Since we last spoke with Hector Collazo, he has been laser-focused on integrating artificial intelligence tools into the strategies of IT provider Sev1Tech, in his role as chief technology officer. In this latest Executive Spotlight interview, Collazo breaks down his current perspectives on AI and explains why it’s a crucial aspect of today’s tech landscape, among other discussion points.

If you're a government contractor and you want to explore the field and its applications in the defense and federal markets, it's imperative you save a spot at the upcoming March 21 AI Summit.

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As of July 2023, RTX and SAIC veteran John Havermann is president and CEO of Fornax Advanced Materials. In this role, Havermann is deeply committed to securing Fornax as a go-to name in aerospace, defense and energy advanced materials manufacturing.

The busy leader recently sat down with ExecutiveBiz to give us a peek behind the curtain at his new company, explain how it’s responding to the national security threats of the day and more.

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HII’s Ingalls shipbuilding division has laid the keel of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer named after George Neal, a Korean war veteran and a U.S. Navy Cross awardee. The namesake’s daughter, Kelley Neal Gray, sponsored the vessel's keel authentication ceremony in Pascagoula, Mississippi, HII said Friday.

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Thomas “Pat” Flanders is a well-known computer scientist who has served the government for over 30 years. Over the years, Mr. Flanders has shown true leadership excellence across the Department of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. Army.   Pat Flanders will participate as a speaker at the upcoming POC 2023 Healthcare Summit on December 6, […] More

Federal information technology and professional services provider IPTA has appointed James Combs Jr. as regional vice president. IPTA said Monday that, in this role, Combs will work to manage prime contracts as overseer of the company's newly-established southeast business unit.

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NASA has selected seven vendors that will compete for task orders under the expanded Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program procurement effort. The vendors were chosen based on the technical acceptability of their proposals and the reasonableness of their proposed contract prices relative to their commercial pricing, Kevin Murphy, the chief science data officer at NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement issued Sept. 18.

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Redhorse has secured a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Services to provide analytic and technical support services to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and fourth estate agencies. The company said the ATSS contract covers professional, scientific and technical services supporting DOD's mission requirements in capability portfolio management; data science, analytics and governance; and engineering and agile methodologies.

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A team of researchers at IBM Research's laboratory in Almaden, California, has developed a brain-inspired chip, called NorthPole, that could pave the way for the development of more energy-efficient and faster artificial intelligence hardware systems. Dharmendra Modha and his colleagues from IBM Research used a 12-nanometer node processing technology to develop the chip prototype, which has 22 billion transistors and 256 cores with the capability to carry out 2,048 operations for each core per cycle at 8-bit precision, according to an IBM Research blog post published Friday.

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Albers Aerospace’s mission is to provide superior goods and services to the public and private sectors while contributing constructively. Leaders, founders, and executives at the company draw on years of military experience to benefit clients and employees.   Albers Aerospace Leaders, Founders, Execs: Who are they?   Read on and get to know Albers Aerospace’s […] More

Riverside Research landed a prime contract to build the prototype for the Space System Command's Data Exploitation and Enhanced Processing for Space Domain Awareness program. The nonprofit organization will be supported by CMSOC Corp., space-to-cloud data analytics firm Spire Global and system developer SciTec, according to DEEP-SDA's managing entity, the National Technology Security Accelerator.

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Who are the US alllies? Throughout history, the United States has joined forces with other countries to work toward shared objectives and safeguard core values. These foreign relations play a role in shaping America’s foreign policy and maintaining national security. Recently, the U.S. has highlighted its commitment to alliance partners by recognizing their strides in […] More

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has selected three teams as winners of the demonstration phase of a prize competition seeking to develop technologies for the collection of geomagnetic data to update the World Magnetic Model. Iota Technology, the University of Colorado Boulder and a Spire Global-SBQuantum partnership secured millions in funding to further develop their magnetometer […] More