The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, which includes Mitre, has unveiled an online tool for government and business decision-makers to visualize data such as confirmed coronavirus cases at the state and national levels.

Octo Consulting has appointed Rob Albritton, an award-winning artificial intelligence and machine learning leader, as senior director of the company’s AI Center of Excellence, Octo announced on Tuesday.

Christian Zur of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Scott Kordella of Mitre wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday on Federal Times that the U.S. needs to have a “single operational picture” to facilitate timely and accurate monitoring of aircraft and space systems and enable the space launch sector to safely coexist with the aviation industry.

AttackIQ has launched a cybersecurity training academy focused on helping partners address emerging cyber risks and implement best practices in line with Mitre’s Adversarial Tactics Techniques and Common Knowledge database.

HawkEye 360 has named Martin Faga of the National Reconnaissance Office, Joan Dempsey of Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency and former senator Joe Donnelly to its advisory board to add defense and intelligence expertise, the company announced on Thursday. 

Peraton will compete for task orders in six functional areas to provide support services for the U.S. Navy’s unmanned surface vehicle family of systems under a potential 10-year, $982.1M contract awarded in early February.

Panelists at CyberSat 2019 said the satellite industry faces misaligned market incentives when it comes to cybersecurity, Via Satellite reported Friday.

Halleh Seyson, a more than two-decade professional in the federal health information technology industry, has been appointed as senior vice president at management consulting firm Cathexis, G2Xchange ETC reported Monday.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Mitre, Devis and Giant Oak have been inducted into The Homeland Security and Defense Business Council, a homeland security consortium composed of small businesses and large companies.

The General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget have awarded $300K each to three teams that won the Government Effectiveness Advanced Research Center challenge.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency requests for information on high cadence analytic and data services. NGA said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice it seeks input on technologies designed to plan collections across satellite constellations and perform analytics on large amounts of data to generate high cadence geospatial intelligence.

John Forte, who has worked at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory since 2010, has taken a new role as APL's mission area executive for homeland protection. He will lead the development of technology platforms designed to protect the country from asymmetric threats, APL said Monday.