Paul Dillahay, president and CEO of NCI Information Systems, Inc. (NCI), and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz to discuss the company’s recent $807 million GSA DIGIT (Digital Innovation for GSA Infrastructure Technologies) task order win. “Our artificial intelligence (AI) solutions have been adopted by our industry and federal customers, which has set us up for a very strong 2021," said Dillahay.
Read More »Octo Wins Spot on Army Visual Augmentation System Contract; Mehul Sanghani Quoted
Octo has partnered with QinetiQ on the RS3 92 Situational Awareness and Augmented Reality Technologies contract to deliver machine learning (ML) and deep learning capabilities in support of the U.S. Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System program (IVAS). “Winning contracts like IVAS is part of our focus on emerging technologies as a means of helping the government leverage these newly available solutions to maximize mission effectiveness,” said Mehul Sanghani, CEO of Octo.
Read More »Steve Orrin, Cameron Chehreh: Agencies Should Adopt Risk-Based Security to Protect 5G-Enabled Architecture
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 Monday on Nextgov that a 5G-enabled architecture requires government agencies to implement a risk-based approach to security that takes into consideration the whole data lifecycle.
Read More »NetApp’s Seth Cutler: Agencies Need to Understand AI Trends to Prepare for Evolving Security Threats
Seth Cutler, chief information security officer of data storage and management company NetApp, has said that agencies should continuously update and retrain artificial intelligence models to detect, prevent and respond to cyber threats.
Read More »GrammaTech to Develop AI Tool for Mathematical Model Analysis Under DARPA Program
GrammaTech has received a contract of an undisclosed value from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for studying and prototyping an artificial intelligence-powered tool under DARPA's AI Exploration program. The company said Thursday it is building the AI-based ReMath program to automate the analysis of mathematical models from binary applications within embedded software and cyber physical systems.
Read More »Robot Dog, Small Drone Map Indoor Threats in Rafael’s Tech Demo
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems combined a small unmanned aerial system and a Ghost Robotics-built robot dog to map and identify indoor threats using optical scanning and artificial intelligence for a tech demonstration held in December, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.
Read More »GSA Launches AI/ML Market Survey
The General Services Administration has issued a request for information to find vendors that offer artificial intelligence and machine learning products or services with potential government applications.
Read More »Eric Frahm: DIU, USAF Aim to Overcome Pilot Training Limitations With Commercial Tech
Eric Frahm, a program manager at the Defense Innovation Unit, has said modern technology could help the U.S. Air Force to address learning, data and scalability limitations in the service branch's Joint Immersive Training System, GCN reported Wednesday.
Read More »Deloitte: Machine Learning Ops, Zero Trust Among Government Tech Trends to Watch in 2021
A new Deloitte report has identified nine technology trends that are likely to cause disruption for government agencies over the next 12 to 18 months. The company's annual report Tech Trends 2021: A Government Perspective scored each trend based on its relevance to agencies and the government’s readiness to implement such trends and showed that machine learning operations or MLOps, revitalization of core assets, zero trust approaches and a reboot of the digital workplace were considered the most relevant to agencies.
Read More »Northrop Invests in AI-Based Radio Transceiver Developer Deepwave Digital
Northrop Grumman has made an investment in Deepwave Digital and partnered with the company to advance research-and-development work on artificial intelligence to enhance communications processing capability.
Read More »NVIDIA’s Anthony Robbins: Gov’t, Industry Should Align Priorities for AI Dev’t, Scaling
Anthony Robbins, vice president of NVIDIA's federal segment and a three-time Wash100 Award recipient, has said that industry must help the government quicken the pace of artificial intelligence development and scaling.
Read More »Executive Spotlight: Bruce Caswell, Maximus President & CEO
Bruce Caswell, president and chief executive officer of Maximus, and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding how the company has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as enhancing workforce support, developing new technologies and supporting employment services. Additionally, Caswell discussed investments in new technologies, as well as where Maximus will head in 2021.
Read More »Army Seeks Industry Input to Automate Military Warehouse Operations
The U.S. Army has issued a request for information on how to transform an existing supply support activity warehouse at Fort Hood, Texas, into a state-of-the-art facility with automated and robotic systems. The service branch said Monday it envisions a model SSA that uses modern technology such as artificial intelligence to help accelerate supply chain processes during wartime, garrison and field missions.
Read More »Cloudera Government Solutions’ Henry Sowell: Automated Tools Could Help Agencies Glean Insights From Streaming Data
Henry Sowell, chief information officer for Cloudera Government Solutions, wrote in a guest piece published Wednesday on Nextgov that agencies seeking to optimize streaming data for decision-making should adopt a data platform that could help analyze large volumes of data in real time using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Read More »Novetta’s Kevin Heald on Leveraging Cloud to Accelerate Modernization Timeframe
Kevin Heald, vice president of information exploitation at Novetta, has said the company is working to address customer challenges within six to 12 months to demonstrate capacities to expand into bigger programs, SiliconANGLE reported Wednesday.
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