IBM has made its Watson artificial intelligence platform available across all cloud environments offered by Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and other cloud service providers, Nextgov reported Thursday. Claude Yusti, head of the AI practice at IBM’s federal branch, said the move could help federal agencies advance AI adoption and circumvent barriers to data access and information sharing.

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TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 28, 2019 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) has named retired U.S. Navy officer Michelle Howard, who commanded Allied Joint Force Command Naples and U.S. Naval Forces in Europe and Africa before she left military service, as a member of the company’s board of directors, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday […] More

IBM has received a two-year, $24.5M contract to help the General Services Administration operate and maintain two legacy online contracting information systems as the agency migrates data to a new platform.

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Caveonix has announced the availability of a risk management platform to customers who use integrated IBM and VMware products that facilitate migration of workloads from on premises to a cloud environment.

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IBM and a public research university have partnered to open a facility in Albany, N.Y. to develop and test artificial intelligence-based computer chips as part of the technology firm's $2.B high-technology investment plan.

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IBM and its subsidiary The Weather Co. plan to launch this year a weather forecasting model that could have potential applications in the federal government, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. The Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting system is designed to generate short-term weather predictions worldwide by analyzing data from smartphones, aircraft-based sensors and other data sources using POWER9 processors.

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ExxonMobil and five research laboratories have joined an IBM-led network to explore potential scientific and business applications of quantum computing. The IBM Q Network is a community of companies, research labs, startups and academic institutions and works to accelerate research into quantum computing by providing access to quantum software, developer tools and other resources, IBM said Tuesday.

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IBM has received a two-year, $92.1M contract modification to support a web-based enterprise resource planning system the U.S. Army uses to manage financial, asset and accounting functions. The Department of Defense said Friday the company will provide services and platforms necessary to maintain the Army’s General Fund Enterprise Business System. The Army will obligate $15.2M at the time […] More

IBM has developed an artificial intelligence-powered technology to help the U.S. Marine Corps manage data on personnel and equipment as part of combat preparedness efforts, Nextgov reported Thursday. Matthew Dalkiewicz, manager of the Navy and Marine Corps account at IBM, said he expects the data management tool to aid the latter service branch in efforts to deploy active-duty […] More

Intel, IBM, Oracle and Raytheon have expressed interest in joining a potential competition to provide the Defense Department with artificial intelligence technologies that would support the U.S. military, Nextgov reported Wednesday. The four companies are among 42 businesses that hope to join an AI demonstration event hosted by the Army Research Lab, DoD’s Joint Artificial […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with IBM to leverage an artificial intelligence system to rate the severity of publicly reported cyber vulnerabilities, Nextgov reported Friday. Matthew Scholl, head of NIST’s computer security division, said the institute expects IBM’s Watson AI system to give risk scores to most public computer bugs by […] More

IBM’s planned $34B acquisition of Red Hat could have an impact on the federal cloud market and agencies’ information technology modernization plans, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. IBM agreed in late October to pay $190 in cash for each share of Red Hat in a move to establish a global provider of hybrid cloud platforms. BGOV […] More