Ron Sugar and Jim Moffatt, respectively former CEOs at Northrop Grumman and Deloitte Consulting, have joined the advisory board of cognitive computing analytics company SparkCognition.

Robert Work, a former deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and two-time Wash100 winner, has joined the advisory board of cognitive computing analytics firm SparkCognition.

Boeing and SparkCognition intend to form a new joint venture that will develop software platforms designed to integrate autonomous cargo vehicles and other unmanned aircraft systems into the global airspace. Amir Husain, founder and CEO of SparkCognition, will serve as CEO of Austin, Texas-based SkyGrid that will help clients perform …

SparkCognition will leverage an Hewlett Packard Enterprise-made rugged, converged system in an aim to boost the performance of the former’s industrial artificial intelligence platform, under a partnership between the two firms. SparkCognition said Wednesday its SparkPredict platform will perform at full potential when operating with HPE’s Edgeline Converged Edge System. SparkPredict …

Sridhar Sudarsan, formerly chief technology officer of Watson platform and partnerships at IBM, has been appointed to the same role at SparkCognition. Sudarsan will oversee SparkCognition’s technical and product strategy in collaboration with Bruce Porter, the firm’s chief science officer, and other industry and artificial intelligence experts, the company said Tuesday. …

SparkCognition has received a contract from the Defense Department‘s innovation office to provide artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to support the U.S. Air Force‘s planning, programming, budgeting and execution system. The company said Thursday it will carry out the first stage of Project Quantum to help quantitatively augment decision-making for senior officials …

The venture businesses of Boeing and Verizon have invested in SparkCognition to help the Austin, Texas-based company further develop information technology applications through artificial intelligence and machine learning methods. Boeing said Monday its ventures arm HorizonX joined an investment group, led by Verizon Ventures, to support a $32 million initial funding round for SparkCognition. SparkCognition develops …

A Zion Market Research report forecasts that artificial intelligence spending in the global military sector will reach $16.3B by 2026, with a compound annual growth rate of 14.5 percent over the next seven years.

The Center for a New American Security has formed a task force to study how the U.S. government can address national security risks from artificial intelligence. CNAS said Thursday Robert Work, former deputy secretary at the Defense Department, will co-chair the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security alongside Andrew Moore, dean …