BlueHalo, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners, has agreed to buy Rockville Maryland-based Intelligent Automation Inc. in a move to incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies into BlueHalo’s national security platform. IAI employs more than 75 professionals who are PhD holders, supports multiple customers at the Department of Department and productizes technology via […] More

Steampunk has received a five-year, $50M blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office through the Intelligent Automation Innovation Support Services contract vehicle to perform assessment and integration services.

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John Lockwood, former robotic process automation program manager at the Defense Logistics Agency, has joined KPMG’s federal advisory group as director of the professional services firm’s federal intelligent automation practice.

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NewWave Telecom and Technologies has received a five-year, $49M contract to provide intelligent automation and artificial intelligence technologies and related services for federal agencies. The company said Thursday the governmentwide acquisition contract awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services' program support center covers support across several areas such as automation hosting, natural language processing, machine learning, machine vision and supervised learning.

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The Air Force Research Laboratory and Intelligent Automation Inc. have developed and tested a sensor that works to automate the inspection of aircraft inlet and exhaust damage under a $4 million contract. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base said Wednesday the Auto-Scan: Inlet and Exhaust Damage Registration Sensor is designed to characterize, localize and register aircraft damage then transfer the information to […] More

Intelligent Automation has been awarded a $1.2 million contract to carry out research and development work on mobile security for the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate. The award calls for Intelligent Automation to assess several methods in an effort to safeguard operating systems, identity, firmware and other mobile device layers from malicious […] More

A new ServiceNow survey shows that 77 percent of federal government executives say their agencies need to increase use of intelligent automation platforms over the next five years to help address increasing workloads. ServiceNow said Thursday it commissioned research firm Market Connections to conduct an online survey of 150 federal decision-makers in September and found […] More

Marqus Hutchinson, chief technology officer at Intelligent Waves, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about the impact of emerging technologies on the company’s growth as well as how recent partnerships are helping its expansion in the federal market and ensuring the long-term success of the workforce in light of the talent recruitment challenges of today during the latest Executive Spotlight […] More

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

Brillient has secured a potential five-year, $70 million blanket purchase agreement to provide the Internal Revenue Service with robotic process automation capability. The company said Thursday it will also develop and implement artificial intelligence, machine learning, intelligent automation and data analytics under the BPA, which has one base year and four one-year options. The effort […] More

ASI Government has introduced an automation tool developed in partnership with artificial intelligence company Abeyon to help the Internal Revenue Service modernize its acquisition processes. Intelligent Business Automation works to support the agency's Pilot IRS Program by adding telecommunications security language in select federal contracts.

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Aptive Resources has partnered with New York-based automation technology maker Hyperscience to provide integrated machine learning- and artificial intelligence-based document processing tools to key federal customers.

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