Tag Archives: Data Analytics

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is soliciting ideas for how interested vendors can update and maintain a data analytics technology in the intelligence community's Commercial Cloud Service and Unclassified C2S environments, according to a request for information notice posted Tuesday.

The U.S. Army plans to release later this month an opportunity for small businesses to propose platforms that could help identify, develop and deploy “emerging technology leaders" across the service using machine learning and data science, Nextgov reported Tuesday.

T-Rex Solutions has achieved a Microsoft "Silver" competency level in recognition of the Greenbelt, Maryland-based information technology company's ability to respond to customers' data analytics and application development needs through Microsoft's enterprise platform. "We look forward to expanding our Microsoft services to better assist our customers in meeting their mission critical objectives," said Seth Moore, CEO at T-Rex and a Wash100 awardee.

Kevin Zhang, a 19-year ICF veteran, has been appointed vice president of public health and data analytics at Rockville, Maryland-based consulting firm DSFederal. Zhang previously served as senior director of health informatics at ICF and oversaw disease surveillance projects.

Amazon Web Services and OmniSci have partnered to apply the former's new computing product to the latter's data analytics platform used by industry and government customers. AWS said Monday its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2 P4d instances bring additional graphics processing unit performance suitable for complex ML models and accelerate ML training by three times.

Lloyd Howell, chief financial officer and treasurer at Booz Allen Hamilton, said he believes information technology modernization efforts within the federal government will continue and grow over time, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.

Perspecta has been awarded multiple classified programs, with a collective value of more than $519 million, to provide mission support to U.S. government customers. "For more than four decades, we have been partnering with Intelligence Community customers to innovate highly technical solutions that solve some of the nation's most complex problems,” said Damian DiPippa, senior vice president and general manager of Perspecta's intelligence group.

L3Harris Technologies has received a contract from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to help prototype artificial intelligence and machine learning systems that will process large volumes of data from airborne and space-based assets.

Guidehouse has secured a potential five-year, $15.7M contract from Washington Headquarters Services to help the Department of Defense's deputy chief financial officer perform audits and analyze data.

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions has secured a prototyping contract from the Department of Defense's innovation arm to develop an analytics technology intended to help users examine cybersecurity threat data.

Mark Forman, vice president of digital government strategy at Science Applications International Corp., said that government agencies should adopt digital transformation techniques and tools to scale supply chains in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other future crises.

U.S. Special Operations Command and its partnership with the DefenseWerx nonprofit organization will jointly host a four-day virtual event to inform companies about an upcoming project to develop a system for data collection and analysis.

Laura Schweitzer, a 24-year veteran of PwC, has been appointed director of the data and analytics practice at Herndon, Va.-based health information technology contractor B3 Group.

HawkEye 360 has introduced a service offering designed to help customers gain signal awareness across large regions with the use of radio frequency monitoring technology. The Regional Awareness Subscription service uses HawkEye 360's RFGeo platform to support radio signal identification, analysis and monitoring activities, the company said Tuesday.

HawkEye 360 has finished environmental testing activities for a new cluster of radio frequency-based geospatial intelligence satellites slated to launch later this year.