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.
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 »AEI Acquires Linkware, Pangiam for Integrated Travel & Security Tech Push
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.
Read More »Arcarithm to Develop Big Data Mgmt, Mining Tools for MDA Digital Architecture
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.
Read More »In-Q-Tel Invests in Deepgram Speech Recognition Tech
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.
Read More »AWS’ Dave Levy on Early Learnings From COVID-19 HPC Consortium
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.
Read More »Intel’s Sean McPherson: AI Model Training Requires Human Input
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.
Read More »Charles River Analytics Partners With Academia to Support DARPA Effort
Charles River Analytics has partnered with academic institutions to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency boost the efficiency of machine-learning model development.
Read More »Microsoft’s Susie Adams: Deep Learning Can Provide “Human-Level Performance” for Agency Operations
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.
Read More »Pacific Northwest National Lab Adopts AWS Cloud to Build Image Similarity Tool; Ralph Perko Quoted
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.
Read More »Johns Hopkins APL Explains Advantages of Deep Learning for Eye Health
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.
Read More »NVIDIA’s Anthony Robbins: Data, Training, Computing Systems Key to US Leadership in AI
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, …
Read More »Ensco, DeepSig Form Signal Processing Tech Partnership; Vernon Joyner Quoted
Ensco and DeepSig partnered in an effort to help government customers implement an artificial intelligence-based signal processing technology to support national security missions.
Read More »Josh Elliot: Booz Allen Engages in Federal Deep Learning, AI Tech Development Projects
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.
Read More »NVIDIA’S Bartley Richardson: AI Can Aid Gov’t Network, Data Security
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.
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