Viktar Zherdetski, chief technology officer at Anika Systems, said that as government customers get more comfortable with the use of automation systems, they are seeing new opportunities how they can automate routine tasks, FedScoop reported Friday. Agency customers have started “seeing new opportunities like how they can automate their routine processes, day-to-day operations into something […] More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded lifecycle services provider Nika a $39 million task order to help operate and maintain military medical treatment facilities globally. Services will help the Defense Health Agency Facilities Enterprise contribute to the Department of Defense’s peacetime and wartime medical missions, the Rockville, Maryland-headquartered company said Thursday. The contractor […] More

The Air Force Medical Support Agency has awarded Nika a contract for engineering operations, systems and project management support services at 73 AFMSA facilities worldwide. Nika said Thursday it will work with the agency to plan, develop and execute operations and maintenance-funded construction projects in conjunction with medical repair and sustainment efforts. Nika CEO Kabir Chaudhary said the company aims to […] More

NIKA has received a $1.1 million contract to store, analyze and evaluate data related to the U.S. Army Medical Command’s energy consumption and conservation efforts. The company will provide data modeling and analysis reports for Medcom’s energy and water consumption data across more than 30 Army medical facilities, NIKA said Tuesday. NIKA’s team will develop a […] More

Architecture and engineering firm NIKA has been awarded a $1 million contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs to design a new outpatient clinic in Riverview, Florida for the VA. Hokanson Companies will lead the project scheduled for completion by 2018 and Doster Construction Company will be responsible for construction aspects for the 50,000-square-foot South Hillsborough outpatient […] More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Nika a four-year, $10 million to provide architect-engineer support representative services during the construction of the future Weed Army Community Hospital in Fort Irwin, California. Nika will provide multidisciplinary personnel and full-time on-site representatives such as mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, cost estimators, commissioning managers and master schedulers as the company oversees major construction work on […] More

CIO-SP4, officially known as the Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 4, is a government-wide acquisition contract vehicle administered by the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC). At its core, it simplifies the process by which federal agencies can access a wide array of IT solutions.   The contract vehicle offers […] More

Twelve companies have been awarded spots on a potential five-year, $50M blank purchase agreement to help the  U.S. Patent and Trademark Office modernize business processes with the use of artificial intelligence and other automation tools, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday.

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UiPath has partnered with Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit technology education organization Byte Back to offer robotic process automation training and identify RPA-related job opportunities in both the public and private sectors.

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A spacecraft that Lockheed Martin built for NASA’s Mars exploration mission landed Monday on the red planet’s surface. The InSight Mars Lander made its descent on Elysium Planitia in the planet’s equatorial region and transmitted a tone through its X-band small deep space transponder seven minutes after the spacecraft’s landing, Lockheed said Monday. The spacecraft […] More

General Dynamics’ information technology business held its third annual Cyber Hackathon on July 11 and 12 sponsored by Amazon Web Services and Splunk. This year’s collaborative training exercise, led by GDIT’s Cyber, Cloud and Data & Analytics Communities of Interest, focused on the use of artificial intelligence and machine-learning in the cyber domain, GDIT said […] More

Jeff Sorenson, AT Kearney president of the public sector and defense services segment, has said President-elect Donald Trump’s proposals could lead to an increase in ship construction and research employment, SAT PR News reported Friday. Monika Donimirska writes Sorenson said there will be a rise in demand for shipbuilding and that ships and aircraft will serve as […] More