Scale AI and the Department of Defense's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office have joined forces to establish a framework for testing and evaluating generative artificial intelligence. In a statement Tuesday, Alexandr Wang, founder and CEO of Scale AI, said, “Testing and evaluating generative AI will help the DOD understand the strengths and limitations of the technology, so it can be deployed responsibly.”

The Potomac Officers Club will host the 5th Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 21. Click here to register!

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Scale AI, a provider of training data for artificial intelligence teams, is opening a new office in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, in an effort to boost its presence in the technology industry and expand geospatial work with the government, academia and private sector. The company said Wednesday the new office is expected to generate 215 […] More

True Anomaly, a space security and sustainability start-up, has raised $17 million in a Series A funding round led by Eclipse and will use the capital to test its Jackal autonomous orbital vehicle. The company said Thursday the recent round brings the company’s total funding amount to $30 million and will support the validation of […] More

RegScale has chosen Steven Coles, former Elastic and C3 AI executive, to become the new general manager of its public sector business. Coles will lead services at the software company to ensure its customers have the necessary platforms for complying with government requirements, and to help grow its federal market footprint, RegScale said. At Elastic, […] More

Northrop Grumman has partnered with Scaled Composites to design a new autonomous platform intended to be pitched in an attritable aircraft development effort of the U.S. Air Force, National Defense Magazine reported Friday. Northrop showcased on Sept. 8 Model 437, a stealthy jet with a 3,000-mile range, that is developed for the Skyborg program aimed […] More

A new report from Zscaler has found a 260 percent increase in encryption-based threats during the first nine months of 2020. Zscaler’s threat research team analyzed 6.6B encrypted threats delivered through Secure Sockets Layer channels between January and September and found that health care was the most targeted industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by finance and insurance, manufacturing, government and services sectors.

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Raytheon secured a potential $159M contract to support large-scale, live training exercises for the U.S. Army at the branch’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center located in Hohenfels, Germany, Raytheon announced Tuesday.

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Tony Moraco, CEO of Science Applications International Corp., told The Washington Post in an interview published Sunday the added scale brought by the $2.5B acquisition of Engility allows SAIC to go after larger business opportunities and new markets in the federal government. “This allows us within this market to pursue and deliver on larger-scale contracts, predominantly in the space and intelligence markets, as well as mission assurance and spaceflight,” he said of the transaction.

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George Krivo, CEO of DynCorp International, told Defense News in an interview published Wednesday that the company has begun to look at merger and acquisition opportunities as it aims to increase its scale to approximately $3B to $4B in annual revenue. “In the next six months to a year, you’ll see a whole bunch of […] More

Varioscale has won a $23.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a prototype analysis tool that will work to image minimum size circuit features on a silicon integrated circuit chip. The Defense Department said Wednesday Varioscale will perform work under the Rapid Analysis of Various Emerging Nanoelectrons program at a company facility in San Marcos, California […] More

Pelican BioThermal and Tribalco will offer the new blood transport container Golden Hour Medic based on the former company’s Golden Hour Mobile containers. The smaller-scale Golden Hour Medic features Pelican BioThermal’s packaging technology that works to provide thermal protection of up to 144 hours, the company said Friday. Kevin Lawler, Pelican BioThermal worldwide sales vice president, said the reduced scale of Golden […] More

David Court, a director at McKinsey & Company, believes companies that want to explore the potential business impact of data analytics must undergo a strategic transformation that involves planning, restructuring and frontline development. Court wrote in a piece for McKinsey Quarterly’s January 2015 issue that management teams should optimize the use of new analytics technology and adapt the organization to integrate new processes. […] More