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The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has released the first part of “Governing in the Age of AI: The Leader’s Guide to Artificial-Intelligence Technical Strategy,” which it had co-authored with technology company SandboxAQ. The purpose of the guide is to help governments make the most of artificial intelligence and achieve AI-related goals, SandboxAQ said […] More
Amazon is investing over $100 billion over the next ten years on data centers with the ultimate aim of taking advantage of growing demand for artificial intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. AI requires the computational power offered by the cloud and so is expected to drive demand for cloud services. Amazon projects AI […] More
Amazon Web Services Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector Dave Levy said in a recent interview that although federal agencies are in the early stages of adopting generative artificial intelligence, a period of breakthroughs is coming that will see an acceleration in the technology’s use, FedScoop reported Friday. The 2024 Wash100 awardee told the publication […] More
The FBI has awarded ECS, the federal government segment of IT services provider ASGN, a spot on the Information Technology Supplies and Support Services 2nd Generation multiple-award contract vehicle. ITSSS-2, which features a maximum value of $8 billion and a potential period of performance of eight years, will be used by the FBI and other […] More
General Dynamics Mission Systems earlier this year demonstrated a space-based virtual receiver processor with a maturity of technology readiness level 9. The demonstration was carried out on-orbit on an electronically steerable antenna payload provided by Lockheed Martin, GDMS said Thursday. The VRP works to deliver multiple waveform-agnostic receivers in a single component and provides channels […] More
Intel Federal‘s Steve Orrin believes advances in artificial intelligence can provide the military with benefits beyond object identification, offering, instead, enhanced situational awareness by making it possible to process data from various sources and draw connections that human analysts might otherwise miss. To realize these benefits, however, AI processing would have to take place at […] More
Discussions are in progress for a new investment into Anduril Industries that could result in the defense sector startup being valued at $14 billion in total, including previous funding, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Unnamed sources have revealed that Anduril seeks to raise $1.5 billion in the funding round, which is set to be co-led by Founders […] More
Federal agencies will need a new kind of chief technology officer to resolve the conflict between an increasing reliance on advanced technologies to deliver exceptional digital experiences and the large environmental footprint accompanying their use, according to Steve Orrin, CTO at Intel Federal. To achieve this goal, this new kind of CTO, dubbed the “Sustainable […] More
MetTel Vice President of Public Sector Sales and Solution Architecture Don Parente said his company is “working feverishly” to help the United States Postal Service retire its legacy copper-based plain old telephone service, Fierce Network reported Monday. MetTel is carrying out the work under a contract it had received from the USPS, which involves the […] More
Service-disabled veteran-owned small business EXPANSIA, a provider of strategy and integration consulting services, has joined the Military Spouse Employment Partnership. MSEP is a Department of Defense initiative that works to connect military spouses with partner employers for recruitment purposes, EXPANSIA said Thursday. The initiative was established in 2011 and has facilitated the employment of over […] More
Palantir Technologies will provide support for the Starlab commercial space station as a strategic partner to Starlab Space, a joint venture involving Airbus, MDA Space, Mitsubishi Corporation and Voyager Space. Starlab Space said Monday that it will work with Palantir to enhance the space station’s operations using digital twins and artificial intelligence technologies. Palantir will […] More
Researchers working on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Quantum Benchmarking program have released pre-prints of the initial results of their effort to develop scientifically rigorous metrics that can be used to measure the impact of quantum computers on key computational challenges. The findings cover work done during phase 2 of the program, which saw […] More
