Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Jill Singer, vice president of national security at AT&T’s global public sector solutions unit, has been selected for the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for her vision to improve the company’s position in artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning. This marks her fourth Wash100 win.

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A Market Research Engine report predicts the global artificial intelligence market will grow at a 37 percent annual compound growth rate through 2024 to reach $191B. The research company said Sunday the growth of big data, a demand for intelligent virtual assistants and the adoption of cloud computing applications and services are among the factors that will drive AI market […] More

The U.S. Cyber Command is seeking a contractor to support the development of a Big Data Platform through engineering expertise, analytical development services and software licenses. Cybercom said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday that the BDP will use a scalable cloud computing infrastructure to support packet capture data, data analysis and secure information sharing […] More

The Interior Department‘s National Park Service wants information about companies that can recommend methods for the agency to collect, analyze and manage data for park visitor use and transportation management planning efforts. NPS seeks ideas from industry on how to gather data via location-based services, global positioning system, context and wireless signaling, DOI said Monday […] More

Five companies have won contracts worth up to $1M each from the U.S. Army to build a big data management platform designed to integrate and analyze information from various data sources and carry out forecasting and predictive analytics functions. The service posted the award notices Thursday in support of the two-phase Army Leader Dashboard program […] More

CIA plans to team up with companies to perform open-source intelligence and big data experiments using an Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. An updated acquisition schedule posted May 7 says the agency will use the C2S unclassified cloud platform for the five-year Mesa Verde project that will analyze large data workloads and […] More

The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Office of the Inspector General has asked industry to provide information on current analytics technology products designed to manage large amounts of data from structured and unstructured sources. A FedBizOpps notice published Tuesday says HHS OIG looks to help staff members explore, analyze information with the use of technology and use […] More

Tony Frazier, president of Radiant Solutions, told Trajectory Magazine in an interview published Wednesday one of the trends he sees in the remote sensing sector is the capability to leverage technologies such as big data analytics and artificial intelligence to generate insights from collected data. “The bottleneck is going to be how we can extract […] More

MapR Technologies has been recognized by two publications for the company’s converged data platform that works to help enterprise customers process, manage and secure large volumes of data. The company said Thursday it received Datanami’s “Best Big Data Product or Technology” award in the internet-of-things category and landed a spot on the “Top 5 Vendors […] More

DLT Solutions and DataRobot have partnered to offer a big data, analytics and data science platform to government agencies. DLT said Monday its AnalyticsStack platform will work to help agencies architect, acquire and deploy enterprise analytics tools such as big data infrastructure, advanced analytics and data science systems. “To answer new questions of extremely large and complex […] More

A new Deltek report says U.S. law enforcement entities increased spending on big data platforms and services between fiscal years 2014 to 2016. Christine Fritsch, a Deltek research analyst, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that the Justice Department grew its contract spending on big data technologies to $39 million in FY 2016, from $36 million in […] More

Altamira has started to offer its big data fusion, analysis and visualization platform on the Microsoft Azure marketplace as part of efforts to help customers transform information into actionable intelligence. Altamira said Tuesday the integration of its Lumify platform with Azure services seeks to accelerate deep learning and data analytics in real time. Lumify is designed to help users […] More