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

The Air Force Research Laboratory will accept proposals for research and development efforts covering high-power electromagnetics weapons concepts and platforms under a program led by AFRL’s directed energy directorate. The lab said Friday in a broad agency announcement posted on SAM.gov it plans to award a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract in support of the Electromagnetic Weapons […] 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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The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking proposals for a research initiative focused on advanced high power electromagnetic sources to help the Department of Defense meet its requirements for HPEM technologies and components.

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Carahsoft Technology has added 65 new vendors to its contract with the U.S. Army for computer software and associated hardware deliveries. The company said Tuesday it now has 128 providers under the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 contract. ITES-SW2 supports the Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions or CHESS program, which aims to help the federal government augment its enterprise infrastructure.

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MarkLogic has appointed Jeffrey Casale, former president of Dell Technologies' select group, as CEO and named David Donatelli, former executive vice president of Oracle's cloud business group, to the company’s board of directors. “MarkLogic has distinguished itself through its robust product offering, blue chip customer base, and strong foundation for growth, and I am thrilled to be joining the company at this exciting time in its evolution,” said Casale. 

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Mercury Systems has introduced a new rackmount server technology designed to withstand harsh environments and ensure the integrity of data for artificial intelligence and electronic warfare applications.

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Seagate Technology's government solutions business has launched a supply chain assurance project with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its industry partners. “Securing the supply chain and verifying the integrity of devices is of paramount importance to the U.S. federal government," said Mike Moritzkat, managing director and CEO of Seagate Government Solutions. 

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Oracle's headquarters has been transferred from Redwood City, California to Austin, Texas, in a move to provide employees of the software company more work location options amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomberg reported Saturday.

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