Tag Archives: Analytics

Jacobs has acquired The Buffalo Group, a provider of advanced cyber and intelligence solutions. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. "Defending our nation against adversarial threats is growing in complexity. The Buffalo Group's leading cyber and intelligence capabilities further strengthens our suite of national priority solutions across integrated multi-domain environments," said Jacobs chair and CEO Steve Demetriou. 

LexisNexis Risk Solutions has launched the LexisNexis Emailage. The offering is a fraud risk scoring solution that uses email intelligence to provide government agencies with seamless user experience and robust identity assessment and assurance capabilities. “The concept of front-end identity – proving that someone is who they say they are – is foundational to the mission of government, from program eligibility to cybersecurity,” said Monty Faidley, vice president of product and analytics for the government group of LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

Steven Spano, regional vice president for the public sector business at Tableau, told ZDNet in an interview published Sunday that when it comes to data analysis, public sector customers want a variety of options and the freedom to explore and interact with data. 

The U.S. Navy teamed up with Amazon Web Services to migrate its data and analytics to the cloud and Kitty Nix, a senior manager with AWS, said the company recognizes the significance of security when managing the service’s data and analytics, DC Military reported Thursday.

Accenture has launched a platform to help government agencies and health care institutions plan and manage COVID-19 vaccination programs and related communication and distribution efforts.

SAS and RTI International have partnered to integrate analytics software products and research services into an comprehensive offering designed to help government customers extract insights from data to perform complex missions.

The National Institutes of Health plans to award a sole-source contract to Symplur to avail of the latter’s social media analytics tool for the monitoring and analysis of NIH’s official Twitter accounts.

Unanet has updated its enterprise resource planning software offering with new features designed to help government contractors gain business insights and increase operational efficiencies, the company announced Thursday.

Medallia has introduced a set of experience management tools designed to help state and local agencies and educational organizations gain insights into public sentiment.

Reggie Brothers, CEO of NuWave Solutions, said the company primarily focuses on intelligence and defense markets with plans to expand its artificial intelligence, advanced analytics and data management work in federal civilian and commercial sectors.

Descartes Labs has been awarded an Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct to Phase II contract on Wednesday through AFWERX and the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate and Information Directorate to optimize data discovery of collected sensor data and the automation of multi-modal analytical processes. 

Jennifer Chronis, general manager for the Department of Defense market at Amazon Web Services, told SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE in a video interview posted Tuesday that the migration of the U.S. Navy’s enterprise resource planning system to AWS GovCloud has enabled the service to facilitate analytics and improve the decision-making process.

Gary Hix, chief technology officer at Hitachi Vantara Federal, wrote in a GCN article published Friday that information technology leaders at government agencies should consider adopting cloud and other new technologies in addition to virtual private networks and virtual desktop infrastructure to support telework environments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maxar Technologies has been awarded a five-year, $23 million contract by the Department of the Interior to develop an analytics system to probe the behavior of vehicles in multiple domains at scale and in near-real-time for the Department of Homeland Security, the company announced Monday.

Synack, a crowdsourced security platform provider, has secured $52M in a round of Series D financing co-led by B Capital Group and C5 Capital.