CIO-SP4, officially known as the Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 4, is a government-wide acquisition contract vehicle administered by the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC). At its core, it simplifies the process by which federal agencies can access a wide array of IT solutions.   The contract vehicle offers […] More

Enlightenment Capital, a government market investment firm, announced investing in Summit Technology Group, a key federal software partner, though the terms and amount of the investment were undisclosed. Devin Talbott, founder and managing partner of Enlightenment, said in a statement Thursday that STG will serve as the foundation for Enlightenment’s government and regulatory software solutions platform.

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Executive Mosaic is proud to announce the selection of U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, the newly-appointed director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, as a recipient of the Wash100 Award for 2024 for his dedication to ensuring the delivery of actionable intelligence to those who need it and for his determination to build up DIA as a world-class intelligence agency. This year marks the first time Kruse has won the prestigious award.

The Popular Vote Competition of the 2024 Wash100 Award runs through April 30, 2024. Click here to vote for Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse as one of your favorite GovCon industry leaders!

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Carahsoft Technology has closed an agreement with Australian artificial intelligence firm Trellis Data to distribute the latter’s Secure Chat suite to government agencies. Michael Adams, sales director at Carahsoft, said Thursday the company is “pleased to add Trellis Data’s Secure Chat and Speech solutions to Carahsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning portfolio.”

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CAE has selected Jason Goodfriend to assume the role of interim group president of its Defense & Security business unit. He will succeed Daniel Gelston, who will stay with the company through May 2024 to support the transition, CAE announced from its Montreal, Quebec headquarters on Thursday.

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Accenture Federal Services and Google Public Sector have unveiled a new center of excellence that seeks to help federal agencies improve citizen experience while managing sensitive and classified workloads using data management platforms and generative artificial intelligence technologies. The Data and AI Center of Excellence will provide agency clients with access to Google Cloud's AI-based code generation tools, Vertex AI platform, language models, specialized data and AI experts and AI-optimized infrastructure, the companies said in a joint release published Thursday.

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Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson delivered a 2024 Wash100 Award to Andy Green, an executive vice president of HII and president of the HII Mission Technologies division, during a recent visit to HII. Visit Wash100.com to cast your votes for Andy Green as your favorite 2024 Wash100 Award winner! 

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Jacobs Solutions has secured a potential five-year, $570.5 million contract to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency repair and restore disaster-damaged, publicly-owned facilities in the West Zone regions. The company said it will partner with CDM Smith to provide site inspection, field support, technical evaluation and cost analysis services to FEMA under the Public Assistance Technical Assistance Contract V contract vehicle.

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Palantir Technologies has selected Oracle's distributed cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure to host its suite of AI and decision acceleration platforms to provide joint offerings to government and commercial sectors. Under the agreement, Palantir will migrate its Foundry workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and deploy its Gotham and AI Platforms via Oracle's distributed cloud environments to defense and intelligence customers, the companies said in a joint statement published Thursday.

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Deltek has completed a readiness assessment for its cloud-based enterprise resource planning offering under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Deltek said Thursday its Costpoint GovCon Cloud Moderate platform has received the FedRAMP Ready designation in the moderate baseline following a comprehensive evaluation.

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Great Mills, Maryland-based defense contractor J.F. Taylor has acquired software company Clear Creek Applied Technologies as part of a push to expand its portfolio of training systems and mission support platforms for the Department of Defense and its international partners. CCAT is a Dayton, Ohio-based company that has been developing and delivering mission-critical software applications and test and evaluation services to the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and foreign military partners for nearly two decades, J.F. Taylor said Monday.

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Doug Cossa of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is among the Chief Information Officers (CIO) handpicked by the Potomac Officers Club (POC) to speak at the 5th Annual CIO Summit. He is set to discuss how public and private sectors can leverage emerging technologies to initiate new strategies and navigate the changing digital landscape.   […] More