Jim Ford, a 20-year U.S. Navy intelligence officer veteran and former director at Microsoft‘s federal business, has been appointed to serve in the dual role of president and chief strategy officer at Semantic AI. The newly hired executive will head functions related to business development, product strategy, industry offerings, delivery and customer experience, Semantic AI said Thursday. Ford brings […] More

Semantic AI has hired Sally Kenyon Grant, Neal Harper and Thomas Jurewicz to take leadership roles to support the firm’s efforts to drive growth in the cyber, cloud and government market areas.

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Semantic AI and Bluescape’s multi-domain operation technologies have entered the final round of the U.S. Air Force’s competition, the AFWERX Fusion Xperience 2019 event, which will be held on July 23 to 24 in Las Vegas, Nev.

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Software developer Semantic AI has introduced its Cortex Enterprise Intelligence Platform designed to visualize structured and unstructured data sources to support on-premises and cloud operations.

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Candice Ling, federal sector leader at Microsoft, was inducted into Executive Mosaic's 2024 roster of Wash100 awardees for driving innovation in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. 2024 marks Ling’s debut on Executive Mosaic's annual selection of 100 government and government contracting industry leaders.

Vote for Ling as one of your favorite awardees at Wash100.com. This year's popular vote competition runs through April 30, so cast your 10 votes now!

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Microsoft plans to launch new artificial intelligence capabilities across its cloud environments in the next few months to help government clients meet their requirements and support mission-critical workloads. Candice Ling, vice president of strategic missions and technologies at Microsoft Federal, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that the company intends to introduce its Azure OpenAI Service in Azure Government during the first quarter of 2024.

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Microsoft Azure Government users can now access generative artificial intelligence capabilities designed to support a range of use cases, from enhancing productivity to generating data-driven insights to meet mission needs. The Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service uses a new architecture that provides government agencies with secure access to large language models in Azure Government’s commercial environment, […] More

ICF has finalized its acquisition of public sector-serving health technology company SemanticBits, adding to the digital services and consulting firm’s health information technology capabilities. With the completion of the transaction, ICF now expects to see changes appear on its second quarter financial results when they go live in August, the Fairfax, Virginia-based consultancy said Thursday. […] More

Charles River Analytics looks to help the Department of Defense enhance organizational effectiveness through a new analytical technology that employs artificial intelligence to generate insights from free-form text. CRA said Tuesday its new sentiment analysis technique named the Jargon Association for Language Analysis in Domains harnesses natural language processing and best practices in human-machine interface […] More

BAE Systems has launched a suite of artificial intelligence tools on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace for GovCloud (US) to support the analysis of imagery, signals and data, and to enable rapid hosting of BAE-made additional capabilities.

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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories unit a $14.8M contract to prototype a cloud-based forensic tool designed to automatically detect and segregate disinformation campaigns.

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SRI International has won a potential four-year, $11M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an automated technology to detect fake texts, video, images or audio.

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