Axon has launched two artificial intelligence and data analytics-driven tools designed to help streamline and automate manual monitoring procedures for law enforcement personnel.

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Axon obtained a provisional authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for a cloud-based digital evidence management system built to help agencies store, manage and secure data.

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Axon has appointed Mecole Jordan, Christy Lopez and Kathleen O’Toole to serve on the company’s ethics board focused on artificial intelligence.

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Axon has opened a new artificial intelligence center that will be used for public safety data training. The center was built in compliance with the FBI‘s Criminal Justice Information Services Security Policy and holds capacities to analyze police-specific data, the company said Monday. Agencies may share public safety data that the center will use as basis to train AI models […] More

Over the last three decades, Gary Hix has watched government contracting evolve dramatically, while still retaining its core principles. He’s no passive observer though: he’s played an active role at companies like Sallie Mae, Novus Consulting Group and IBM. He's currently chief technology officer at the federal arm of Hitachi Vantara.

ExecutiveBiz had the chance to talk to Hix and get his perspective on the current state of federal cloud migration, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and more.

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According to Melissa Carson of Iron Mountain Government Solutions, cloud-based intelligent document processing systems could help federal agencies meet the requirement of the National Archives and Records Administration to digitize government records by June. "Cloud-based IDP solutions can help extract both structured and unstructured data faster and with better accuracy than traditional methods," said Carson, vice president and general manager of Iron Mountain Government Solutions.

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Google Cloud has submitted its security package for Department of Defense Impact Level 5 in a machine-readable format, called Open Security Control Assessment Language, via the government’s web-based application eMass. OSCAL represents security control assessments developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and is meant to automate security assessments and facilitate the sharing […] More

Amazon Web Services and Splunk have initiated a project with 15 other technology companies to develop a common framework for standardizing cybersecurity data formats. Splunk said Wednesday the consortium aims to simplify taxonomy meant to help security professionals accelerate the process of ingesting and analyzing data through the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework. The initiative builds […] More

Cybersecurity risks are growing in today’s business world. Your company must be ready for different cyber threats. Due to access to federal information, data, and software, federal contractors are more likely to receive attacks than executive agencies. Your firm must comprehend federal cybersecurity regulations to avoid assaults from nation-states, organized crime, and hacktivists. What is […] More

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has agreed to cooperate with the Digital Twin Consortium in efforts to drive sector adoption of computer technology used to create virtual representations of a physical system in the pre-production process. Both parties intend to collaborate on shaping standards, requirements and interoperability approaches to help companies implement the […] More

A new report from the IBM Center for The Business of Government presents a synthesis of insights from defense, industry and academic leaders on the implementation of the multidomain command and control strategy and offers six action-oriented recommendations on how to deliver MDC2 capabilities to ensure collective defense in conflicts. The recommendations in the report […] More

A new Govini report has found that the Department of Defense’s spending on technologies meant to advance the Joint All Domain Command and Control concept rose between fiscal years 2017 and 2020, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. Govini found that DOD spending on “large and stovepiped” command, control, communications, computers and information programs that are specific […] More