Phil Fuster, Gary Hix and Pragyansmita Nayak of Hitachi Vantara Federal said in an opinion piece published Wednesday in Federal Times that the U.S. Postal Service, in seeking to improve efficiency during the holiday season, should find ways on how to harness the power of artificial intelligence.

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NASA has issued a solicitation for a follow-on contract to provide academic and university-based program and project support services to the Ames Research Center. A request for proposals published Wednesday on SAM.gov states that the NASA Academic Mission Services 2 contract will support the aeronautics and technology mission objectives of the Aeronautics Directorate and the Exploration Technology Directorate.

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Booz Allen Hamilton gathered insights from cybersecurity experts on the industry's response to federal regulations to ensure the responsible use of AI. The company held a panel discussion on principled AI featuring representatives from the government and the private sector.

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Peraton was awarded a $24 million modification to its contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for continued provision of imagery science expertise and infrastructure support. The award raises the Acadia contract overall value to $130 million and covers six months of services from Peraton to support the agency's image quality and integration testing missions.

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The F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office plans to award multiple contract actions to RTX business Pratt & Whitney to continue the work started under the F135 Engine Enhancement Program, now called F135 Engine Core Upgrade. Pratt & Whitney had been working on the EEP as the sole-source awardee of the Engine Enhancement Preliminary Design contract, which was issued in 2022 and is set to conclude by February 2024, according to a notice posted Monday on SAM.gov.

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Rachel De Geyndt, formerly vice president of growth at Savan Group, has taken on a similar role at information technology government contractor RIVA Solutions, according to her LinkedIn post. In her new position, she is responsible for overseeing the business development and capture management team of the McLean, Virginia-based company.

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Colonel Richard Kniseley boasts more than two decades of experience in the federal space sector. In his current role as the Senior Materiel Leader of the Commercial Space Office at the Space Systems Command in Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, his responsibilities focus on investing in commercial capabilities.   Col. Kniseley’s demonstrated history and […] More

LatticeFlow, a Zurich, Switzerland-headquartered developer of resilient artificial intelligence systems, has entered the U.S. market with a new business unit dedicated to delivering safe and trustworthy AI platforms to government and commercial customers.

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Dave Levy, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, said there are four areas where generative artificial intelligence could benefit public sector organizations and the first is the capability of large language models and other generative AI tools to process and analyze large volumes of data, enabling agencies to glean insights and make informed decisions. Levy, a four-time Wash100 awardee, wrote in an article published Wednesday on Forbes that generative AI could help agencies optimize resource allocation through analysis of historical data and demand patterns.

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Changeis has received a contract award from the Department of Homeland Security for enhancing and streamlining the workload analysis and resource models of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The modernization of USCIS' Staffing Allocation Models and Model for Operational Planning is aimed at accelerating case processing times and cutting immigration system backlogs.

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ICF has secured a $36 million task order to help the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement modernize its human resources technology systems in support of a governmentwide initiative to recruit and retain more women in law enforcement.

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The “exorbitant” amount of data being taken in by the U.S. Army is impacting the effectiveness of warfighters and commanders, and the service branch’s leaders say they actually need less of it. “Information overload is real. Data overload is real,” said Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, during a panel discussion at the ExecutiveBiz Army Acquisition Priorities: Balancing Readiness and Modernization Forum on Wednesday.

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