Alion Science and Technology‘s Enlighten IT Consulting business and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point have partnered to study the potential use of data analytics in cyber mission planning and decision-making processes. Both parties will aim to create a model for commanders and their staff members to make decisions about …

Representatives of Alion Science and Technology and its Enlighten IT Consulting business will conduct live demonstrations at an upcoming NVIDIA-sponsored artificial intelligence conference in Washington, D.C. MacAulay-Brown said Thursday its parent company Alion serves as a platinum sponsor of the 2018 GPU Technology Conference that will take place from Oct. 22 to 24 and will feature …

Amazon Web Services has approved a MacAulay-Brown susbidiary to provide managed services to government customers of AWS cloud technology. Prior to the approval, Enlighten IT Consulting completed a third-party assessment on its service offerings with involvement of clients who use big data and analytics platforms in GovCloud, MacB said Thursday. …

Enlighten IT Consulting has secured a $40 million task order from the U.S. federal government for continued work on a cloud-based architecture that offers storage and retrieval capacity at a rate of more than one trillion records per second. The company said Tuesday the Big Data Platform is designed to ingest and store data from various …

Enlighten IT Consulting has received a potential $3.3 million contract to help the Defense Department protect data and information networks from insider threats and external cyber vulnerabilities. DoD awarded the Cyberstrike contract in support of the implementation of the Pentagon’s Cyber Strategy that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter approved in April 2015, …

Trowbridge & Trowbridge announced on Tuesday that Alan Thomas Jr., former commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service with the General Services Administration, has joined the company as the executive vice president of special projects. 

Enlighten IT Consulting, an indirect subsidiary of Alion Science and Technology, has received U.S. Air Force recognition for a multi-domain operations data fusion tool.

Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Dave Levy, vice president of federal government at Amazon Web Services, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena. This is his second consecutive Wash100 award.

The U.S. Cyber Command is seeking a contractor to support the development of a Big Data Platform through engineering expertise, analytical development services and software licenses. Cybercom said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday that the BDP will use a scalable cloud computing infrastructure to support packet capture data, data …

Alion Science and Technology has launched artificial intelligence tools designed to aid human-machine teaming in defense and security operations. The company said Friday it will use agile engineering approaches in efforts to help clients implement new AI-based technology platforms. Todd Borkey, chief technology officer at Alion, said the company wants …

 Amazon Web Services hosted a webcast last week about the use of cloud computing technology to support warfighters’ missions on land, at sea and in the air. The webcast, titled “Enabling the Warfighter: Bringing Cloud to the Tactical Edge,” tackled how cloud platforms could help the Defense Department sustain the U.S. military’s technological advantage …