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Anthony Robbins, vice president of federal at NVIDIA, said autonomous systems, weather prediction models, simulators and other artificial intelligence-based technologies could enable fire departments and first responders to predict and prevent wildfires. “Drones and other autonomous systems will increase the efficacy of the nation’s overall wildfire response and provide a new way to protect firefighters […] More

FiscalNote and Peraton have partnered to combine their platforms and capabilities to help public and private sector customers detect, analyze and address disinformation and other threats in the information environment. FiscalNote said Monday it will merge its Predata platform with Peraton’s methodologies and team of experts in the information domain through the partnership to enable […] More

Two satellites that Northrop Grumman built for satellite communications company SES launched Friday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that took off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Northrop said Friday the SES-18 and SES-19 satellites are based on its GEOStar platform and are part of the efforts of SES to support the Federal […] More

Kyle Tuberson, chief technology officer at ICF, said government agency leaders should earn employee buy-in, establish focused and frequent communication across the organization and prioritize upskilling of staff to prevent digital modernization efforts from stalling out. Tuberson wrote in a commentary published Friday on Federal News Network that agencies should implement a “crawl, walk, run” […] More

Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space business, said the company launched a new unit, dubbed Ignite, to promote innovation and facilitate the maturation of technologies to accelerate the delivery of on-orbit capabilities to government agency customers, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. “What we’ve heard from the traditional customers is: ‘we need better technical […] More

Michael Shrader, intel community vertical executive at Carahsoft Technology, said the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community are launching efforts to advance the adoption of artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud computing to support missions while addressing challenges associated with the implementation of such technologies. Shrader wrote in a blog post published Thursday that […] More

Satellite industry leaders on Tuesday talked about innovations and challenges facing the space economy and industry during a panel discussion at a conference and Intelsat CEO Dave Wajsgras joined the panel to discuss the opportunity that underserved and unserved populations present to the sector, Via Satellite reported. “You’ve got the underserved and unserved populations, geographically […] More

A new survey conducted by Government Executive and underwritten by Denodo has found that only 43 percent of federal government information technology decision-makers and influencers felt very confident that they could govern, protect and manage data, which is one of the key aspects of the Federal Data Strategy. Denodo said Tuesday GovExec polled 200 federal […] More

Michael Shrader, intel community vertical executive at Carahsoft Technology, said information technology workforce development and retention, data management, interoperability and partnerships are some of the challenges the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community should address. Shrader wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that DOD and IC have begun to address competition for IT […] More