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  • Leidos Opens Tech Collaboration Facility in Canberra, Australia; Tim Reardon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Opens Tech Collaboration Facility in Canberra, Australia; Tim Reardon Comments

    Leidos has opened a new facility in Canberra, Australia, in a move to provide collaboration space for the company’s employees, clients and partners to explore new technology platforms, ARN reported Friday. The CONNECT hub will employ at least 20 professionals and support government customer programs in the information technology, communications, cyber, geospatial analytics and simulation […] More

  • Intel's Melvin Greer to Keynote 2018 Telecom Exchange Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel’s Melvin Greer to Keynote 2018 Telecom Exchange Forum

    Melvin Greer, chief data scientist for Intel‘s public sector in the Americas, will deliver a keynote address at the Telecom Exchange NYC 2018 event to be hosted by Jaymie Scotto & Associates and slated to take place June 20 in Hoboken, New Jersey. He plans to discuss the opportunities and challenges of network platforms based on artificial intelligence and data […] More

  • NIH Supercomputing Cluster Lands Spot on Top500 List; CSRA’s Kamal Narang Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH Supercomputing Cluster Lands Spot on Top500 List; CSRA’s Kamal Narang Comments

    A computing platform that CSRA upgraded for the National Institutes of Health has been named to the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. NIH’s Biowulf cluster ranked 66th on the Top500’s 2017 list, CSRA said Monday. Biowulf works to process simultaneous computations related to genomics, statistical analysis, image processing and other areas in biomedical research. CSRA […] More

  • Supermicro to Help Expand Computing & Data Analytics Capacity for NASA Climate Simulation Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Supermicro to Help Expand Computing & Data Analytics Capacity for NASA Climate Simulation Center

    NASA has selected Super Micro Computer to help expand the capacity of computing and data analytics systems at the space agency’s Center for Climate Simulation. Supermicro said Monday it will provide a company-built Rack Scale platform that will offer 1.56 petaflops of additional computing capacity to NCCS. NCCS is located within the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology […] More

  • Tech Trade Group Issues Policy Principles to Promote Responsible AI R&D, Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Trade Group Issues Policy Principles to Promote Responsible AI R&D, Deployment

    A technology trade group has issued policy principles that aim to advance responsible design and adoption of artificial intelligence platforms, The Hill reported Tuesday. “As we develop and design AI, human safety will be at the center of that deployment,” said Dean Garfield, president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council. The policy principles […] More

  • Intel Invests $60M in 15 Startups to Back Analytics, Cybersecurity Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Invests $60M in 15 Startups to Back Analytics, Cybersecurity Tech Development

    Intel has invested more than $60 million in 15 technology startups through its global investment arm to support the development of cybersecurity, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and autonomous platforms. Intel Capital made investments in companies that develop novel technology platforms across analytics, data capture, data management and information security areas, the company said Thursday. […] More

  • Lockheed, Leidos, Northrop Named Top Federal IT Vendors in IDC Report - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Leidos, Northrop Named Top Federal IT Vendors in IDC Report

    A business unit of International Data Corp. has ranked companies with the highest revenues from the sale of information technology products and services to federal government customers in 2017. IDC Government Insights said Wednesday its 2017 Federal IT Rankings are based on federal IT providers’ calendar year revenues for IT hardware, software and services instead of potential earnings […] More

  • Brian Krzanich: Intel Invests $1B in Startups to Help Drive AI Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brian Krzanich: Intel Invests $1B in Startups to Help Drive AI Tech Development

    Intel has invested more than $1 billion in startup companies to support the development of artificial intelligence technologies. CEO Brian Krzanich wrote in an article published Monday that Intel has funded AI-focused companies such as Mighty AI, Data Robot and Lumiata through the firm’s capital business. Krzanich added Intel developed suite of AI products to help customers manage workloads. The […] More

  • Dave DeWalt, David Petraeus Named to Optiv Board; Dan Burns Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave DeWalt, David Petraeus Named to Optiv Board; Dan Burns Comments

    Denver, Colorado-based cybersecurity platforms provider Optiv Security has named Dave DeWalt, formerly CEO of FireEye, and David Petraeus, a retired U.S. Army general, to its board of directors. DeWalt, a 25-year technology industry veteran, will also serve as vice chairman of the board at Optiv, the company said Thursday. DeWalt previously served as president and […] More

  • Narendra Gupta Elected Red Hat Board Chair - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Narendra Gupta Elected Red Hat Board Chair

    Narendra Gupta, co-founder and managing director of investment firm Nexus Venture Partners, has been named chairman of the board of directors at open source software provider Red Hat. Red Hat said Tuesday Gupta has served on the company’s board since 2005 and succeeds H. Hugh Shelton, who retired after seven years of chairmanship. Gupta co-founded Integrated Systems […] More

  • DARPA Holds Kickoff Meeting for IP Reuse Strategy-Based 'Chiplets' Devt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Holds Kickoff Meeting for IP Reuse Strategy-Based ‘Chiplets’ Devt Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency held a kickoff meeting with approximately 100 participants from commercial, academic and military sectors for the Common Heterogeneous Integration and Intellectual Property Reuse Strategies program. The CHIPS program aims to create a community of technologists and researchers as well as establish a technological framework designed to facilitate the segregation of […] More

  • Intel Exhibits Deep Learning Tech at NASA AI R&D Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Exhibits Deep Learning Tech at NASA AI R&D Event

    Intel hosted the closing event of NASA‘s eight-week artificial intelligence research and development program at the company’s Santa Clara, California facility. Intel said Thursday it supported research on how artificial intelligence can help address challenges in the areas of space weather, space resources and planetary defense as a partner in NASA’s Frontier Development Lab program. As part […] More