IBM plans to invest more than $1 billion in its newly-established Watson Group business for building and marketing cloud-based cognitive technologies in an effort to help answer customer queries from large volumes of data. Michael Rhodin, formerly IBM’s senior vice president for software services group, will lead the Watson Group and that business will focus on research […] More

Executive Mosaic, the premier media and events organization in the government contracting sector, is honored to announce the 2024 edition of the highly anticipated Wash100 Award. Now in its historic 11th year, the Wash100 Award recognizes the top 100 industry executives and government leaders in the GovCon community for their outstanding leadership, positive impact and […] More

Gabe Camarillo, senior vice president of the Army Business Unit for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding SAIC’s reorganization of the business unit, the advancing capabilities and modernization initiatives for the service branch, recent contracts to expand the company’s HWIL, engineering and support services as well as SAIC’s establishment in the Huntsville market and goals for the rest of 2021. 

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Science Applications International Corp. has received a potential five-year, $39 million task order from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to provide engineering services to the U.S. Marine Corps‘ Combat Operations Center. SAIC said Wednesday it will also help COC develop, integrate and security software as well as provide information assurance, logistics and […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has received an 18-month, $61 million task order from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to perform engineering upgrade and integration work on two types of military vehicle. SAIC said Thursday it will integrate command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance applications and hardware kits for the U.S. Army‘s High-Mobility […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has rolled out an amphibious combat vehicle model developed for the U.S. Marine Corps at a company-run integration facility in Charleston, South Carolina. SAIC said Tuesday the ACV 1.1 prototype is an updated version of ST Kinetics‘ TERREX vehicle and designed to help the Marine Corps transport fighting units from ship to shore. The service […] More

Science Applications International Corp. and its partner ST Kinetics will start the development of 13 prototypes for the engineering, manufacturing and development phase of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle Increment 1 program. Under a $121.5 million contract previously awarded by the U.S. Marine Corps, SAIC and ST will build the eight-by-eight wheeled, armored ACV called TERREX 2, which is designed to transport […] More

IBM has teamed up with NASA to build a suite of transformer architecture-based language models designed to give the scientific and academic community access to vast amounts of scientific knowledge and information. The IBM-NASA models were trained on 60 billion tokens from a collection of astrophysics, earth science, planetary science, heliophysics and biological and physical sciences data.

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IBM has created a toolkit designed to help businesses deploy and monitor trustworthy generative artificial intelligence technologies. The tech giant revealed Tuesday that it will launch the watsonx.governance software early next month to aid organizations in complying with future safety and transparency AI regulations within and outside the U.S.

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In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) emerged as a driving force revolutionizing numerous sectors. From healthcare to finance, manufacturing to transportation, AI’s potential to transform industries and unlock unprecedented possibilities is undeniable. As we delve into 2023, AI companies are gearing to push the boundaries of innovation and target industry breakthroughs that […] More

IBM has participated in a Series D round launched by open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face to raise $235 million in funding as the latter works to advance technology innovation and further expand its presence in the open science AI market. The move builds on IBM’s collaboration with Hugging Face on watsonx. IBM said Thursday […] More

Ventech Solutions CEO Tonia Bleecher is a government contracting veteran with a passion for working to improve the nation’s health care ecosystem. In 2018, Bleecher joined Ventech, a trusted partner to the public sector leading critical technology transformations that empower government agencies to meet their missions. She started as a senior vice president and swiftly […] More