Axon has launched a charity initiative, the Axon Aid program, which seeks to help cities in the event of natural disasters by using its drone technology to provide situational awareness to government officials.

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The Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center seeks sources on software platforms that will work to pinpoint infrastructure and people affected by floods through the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence methods, GCN reported Wednesday.

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OmniSci and Disaster Intelligence have partnered to apply data technologies such as geospatial analysis and graphics processing unit-based analytics for disaster management efforts.

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SAS has established an Opioid Analytics Users Group that seeks to analyze data from medical records, toxicology results, and police reports nationwide to develop insights into which areas of the country require aid in the ongoing opioid crisis, GovTech reported Friday.

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Jon Lemon, a strategic solutions specialist at SAS’ government unit, wrote in an opinion piece posted Wednesday on Federal Times how data analytics could help federal agencies in their workforce management efforts. A federal agency’s time and attendance systems, human resource platform, financial tools and employee satisfaction surveys are some of the data sources that could be integrated to form a “centralized analytics dashboard,” he wrote.

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Govs. John Bel Edwards and Asa Hutchinson, together with Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy, are calling for more interstate collaboration and public-private partnerships to address growing threats to U.S. cybersecurity.

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Aerojet Rocketdyne broke ground Thursday on its engineering, manufacturing and development site in Camden, Ark., for solid rocket motors.

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TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 29, 2019 — ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) hired Marko Bourne, a former official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and principal at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), to serve as senior vice president of disaster management, GovCon Wire reported Thursday. Bourne, who most recently led Booz Allen’s homeland security, disaster assistance and […] More

Mitre has selected SAS as one of four finalists for a challenge that seeks a method for verifying government assistance eligibility to mitigate instances of fraud or error.

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Cary, N.C.-based analytics firm SAS has announced plans to invest $1B in the next three years in artificial intelligence. The company said Monday the AI investment will focus on research and development innovation; education programs meant to address client needs; and expert services to maximize customer return on AI-related projects.

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Laurie Cook, former senior account executive for the federal civilian market at SAS, has been appointed vice president of public sector sales and alliances at robotic process automation company Blue Prism, G2Xchange ETC reported Friday.

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Sasi Mudigonda, former chief of financial crime management product strategy and architecture at Oracle, has been appointed senior vice president of product at McLean, Va.-based analytics company Haystax.

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