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  • IARPA Awards Biometric Presentation Attack Detection Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Awards Biometric Presentation Attack Detection Contracts

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded four contracts under a multiyear project that aims to develop and evaluate biometric presentation attack detection technologies. Teams led by Cross Match Technologies, SRI International, Michigan State University and University of Southern California will explore new algorithms, tools and sensors to detect presentation attacks as part of Odin program’s Thor […] More

  • IARPA Selects Partners to Develop Methods for Evaluating the Intelligence Community Workforce - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Selects Partners to Develop Methods for Evaluating the Intelligence Community Workforce

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded research contracts to select industry partners as part of a program to develop continuously sensing, passive and unobtrusive methods to evaluate an individual’s cognitive, physiological and psychological aspects. Lockheed Martin, the University of Memphis, the University of Southern California and the University of Notre Dame would each […] More

  • IARPA Awards Contracts for Research on Human-Machine Geopolitical Forecasting Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Awards Contracts for Research on Human-Machine Geopolitical Forecasting Tech

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded research contracts under the Hybrid Forecasting Competition program that aims to enhance the accuracy of geopolitical event prediction methods. IARPA selected HRL Laboratories, Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary and the University of Southern California to conduct research on hybrid forecasting systems under the HFC program, the Office of the Director of […] More

  • Vencore Presents Internet-of-Things R&D Projects at INSA Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Presents Internet-of-Things R&D Projects at INSA Forum

    Vencore‘s research arm has showcased three internet-of-things technologies to a group of U.S. government engineers, scientists and technologies at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s 2017 Innovators’ Showcase held in McLean, Virginia. Vencore Labs offered insights into its research efforts in IoT areas such as low-power networks, telematics and smart grid during the forum, the company said […] More

  • Mitre Elects Former DoD Official Paul Kaminski to Board of Trustees - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Elects Former DoD Official Paul Kaminski to Board of Trustees

    Paul Kaminski, a former Defense Department undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, has joined Mitre‘s board of trustees. The nonprofit said Thursday he currently serves as president and CEO of Technovation, a consulting company that helps clients develop business and investment strategies related to aerospace and defense technology. Jason Providakes, Mitre president and CEO, said Kaminski will contribute […] More

  • Former Intell Community CIO Al Tarasiuk Joins Digital Reasoning Board; Tim Estes Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Intell Community CIO Al Tarasiuk Joins Digital Reasoning Board; Tim Estes Comments

    Al Tarasiuk, chief security officer at Deutsche Bank and a more than 26-year federal service veteran, has joined the board of directors of Nashville, Tennessee-based cognitive computing software developer Digital Reasoning. Digital Reasoning said Thursday that Tarasiuk previously served as the intelligence community chief information officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and CIO of the […] More

  • IARPA Seeks Methods to Collect Low-Resource Speech, Text Content - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Seeks Methods to Collect Low-Resource Speech, Text Content

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has asked industry to propose methods to find speech and text content in low-resource languages relevant to domain-contextualized English queries. IARPA said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice the Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language program seeks an end-to-end system that can support monolingual triage of multilingual datasets. The agency added it wants […] More

  • INSA Appoints LGS Innovations CEO Kevin Kelly as Technology & Innovation Council Chair - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INSA Appoints LGS Innovations CEO Kevin Kelly as Technology & Innovation Council Chair

    LGS Innovations CEO Kevin Kelly has been named chair of the Technology and Innovation Council at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. Herndon, Virginia-based LGS Innovations said Thursday Kelly succeeds Bob Farrell and will support technology exchange between the government, security community, industry practitioners and academia in his new role. Kelly will also organize the annual INSA Innovators’ Showcase event where private sector […] More

  • Noblis’ Roger Mason, CIA Vet Carmen Medina Join US Geospatial Intell Foundation as Board Members - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Noblis’ Roger Mason, CIA Vet Carmen Medina Join US Geospatial Intell Foundation as Board Members

    Roger Mason Jr., senior vice president of national security and intelligence at Noblis, and MedinAnalytics founder Carmen Medina have joined the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation as members of the board of directors. Mason and Medina will join the other 25 members of USGIF’s board and will serve a three-year term, USGIF said Thursday. Mason, who also serves […] More

  • Former DIA Official David Shedd Joins SOSi's Board of Advisers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DIA Official David Shedd Joins SOSi’s Board of Advisers

    David Shedd, a former deputy director and acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has joined SOS International‘s board of advisers. Shedd will help the company with regards to leadership, growth and governance along with the other business, defense and government leaders in the advisory board, SOSi said Tuesday. “David’s experience in the intelligence community and Latin America closely align with […] More

  • AT&T’s Kay Kapoor Among 2016 Women in Technology Leadership Award Winners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Kay Kapoor Among 2016 Women in Technology Leadership Award Winners

    Kay Kapoor, president of government solutions business at AT&T, has won the Women in Technology’s 2016 Leadership Award for the corporate large market sector category in recognition of her work in the technology industry. WIT held the 17th Annual Leadership Awards Thursday at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia, in an effort to acknowledge the mentorship, […] More