Tag Archives: Big Data

As the leader in exclusive peer networking events, virtual events and media in the government contracting (GovCon) sector, Executive Mosaic continues to expand its platform with the launch of ArchIntel Events. On October 22nd, ArchIntel Events will host the ArchIntel - AI in Competitive Intelligence Forum as its first virtual event featuring August Jackson, senior director of Marketing and Competitive Intelligence for Deltek, as the keynote speaker. 

Artificial intelligence-based technology developer Arcarithm has secured a contract from the Missile Defense Agency to update data mining and management tools designed for digital simulation of missile defense systems.

Palantir, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based big data analytics firm, is collaborating with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help analyze large sets of health data to understand the spread of the new coronavirus, FedScoop reported Thursday.

The U.S. Air Force has posted a request for information on the development of an integrated big data platform designed to support USAF operations.

Microsoft has recognized ECS for the latter’s achievements in data science, big data, advanced analytics and business intelligence.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for leading the U.S. Army’s overall strategy and modernization efforts to implement emerging technologies for the service branch.

Chitra Raghu, director for federal health and safety at ECS, has said that agencies must analyze data collection and storage methods before implementing data management capabilities such as external data lakes and microservice apps.

Joe Quaglia, president of the Americas at Tech Data (Nasdaq: TECD), told GCN in an interview published Thursday the company’s proposed acquisition of software and cloud technology aggregator DLT Solutions provides an opportunity for Tech Data to capture a share of the federal public sector market.

The U.S. Cyber Command has created a Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture strategy aimed at establishing common firing systems, joint situational awareness platforms, a sensor network and a persistent cyber training environment, Fifth Domain reported Sunday.

Blockchain firm Constellation Network has secured a contract to help the U.S. Air Force provide interoperability capability between legacy systems and newer data technologies.

Snowflake has partnered with Microsoft to market a secure cloud-based database platform, which will enable users to collect and analyze big data, through Azure Government.

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has released a tool designed to analyze huge amounts of data for research efforts aimed at helping clinicians improve patient care and medical decisions.

Booz Allen Hamilton executives wrote in an article published Thursday on The New England Journal of Medicine that federal health care agencies should leverage data science tools and lessons from the intelligence community to optimize big data in order to improve care quality and reduce costs. Steve Escaravage, a senior vice president and head of Booz Allen’s digital, analytics and strategy practice, co-wrote the piece with Kevin Vigilante, an executive VP and a health business leader at the company; and Mike McConnell, a senior executive adviser at Booz Allen.

A new report by Thales says 98 percent of U.S. federal government respondents said they are using sensitive data with digitally transformative technologies such as cloud, internet of things, big data and blockchain. The 2019 Thales Data Threat Report – Federal Edition showed that less than a third of the respondents are adopting data encryption within those tech environments, the company said Wednesday.

NCI Information Systems announced a strategic partnership with Tanjo, Inc. on Tuesday. NCI will leverage Tanjo’s proprietary machine learning technology to combine new data analytics methods with its artificial intelligence platform Shai (Scaling Humans with Artificial Intelligence) to deliver real-time insights and actionable intelligence to federal customers.