Lockheed Martin’s new $16.5 million engineering facility in Huntsville, Alabama, has officially opened. Lockheed said Tuesday that the Missile System Integration Lab will be used in the development and systems integration of the Next Generation Interceptor for the Missile Defense Agency.

Northrop Grumman will make a $200 million investment in the construction of a new facility in Waynesboro, Virginia, that will focus on manufacturing and testing advanced electronics. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday announced Northrop’s plan, which is expected to create more than 300 jobs in the city over the next five years.

Google has released a paper that offers policy recommendations for governments, industry and civil society to deliver the benefits of artificial intelligence to a wide range of people. The AI Opportunity Agenda provides policymakers, civil society and companies with a blueprint for investing in AI infrastructure and advancing innovation, building an AI-ready workforce and promoting AI accessibility and adoption, Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google and Alphabet, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday.

Civilian agencies and Department of Defense services can now enter into agreements with TechFlow for the installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure after the energy technology provider was given a success memorandum by the Defense Innovation Unit for its EV technology. TechFlow said Tuesday it had worked with the DIU for years to prototype the EV charging tech, during which time it was deployed at multiple DOD sites and evaluated.

The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory have selected SambaNova Systems to provide its data analytics and artificial intelligence software suite to expand LANL's large language models and general AI technologies. Under the multi-year partnership, LANL will deploy SambaNova DataScale and SambaNova Suite to advance AI workloads supporting national security, science, technology and engineering projects across the laboratory, the company said Tuesday.

Puneet Mehta, formerly senior director at Peraton, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton as chief technologist. His professional experience encompasses large-scale enterprise information technology service sales and operations, coupled with the management of expansive and high-visibility IT initiatives.

Puneet Mehta, formerly senior director at Peraton, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton as chief technologist. His professional experience encompasses large-scale enterprise information technology service sales and operations, coupled with the management of expansive and high-visibility IT initiatives.

Puneet Mehta, formerly senior director at Peraton, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton as chief technologist. His professional experience encompasses large-scale enterprise information technology service sales and operations, coupled with the management of expansive and high-visibility IT initiatives.

CGI's government-focused business arm will perform advanced data integration services over a five-year period to support U.S. Strategic Command operations. CGI Federal was awarded a contract for the development and maintenance of hardware, systems and software comprising the Global Data Integration environment of STRATCOM.

Carahsoft Technology will distribute to its government clients a platform designed by OffSec to educate security professionals in identifying and addressing cyberattacks. Federal agencies can procure the cyberskills training platform through reseller partners and the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement, National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance and OMNIA Partners contracts, Carahsoft said Tuesday.

IBM has created a toolkit designed to help businesses deploy and monitor trustworthy generative artificial intelligence technologies. The tech giant revealed Tuesday that it will launch the watsonx.governance software early next month to aid organizations in complying with future safety and transparency AI regulations within and outside the U.S.

Divergent Technologies has closed its Series D equity financing, totaling $230 million. Divergent said Monday that Hexagon AB invested $100 million and led the capital raising round, which included new and existing institutional and family office investors.