Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson personally presented the 2025 Wash100 Award to Susan Wedge, managing partner for the U.S. federal market at IBM Consulting, during a recent meeting. Since 2014, the Wash100 Award has been celebrating the most significant and impactful executives in the government contracting sector. The winners of this elite award are recognized […] More

IBM has awarded Concurrent Technologies Corp. a $51 million subcontract for continuing support to the assistant secretary of the Air Force for energy, installations and environment, or SAF/IE. According to CTC, the job contract is up to July 2029 and follows through a partnership that started in 2008.  The new award calls for CTC to […] More

Lockheed Martin and IBM are working together to boost the development of artificial intelligence-driven innovation. The Bethesda, Maryland-based company said Tuesday the collaboration intends to integrate IBM’s enterprise-ready Granite large language models, or LLMs, into Lockheed Martin’s AI Factory tools. Granite-Enhanced AI Factory The AI Factory is a platform utilized by over 10,000 developers and engineers to […] More

IBM and the state of Illinois have partnered with universities, national laboratories and industries to build the National Quantum Algorithm Center in Chicago to enable quantum information experts, experimentalists and other users to determine how quantum-centric supercomputing could be leveraged to develop new algorithms and address complex industry challenges. The technology company said Thursday the […] More

IBM’s Envizi environmental, social and governance suite has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authorization, enabling federal agencies to automate the capture and management of ESG data. Vanessa Hunt, general manager of technology for the U.S. federal market at IBM, said in a statement Thursday, “Now that our Envizi ESG Suite has received FedRAMP authorization, […] More

IBM has finalized the expansion of a data center in Poughkeepsie, New York, and installed the second IBM Heron quantum processor at the facility as part of efforts to accelerate the discovery of new quantum algorithms. The company said Thursday that the two IBM Heron quantum processors and additional utility-scale systems will work to enable […] More

IBM and NASA, in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have developed an open source artificial intelligence foundation model designed to address challenges in short-term weather and long-term climate projection. The weather and climate foundation model was pre-trained on 40 years of Earth observation data from NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version […] More

A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the opening of IBM’s new flagship office at One Madison Avenue in New York. The new 270,000-square-foot office, which will house over 2,000 New York-area employees, will feature a 22,000-square-foot Innovation Studio, where the latest technologies will be presented through immersive experiences, IBM said Friday. The building’s workspaces, including individual zones, […] More

The Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs has approved the addition of IBM to the list of more than 30 partner institutions of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center. Hosted by Fermilab, SQMS is a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center that focuses on superconducting quantum systems, an area in which […] More

IBM will provide the U.S. Agency for International Development with cybersecurity-related services under a five-year contract with initial funding of $26 million. The company said Wednesday its multidisciplinary team will support USAID’s Cybersecurity Protection and Response program in the Europe and Eurasia region by providing capacity building, incident response, program management, and other services. Efforts are aimed […] More

IBM and NASA’s Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team have developed a set of large language models designed to improve scientific research by providing researchers with improved access to large volumes of specialized knowledge and enabling them to extract relevant information from diverse data sources. NASA said Tuesday the INDUS suite of LLMs contains encoder […] More

Mary Evanston, former vice president and capture leader at ICF, has returned to IBM as federal capture executive nearly a decade after last serving as its partner/executive for defense and intelligence, she announced via a LinkedIn post. She held her previous role at IBM from 2012 to 2015, during which she was responsible for strategy […] More