Processing....
Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.
A General Dynamics Information Technology study has found that 58 percent of federal government leaders consider scalability issues as the primary challenge to moving artificial intelligence projects from the pilot phase to production. GDIT said Thursday its digital consulting practice polled 325 defense, intelligence and civilian agency officials and experts for the AI in Full […] More
Microsoft has launched a generative artificial intelligence model designed to help U.S. intelligence agencies process and analyze large volumes of classified information without relying on the internet, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. William Chappell, chief technology officer for strategic missions and technology at Microsoft, said his team took 18 months to develop the GPT4-based large language model, […] More
Rocket Lab USA has started the test campaign for a new 3D-printed reusable engine for its Neutron medium-lift rocket at its test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The company said Monday the test campaign was initiated following the completion of the first full assembly of the Archimedes rocket engine. The Archimedes engine, […] More
ASRC Federal and the Defense Logistics Agency have signed a partnership agreement to push the implementation of joint strategies and process improvements to strengthen supply chain support to U.S. warfighters. The company said Tuesday the partnership with DLA aims to improve administrative timeliness, customer deliverables and responsiveness to the armed forces through the development of […] 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
Maxar Intelligence and Lockheed Martin will streamline the purchase and delivery of geospatial products for the F-35 fighter jet’s flight simulation and training platform under a new agreement. Maxar said Monday the long-term agreement with Lockheed seeks to standardize licensing, pricing and requirements for its products, including Dynamic imagery basemaps and Precision3D Data Suite, as […] More
The General Services Administration has released a draft solicitation for the first pool of the potential eight-year Ascend blanket purchase agreement to meet the U.S. federal government’s needs for cloud services and related information technology professional services. The Ascend BPA is divided into three pools and Pool 1 focuses on infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service cloud offerings, […] More
Oracle has fully deployed the MHS Genesis electronic health record system at all Department of Defense garrison facilities worldwide, supporting over 197,200 end users, more than 3,800 locations and over 9.5 million DOD beneficiaries across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific. The company said Friday the milestone was reached after the federal EHR system went live […] More
Epiq Solutions will integrate DeepSig‘s artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies with its software-defined radios under a partnership with the AI-native wireless communications tech provider as part of efforts to improve signal intelligence, direction finding and communications. Epiq Solutions said Thursday its Matchstiq G-Series and Matchstiq X40 SDR platforms will be equipped with DeepSig’s OmniSIG […] More
SAP National Security Services has received Impact Level 4 provisional authorization from the Defense Information and Systems Agency for its cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform. SAP NS2 said Thursday the DISA IL4 authorization allows it to deploy the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition ERP offering within the Department of Defense’s cloud environment to support enterprise […] More
Boeing demonstrated virtually the capability of its manned-unmanned teaming software to perform aerial refueling missions using a digital F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet and an MQ-25 Stingray drone. Boeing said Wednesday that a Super Hornet pilot tested the MUM-T software by sending commands to the MQ-25 drone to refuel the fighter jet during a demonstration […] More
Victor Foulk, vice president of emerging technologies at CGI Federal, said chief AI officers and other federal agency leaders should consider three principles as they design and implement their artificial intelligence programs to strike a balance between mission execution and performance and security risks of implementing AI tools. In a blog post published Tuesday, Foulk […] More
