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.

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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.

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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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The State Risk and Authorization Management Program, the regional version of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, will require greater accountability from organizations supporting or providing cybersecurity services to the U.S. government, said Ted Cotterill, Indiana's chief privacy officer and general counsel for the Management Performance Hub. Speaking to Bill Sullivan, vice president and general manager of U.S. federal business at Denodo, Cotterill provided an overview of the StateRAMP model implementation in different states as well as private sector cooperation with the program.

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Certified Small Disadvantaged Business Aleut Management Services, a subsidiary of Aleut Federal, has been awarded a spot on the General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule contract vehicle for special item number 54151S, which covers IT professional services. Aleut Federal said Saturday on LinkedIn that its subsidiary's inclusion in GSA MAS highlights the company's commitment to IT innovation and excellence and will facilitate opportunities to provide various IT services to the government, including network services, database planning and design and programming.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded contracts to Leidos and Raytheon BBN, an RTX company, for services related to the Quantum Augmented Network program. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts, valued at $8.5 million for Leidos and $7.5 million for BBN, is for the development of a hybrid quantum-based communication network specifically for critical infrastructure security, the Department of Defense said Friday.

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A joint venture between EMI Services, a TechFlow subsidiary, and Diversified Service Contracting has secured an eight-year, $76.4 million contract from Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command to provide base operations support services at Naval Base Ventura County in California. DSC-EMI II will perform infrastructure readiness support, environmental support, utilities management, regulatory compliance and other facilities management services, TechFlow said Wednesday.

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Government agencies have to measure up to commercial websites when it comes to the quality of citizen self-service portals as user experiences are set by platforms such as Google and Microsoft, said Ted Cotterill, chief privacy officer of the state of Indiana. In an interview with Bill Sullivan, vice president and general manager of U.S. federal business at Denodo, Cotterill discussed the “moving target” that is online government services and how agencies can refine such portals.

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Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary announced the completion of a Tactically Responsive Space mission for the U.S. Space Force, called VICTUS NOX, demonstrating a capability for rapid on-orbit response to a national security threat.

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