IBM subsidiary Octo will collaborate with Axle Informatics, T-Rex and Unissant under a four-year, $64.7 million information technology support order from the National Cancer Institute. The industry team will help the NCI’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology to engineer infrastructure and manage technical operations, Octo said Tuesday. NCI awarded the order through a blanket […] More

Octo has opened the doors of its newly expanded oLabs research and development center to the consulting company’s partners and interested parties. On Monday, Octo debuted its new facility, which, at 14,000 square feet, is the most expansive R&D center for federal government work in the DC metro area, the company said. “Using next-gen IT and […] More

Octo has secured a spot on the five-year, $249 million blanket purchase agreement from the Department of Defense to support the test and evaluation efforts of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. The BPA tasks Octo with aiding JAIC T&E endeavors by administering test technology and tools for various AI programs, as well as expanding the DOD’s […] More

Octo has secured a $36 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force’s software development unit modernize information technology systems and run cloud computing workloads. The company and its partner Raft will develop macro-level architectural systems, a multi-region hybrid infrastructure and a cross-cutting architecture for applications and integration under Kessel Run’s Cloud Computing and IT […] More

Reston, Virginia-based information technology provider Octo has won a prototyping contract to develop open source software for U.S. Navy personnel to access and exchange intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data. Octo said Tuesday it will create a prototype of the Alliance data discovery and sharing platform to support ashore and afloat ISR requirements for the Distributed […] More

Octo has partnered with QinetiQ on the RS3 92 Situational Awareness and Augmented Reality Technologies contract to deliver machine learning (ML) and deep learning capabilities in support of the U.S. Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System program (IVAS). “Winning contracts like IVAS is part of our focus on emerging technologies as a means of helping the government leverage these newly available solutions to maximize mission effectiveness,” said Mehul Sanghani, CEO of Octo.

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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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Reston, Virginia-based information technology contractor Octo has merged with software development firm Sevatec in a deal of an undisclosed sum to create a combined entity that will focus on helping federal government customers to address IT modernization goals. Baird and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman served as Sevatec's financial and legal advisers on the transaction, respectively, while Sheppard Mullin acted as Octo's legal adviser.

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Octo Consulting Group has rebranded as “Octo,” after the company completed the acquisition and integration of Connexta, an IT company based in Phoenix. Octo Consulting acquired Connexta in July 2019 to bolster its existing client base in the Intelligence Community (IC) and the Department of Defense (DoD). 

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Octo Consulting and Indica Labs have partnered to launch the online COVID Digital Pathology Repository, a virtual collection of high resolution microscopic COVID-related human tissue images hosted at the National Institutes of Health, Octo announced on Thursday.

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Octo Consulting has appointed Rob Albritton, an award-winning artificial intelligence and machine learning leader, as senior director of the company’s AI Center of Excellence, Octo announced on Tuesday.

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Arlington Capital Partners announced its strategic investment in Octo Consulting Group on Thursday. Octo develops solutions for federal government clients in health care, national security, civilian and defense agencies.

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