Gary Newgaard, vice president of public sector at Pure Storage, wrote in an article published Tuesday on FedTech Magazine how artificial intelligence and big data could help government agencies carry out their missions by gleaning insights from large data volumes.  

A team comprised of Unissant, Centrifuge and Rock Elm has won a potential $47.2M contract to help the U.S. Customs and Border Protection manage the agency's data and metadata assets.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 31, 2020 — BAE Systems will design a prototype for the U.S. Marine Corps' planned warfighting center in Quantico, Va., under a potential $19M contract, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 14.

Artificial intelligence-based technology developer Arcarithm has secured a contract from the Missile Defense Agency to update data mining and management tools designed for digital simulation of missile defense systems.

The U.S. Air Force has posted a request for information on the development of an integrated big data platform designed to support USAF operations.

The U.S. Cyber Command has created a Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture strategy aimed at establishing common firing systems, joint situational awareness platforms, a sensor network and a persistent cyber training environment, Fifth Domain reported Sunday.

Booz Allen Hamilton and Databricks have forged an alliance to help federal customers implement big data and analytics technology platforms on premises and in cloud or hybid environments.

Leidos has developed an artificial intelligence-based analytics tool that works to help users analyze big data from multiple sources, including social media, software and systems, National Defense Magazine reported Thursday.

Booz Allen Hamilton executives wrote in an article published Thursday on The New England Journal of Medicine that federal health care agencies should leverage data science tools and lessons from the intelligence community to optimize big data in order to improve care quality and reduce costs. Steve Escaravage, a senior vice president and head of Booz Allen’s digital, analytics and strategy practice, co-wrote the piece with Kevin Vigilante, an executive VP and a health business leader at the company; and Mike McConnell, a senior executive adviser at Booz Allen.

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.

Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Cloudera, has said state and local government agencies should have strategies in place to leverage big data in order to facilitate the delivery of citizen services.

Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Tiffanny Gates, president and CEO of Novetta, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for her efforts to increase the company’s workforce by exploring cloud-based platforms, big data and information technology. This marks her first Wash100 award.