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Redhorse Corp. has secured a basic ordering agreement with the Department of Defense's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office to deliver artificial intelligence-related support services to DOD agencies. The AI Talent 2.0 BOA has a five-year ordering period and includes individual task orders for program and technical management support services and products.
Drew Epperson, vice president for federal engineering at Palo Alto Networks, said the move to zero trust backed by the adoption of automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning tools could enable public sector organizations to provide a better user experience. In a video interview posted on the Carahsoft website, Epperson cited how the use of a cloud-based secure access service edge platform could benefit remote users when it comes to accessing applications.
All Department of Justice agencies will now be able to purchase artificial intelligence-powered software and professional services from Veritone under a $15 million blanket purchase agreement. Veritone software and services could support DOJ's early case assessment activities by streamlining transcription, translation, finding, censoring and extracting evidence from large amounts of data.
Deloitte and Google's public sector arm have expanded their strategic alliance to launch a new portfolio of artificial intelligence-powered technologies for government and higher education. Under the partnership, Deloitte will use Google Cloud's generative AI, machine learning and data analytics capabilities to help public sector agencies boost engagement with constituencies, enhance geospatial scenario planning and monitoring and generate mission-driven insights, the professional services provider said Tuesday.
Shield Capital has announced the final closing of its inaugural fund focused on early-stage venture capital investments. Upon its closing, Shield Capital Fund I, L.P. was oversubscribed at 55 percent above target and had obtained $186 million in capital commitments from institutional and private investors, Shield Capital said.
The Air Force Research Laboratory has expanded its partnership with BigBear.ai to develop composable collaborative planning technology to accelerate military planning processes. BigBear.ai said Monday it will continue to use its artificial intelligence-powered platforms to help condense the traditional operational planning timeframe from two years to less than one month, provide real-time resource data to joint planners and visualize the impacts of simultaneous plan execution.
Ricardo Lorenzo, chief technology officer at Parsons, said the company helps military customers build, operationalize and employ artificial intelligence systems for multi-domain missions. According to Lorenzo, Parsons builds operational AI capabilities designed to function within real-world hardware and communications-constrained environments, interact with legacy software systems and operate on disparate and unreliable sensor feeds.
Booz Allen Hamilton says it is more determined to lead in deploying artificial intelligence for the federal government. The management and technology consulting firm announced on Wednesday new insights from its AI portfolio and the new stack of AI capabilities that can help accelerate the ability to achieve critical mission success.
Wireless threat monitoring company LOCH Technologies has acquired software company Avirtek. With the transaction complete, LOCH said Monday it would work to enable a data detection and response capability by integrating Avirtek's autonomic cybersecurity technology into its AirShield platform.
Domino Data Lab and Carahsoft Technology will partner to provide safe and cost-effective advancement in federal artificial intelligence capabilities. As Master Government Aggregator in the partnership, Carahsoft said Wednesday that it will make Domino's enterprise AI platform available to the public sector through reseller partners and various government vehicles, including NASA's Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract.
Experts say shadow artificial intelligence systems are increasingly being deployed in organizations, exposing them to security, legal and financial risks, according to an article in Information Week. Such AI programs emerge when well-intentioned software engineers try out programs without the authorization of management. They often end up being part of processes without oversight.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected four teams for a new program aimed at developing algorithms and architectures as the foundation for trustworthy artificial intelligence systems. The Assured Neuro Symbolic Learning and Reasoning program will focus on combining data-driven machine learning and traditional symbolic reasoning to build robust and reliable autonomous systems, DARPA said Monday.
