Ira Entis, growth and strategy lead at Accenture’s federal arm, has said that while implementing artificial intelligence could heighten investment returns, a significant amount of productivity gains might vanish due to lack of staff training.

John Goodman, CEO of Accenture Federal Services and three-time Wash100 Award recipient, and Ira Entis, managing director of growth and strategy at AFS, discussed how the ongoing COVID-19 crisis drives public sector innovation as the world continues to adapt to the pandemic in an opinion piece published by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ira Entis, managing director of strategic solutions and emerging technologies at Accenture's federal services business, has said agencies should increase efforts to apply artificial intelligence to their business operations to address growing citizen expectations. 

Rod Fontecilla, formerly senior vice president and chief technology officer at Altamira Technologies, has been appointed chief innovation officer and chief data scientist at Dovel Technologies.

Jason Kalirai, formerly project scientist and strategic development lead at the Space Telescope Science Institute, has joined Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as mission area executive for civil space programs. APL said Thursday Kalirai is responsible for the lab’s work on NASA and international space missions that include exploration, research, technology development and …

IBM will offer sustainability researchers and scientists access to the company’s World Community Grid supercomputing platform through an estimated $60 million in computing power to support scientific research. The company will accept project proposals from interested parties studying issues related to climate change and provide the selected researchers access to computing power donated by volunteers, IBM said Tuesday. This …

Police authorities in India have announced plans to extend the detention of a computer scientist arrested earlier who pointed to security flaws in an electronic voting system. A metropolitan court magistrate in Mumbai denied a motion to to release Hari Prasad on bail prior to Aug. 28. Prasad was arrested …

Defense contractors are seeing change on a variety of fronts. Topping the list is a shift from combat support in the Middle East to longer-term sustainment solutions. That’s no easy task given the current slew of challenges: an increase in oversight and fixed price competitions, plus a decrease in smaller …

Accenture's federal services business has been awarded a five-year, $50 million blanket purchase agreement by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to operate, maintain and modernize the agency’s financial management systems (FMS) for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO). “We are proud to support USPTO," said Rasha Nahas, managing director and the U.S. Department of Commerce lead for Accenture Federal Services.

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research partnered with Southwest Research Institute in Texas to utilize artificial intelligence, machine learning and high-performance computing to detect compounds that could target the novel coronavirus, Nextgov reported Thursday.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is using high-performance computing to address the world’s need for a COVID-19 vaccine.

L3Harris Technologies has earmarked $2M in funds to support COVID-19 relief and recovery initiatives worldwide.

Melvin Greer, chief data scientist of Intel, said that agencies need to improve readiness at the operational, technological and organizational levels to utilize artificial intelligence as a strategic asset.

PAE has secured a potential $75.2M contract to support the Department of Homeland Security‘s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office in efforts to detect potential biological threats. The company said Monday its team of scientists will work in laboratories equipped with frontline early warning systems built to monitor airborne attacks as part of …

Melvin Greer, chief data scientist for Intel‘s public sector in the Americas, will deliver a keynote address at the Telecom Exchange NYC 2018 event to be hosted by Jaymie Scotto & Associates and slated to take place June 20 in Hoboken, New Jersey. He plans to discuss the opportunities and challenges of network platforms based …