A joint venture between Octo and Metric5 won a five-year, $63 million contract to develop information technology applications for the Department of the Treasury's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Octo said Tuesday it will help TTB manage the bureau's IT platforms, server and database, configure apps and analyze business processes under the DevOps - Software Development Services contract.

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.

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. 

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.

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). 

SpaceX and NASA expect to send the Crew Dragon spacecraft with four astronauts for the first operational crew rotation flight to the International Space Station no earlier than Oct. 23.

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.

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.

Octo Consulting Group announced on Tuesday that Harold Poston, formerly of Booz Allen Hamilton, has joined the company as vice president of Department of Defense accounts to help grow Octo’s DoD business. 

NASA and Northrop Grumman have rescheduled the launch date of a new scientific satellite into low Earth orbit for Oct. 10 after both parties completed a joint review into technical issues concerning a rocket sensor.

Leslie Siddeley, former vice president of Brillient’s health solutions arm, has been appointed senior director for health growth at Octo Consulting, FedHealthIT reported Monday.

Octo Consulting has created a proof of concept for the use of blockchain to help the Department of Health and Human Services secure log transactions.

Octo Consulting has secured a five-year, $11M contract for the operation and maintenance of an enterprise software program used by the U.S. Army to organize equipment records and keep track of military assets.

The Capability Maturity Model Integration Institute has appraised Octo Consulting at level four in recognition of the company's compliance with program management standards. The appraisal honors Octo's efforts to manage projects for continuous development and alignment with business goals, the company said Tuesday.

Octo Consulting has been selected to provide Agile software engineering services to help U.S. Air Force's Kessel Run Experimentation Laboratory transform legacy information technology applications.