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Idaho National Laboratory developed a machine translation-based technology designed to detect malware that mines cryptocurrencies through compromised high-performance computing systems and is seeking to enter into a licensing agreement with a company that can bring the technology to market.

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.

AE Industrial Partners has acquired Linkware, a company that specializes in custom software solutions and government consulting, and Pangiam, a security and travel consulting services provider, to create an integrated travel solutions technology platform, AEI announced Wednesday. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. "Combining Linkware with Pangiam will create a compelling travel and security solutions technology platform with unlimited potential," said Kevin McAleenan.

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.

Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel has invested in and partnered with Deepgram to help bring the latter's speech recognition technology to the government. 

Dave Levy, vice president of federal business at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, said there are three early lessons from the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium and one is the capability of new technology platforms to help researchers expedite their work. "Tools including deep learning and artificial intelligence are reducing time to insight for researchers around the world," Levy wrote in a blog post published Thursday.

Sean McPherson, deep learning scientist at Intel, wrote in an opinion piece published Monday on Federal Times that there are three strategies organizations can use to leverage the capabilities of artificial intelligence and one is encouraging humans to take part in AI model training.

Charles River Analytics has partnered with academic institutions to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency boost the efficiency of machine-learning model development.

Susie Adams, chief technology officer of Microsoft’s federal arm, has said that algorithm-driven deep learning technology can be used in a range of government activities such as predictive maintenance and fraud detection, FedTech reported Wednesday.

An Amazon Web Services blog post published Wednesday examines how the Washington-based Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has facilitated the development of an image similarity platform for national security missions through cloud adoption.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has issued a new report describing how the medical community can apply deep learning to better diagnose eye problems.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 13, 2019 — Anthony Robbins, vice president of NVIDIA‘s (Nasdaq: NVDA) North American public sector business, said the federal government can optimize the potential of artificial intelligence by furthering its efforts in data, computing infrastructure and training, ExecutiveBiz reported April 30. Robbins, a 2019 Wash100 awardee, …

Ensco and DeepSig partnered in an effort to help government customers implement an artificial intelligence-based signal processing technology to support national security missions.

Josh Elliot, principal and director of artificial intelligence at Booz Allen Hamilton, told Datanami in an interview published Thursday about the company’s involvement in deep learning programs within the federal government. “We have probably 60 or more [projects] right now, today, active in deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence types of projects across the federal government right now,” Elliot told the publication at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif.

Bartley Richardson, a senior data scientist for artificial intelligence infrastructure at NVIDIA, has said using AI tools can help federal and state information technology teams protect sensitive government information from cyber threats.