Northrop Grumman has entered into an agreement with NVIDIA to access and use the latter's portfolio of artificial intelligence and generative AI platforms to advance the development of advanced systems. The defense contractor said Thursday it will apply NVIDIA's AI technologies and other software platforms, including its 3D graphics collaboration platform Omniverse, across its portfolio of capabilities.

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EchoStar’s subsidiaries, Hughes Network Systems and Boost Mobile, will deliver 5G wireless services and devices to the Department of Defense and other federal agencies under a potential 10-year, $2.7 billion U.S. Navy contract. As part of the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command Spiral 4 program, the companies will facilitate DOD 5G usage across all 50 U.S. states […] More

Accenture Federal Services has secured a 10-year, $789 million contract to supply the U.S. Navy’s Program Executive Office, Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence Program Manager, Warfare Cybersecurity with ashore and afloat SHARKCAGE systems. The systems provide defensive cyberspace operations analytics across Navy networks through its integrated commercial and commercial off-the-shelf hardware and software, the company […] More

Mitre is establishing a new capability to provide researchers and developers the computing power needed to train and test generative artificial intelligence, large language models and other AI tools for use in the federal government. The nonprofit organization said Tuesday it will use NVIDIA‘s DGX SuperPOD system to support its Federal AI Sandbox, which is […] More

The Department of State has approved a potential foreign military sale of WCU-33/B High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile Control Section Modification upgrade kits to the United Arab Emirates. The transaction has an estimated cost of $144 million and covers 149 units of the HCSM upgrade kits, the loan of telemetry kits — which include encryption devices, support […] More

Padraic McDermott has joined the U.S. subsidiary of British multinational aerospace company BAE Systems, where he has taken on the role of vice president of business development. McDermott made the announcement regarding his move to BAE Systems Inc. on LinkedIn on Monday. The new BAE VP previously worked at Science Applications International Corporation, where he […] More

Oracle is now offering NVIDIA‘s end-to-end, cloud-based artificial intelligence software platform to government customers looking to build and deploy secure deep learning workloads. The NVIDIA AI Enterprise is now offered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Supercluster in the Oracle US Government Cloud to help agencies develop and train next-generation AI models designed to address complex workloads, […] More

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. and former Defense Intelligence Agency Director Bob Ashley has joined artificial intelligence firm Primer Technologies as an adviser. Ashley brings to his new role over three decades of military service, which saw him exercise command responsibilities through six combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and take on leadership roles at various organizations, including the U.S. Army Joint Special Operations Command and U.S. Central Command, Primer said Tuesday.

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Executive Mosaic is proud to announce the selection of U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, the newly-appointed director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, as a recipient of the Wash100 Award for 2024 for his dedication to ensuring the delivery of actionable intelligence to those who need it and for his determination to build up DIA as a world-class intelligence agency. This year marks the first time Kruse has won the prestigious award.

The Popular Vote Competition of the 2024 Wash100 Award runs through April 30, 2024. Click here to vote for Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse as one of your favorite GovCon industry leaders!

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NVIDIA has unveiled the GB200 Grace Blackwell superchip. Powered by six new technologies, including Blackwell-architecture GPUs called the B200 and the fifth-generation NVIDIA NVLink, the platform works to enable organizations to build and run real-time generative artificial intelligence, NVIDIA said Monday.

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Oracle will expand its collaboration with NVIDIA to provide customers around the world with products and services that support digital and artificial intelligence sovereignty. Oracle said Monday that these products and services can be achieved through the combination of its own enterprise AI with the full-stack AI platform of NVIDIA and then deployed via a customer's data center, the public cloud or Oracle's cloud offerings.

The transformative power of artificial intelligence will be tackled at the Potomac Officers Club's 5th Annual AI Summit. Register now!

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Steampunk has become a member of the NVIDIA Partner Network, a program designed to assist NVIDIA partners in expediting the delivery of artificial intelligence services to clients. As a solution advisor and consultant within the network, the Virginia-based company said Wednesday it will harness NVIDIA technologies such as graphics processing unit hardware, software development kits, pre-trained AI models and scaled inference platforms.

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