IBM has received authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer its cloud-based human capital management platform to government customers. IBM Federal HR Cloud is a shared service tool designed to support core human resources management functions such as payroll, time entry and performance management and benefits administration, the company said Wednesday. […] More

IBM has received authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer its cloud-based human capital management platform to government customers. IBM Federal HR Cloud is a shared service tool designed to support core human resources management functions such as payroll, time entry and performance management and benefits administration. More

IBM has participated in a Series D round launched by open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face to raise $235 million in funding as the latter works to advance technology innovation and further expand its presence in the open science AI market. The move builds on IBM’s collaboration with Hugging Face on watsonx. IBM said Thursday […] More

Accenture‘s federal business, IBM and Telesto Group have been selected to help the U.S. Army transition its enterprise business systems to a modernized platform to streamline the delivery of services for multi-domain operations. The companies received Phase 1 contracts to develop prototypes of the Enterprise Business Systems – Convergence system designed to streamline and unify […] More

Margie Graves, senior fellow at the IBM Center for The Business of Government, said the technology base of the National Finance Center within the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires an immediate “stabilization” and long-term modernization, Federal News Network reported Monday. The National Academy of Public Administration issued a report in July recommending that NFC implement […] More

IBM’s research arm has developed an analog artificial intelligence-based chip designed to perform deep neural network inference tasks. The analog AI chip comes with 64 analog in-memory compute cores each containing 256-by-256 crossbar array of synaptic unit cells and digital processing units that could carry out scaling functions and nonlinear neuronal activation operations, IBM Research […] More

Watsonx.ai, a geospatial foundation model IBM built from NASA’s satellite data, was made available on open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face in an effort to expand use of the space agency’s Earth science data for geospatial intelligence and advance climate-related innovation. Sriram Raghavan, vice president of IBM Research AI, said in a statement published Thursday, […] More

IBM has obtained accreditation from a Department of Defense organization to deliver embedded security services tailored to a U.S.-based advanced microelectronics producer. The company said Wednesday the Defense Microelectronics Activity issued the Trusted Supplier accreditation to IBM Consulting’s security services, which work to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in the microelectronics supply chain. The security services […] More

IBM has won one of four spots on the Internal Revenue Services’ seven-year, $2.6 billion information technology modernization contract vehicle. The company said Wednesday that it will be part of the IRS Enterprise Development Operations Services program, which will involve upgrades in cybersecurity, taxpayer service platforms, advanced analytics and other IT systems. EDOS was introduced […] More

A team of researchers at IBM demonstrated the capability of a quantum computer to generate accurate results at a scale of more than 100 quantum bits using novel error mitigation techniques. IBM said Wednesday the error mitigation techniques were developed to address the noise or disturbances that cause errors in the computations of quantum computers. […] More

IBM is investing $100 million in a new initiative to develop a 100,000-qubit quantum-centric supercomputer intended to support research in areas including climate change and clean energy The University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago will work with IBM over the next decade to design and build the quantum systems’ components and underlying technologies, […] More

IBM has unveiled a set of capabilities designed to help government agencies, businesses and other organizations protect critical data as they transition to post-quantum cryptography. The IBM Quantum Safe technology is composed of three tools: IBM Quantum Safe Explorer, Quantum Safe Advisor and Quantum Safe Remediator, the company said Wednesday. The IBM Quantum Safe Explorer, […] More