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.  

Lockheed Martin has invested $750K in Canada-based artificial intelligence company DarwinAI to help the latter operationalize a project that seeks to accelerate diagnosis of COVID-19 through chest X-ray scans. Lockheed made the investment in DarwinAI through its Canadian arm and as part of the Industrial Technological Benefits policy.

Kay Sears, vice president and general manager of the military division at Lockheed Martin’s space business and a previous Wash100 awardee, said bringing in nontraditional contractors and partnering with other companies helped Lockheed secure a contract from the Space Development Agency to build satellites for the Transport Layer, SpaceNews reported Monday.

A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has received a potential $2.2B contract modification from General Dynamics’ Electric Boat subsidiary to help build the first two Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines for the U.S. Navy. HII's Newport News Shipbuilding division will construct and deliver six modules for each of the submarines and continue to provide design support under the modification. 

Los Angeles-based Relativity Space has raised $500M in a round of Series D financing led by Tiger Global Management and will use the funds to advance the development of its launch vehicle, 3D printing technologies and other programs. “We are on track to launch our first Terran 1 rocket to orbit next year with existing capital on our balance sheet," said Tim Ellis, co-founder and CEO of Relativity Space.

Steve Orrin, chief technology officer at Intel’s federal arm, and Cameron Chehreh, CTO of Dell Technologies’ federal business, wrote in a joint article published Friday on Nextgov that federal agencies should look at hybrid cloud not as a destination but as an operating model to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence and 5G. 

Accenture’s federal arm will develop a platform to automate Thrift Savings Plan processes, offer electronic signature capabilities and help TSP users access services through phone, email, virtual assistant and other channels under a contract with the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. The Recordkeeping Services Acquisition contract awarded to Accenture Federal Services has a transition period of 18 months and four, three-year option terms.

Sue Gordon, a board member at CACI International and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 William Oliver Baker Award from the Intelligence and National Security Alliance for her three-decade public service.

Elder Granger, a retired U.S. Army major general, has joined Cerner as a member of the company’s board of directors. 

Lt. Gen. John Thompson, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, said the U.S. Space Force expects to award by the end of 2020 a contract for the management of the Space Enterprise Consortium, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.

The U.S. Army plans to release later this month an opportunity for small businesses to propose platforms that could help identify, develop and deploy “emerging technology leaders" across the service using machine learning and data science, Nextgov reported Tuesday.

NASA has used the Hewlett Packard Enterprise-built Aitken supercomputer to carry out simulations on launch environment and booster separation event at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the Artemis manned mission to the moon by 2024. 

A new study by the Aerospace Corp. says the increasing number of satellite-based services and other space capabilities offered by companies presents opportunities for national security agencies to acquire those services, SpaceNews reported Monday.

The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium has entered into the second phase of operation to focus on research projects that seek to identify near-term treatments to help improve patient outcomes within the next six months.

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Battelle, Eastern Research Group and RTI International spots on the fourth iteration of the potential five-year, $50M Scientific, Technical, Research, Engineering and Modeling Support contract.