Accenture has invested in Titan Space Technologies to help the latter further develop its artificial intelligence models and other orbital compute platforms to support space experimentation. The strategic investment marks Titan’s participation in an Accenture Ventures program, dubbed Project Spotlight, that seeks to invest in companies working on enterprise technologies and link software startups to […] More

Microsoft Azure has announced several partnerships made to support the platform’s use for artificial intelligence and connectivity applications in space. Tom Keane, corporate vice president for mission engineering at Microsoft Azure, wrote in a blog post published Monday that the company partnered with NASA and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to test how AI can support astronaut […] More

Executive Mosaic is pleased to select Anthony Robbins, vice president of NVIDIA’s federal arm, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award, which annually recognizes the top figures in the government contracting community for their impacts across the federal landscape. This marks Robbins’ fifth Wash100 selection and represents his commitment to ushering in an era of artificial […] More

Janet Brewer and Jim Gallagher, former executives at Perspecta, were named to the executive leadership team of Arcfield to oversee its human resources and legal operations, respectively. Brewer will lead the execution of people-related initiatives as chief people officer while Gallagher will provide advice on law, privacy, contracting, investment and compliance as chief legal officer, […] More

A Hewlett Packard Enterprise subsidiary can now provide its cloud-based networking platform to government customers after securing product approval from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Aruba’s Central software-as-a-service offering is designed to help organizations manage information technology networks from a single dashboard, the HPE-owned business said Thursday. “We’re seeing our government customers migrate […] More

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 25, 2021 — Valiant Integrated Services has announced a series of executive moves including the appointment of John Hart, former vice president of business and capture at Peraton’s defense solutions business, as chief growth officer, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 5. The over 25-year GovCon industry veteran also worked at DXC Technology, […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have launched a testbed supercomputer designed to help developers and scientists optimize artificial intelligence, scientific and engineering projects planned for Aurora, the forthcoming exascale supercomputer. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host and manage the Polaris testbed supercomputer, which will be installed by HPE […] More

Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise conducted an experiment involving genomics testing to demonstrate how an edge-to-cloud computational workflow could help overcome bandwidth and computing limitations between the International Space Station and Earth. The Azure Space team at Microsoft launched an experiment that involved monitoring astronauts’ health and sequencing their genomes aboard the ISS, Gabe Monroy, […] More

The Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has launched the initial phase of a new supercomputer, dubbed Perlmutter, designed to support U.S. scientific research and discoveries in areas such as artificial intelligence, data science, climate change, semiconductors, clean energy technologies and advanced computing. Perlmutter is […] More

The U.S. Postal Service has implemented an edge artificial intelligence system on the NVIDIA EGX platform to help speed up the process of identifying and tracking packages within hours instead of several days. The distributed edge AI platform, called the Edge Computing Infrastructure Program, emerged from a three-week sprint in 2019. During the sprint, a USPS data scientist and NVIDIA architects identified ways to accelerate the analysis of billions of images of packages each USPS center generates by designing deep learning models.

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NVIDIA has launched a cloud-native application framework driven by artificial intelligence that works to rapidly detect cybersecurity threats including malware, phishing attacks and leaks of sensitive data. NVIDIA said Monday that the Morpheus framework is powered by its graphics processing units and designed to identify, capture and execute actions on cyber threats through machine learning.

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John Phillips, a more than 20-year enterprise software sales management veteran, has joined automated testing services provider Tricentis as vice president for public sector. Phillips will oversee Tricentis' public sector go-to-market approach and build strategic partner relationships under his new capacity.

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