Artificial Intelligence

1st Edge was tapped by the U.S. Army to continue developing artificial intelligence-powered software under a $9.7 million small business contract that seeks to support the technology’s potential application to missile defense. The company said Monday it will further work on the Pragmatic AI and New Technology program, which automates and accelerates data processing to […] More

NVIDIA and Lockheed Martin are jointly working on efforts that seek to help governments address wildfires by responding to and predicting the said disaster with the use of artificial intelligence and simulation capability. Anthony Robbins, vice president of the federal business at NVIDIA and a four-time Wash100 Award recipient, wrote in a blog post published […] More

VisibleThread has introduced a capability that uses artificial intelligence to identify potential risk and compliance issues on contracting-related documents. The Baltimore, Maryland-based language analysis company said Monday the VT Docs 4.0 featuring New Discovery is designed to help proposal teams ensure compliance with government contracting requirements. The document analysis software works to enable users to […] More

Frontier Development Lab, a public/private partnership with NASA, commercial artificial intelligence partners and private sector companies, worked with Intel AI Mentors to study how radiation exposure can physiologically affect astronauts. Intel said Monday its AI technology helped the SETI Institute-hosted lab develop an algorithm to identify cancer biomarkers based on radiation exposure data of both […] More

A Veritone-developed artificial intelligence platform for government users has obtained authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and the expanded, enterprise-wide authority to operate extends the aiWARE Government platform’s services for use in all 59 components of the Department of Justice and accelerates federal cloud adoption. The expanded ATO also includes support for Microsoft […] More

Artificial intelligence company 1st Edge has secured a three-year, $46 million other transaction authority award to develop AI technologies for the U.S. Army’s missile defense programs. Under the Pragmatic AI and New Technology effort, the company will prototype software that uses AI and machine learning to simplify missile defense programs, 1st Edge said Tuesday. The […] More

The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking white papers as part of its plan to award a total of $49 million for the acquisition of system architectures that use artificial intelligence and machine learning to track targets. AFRL said Wednesday in a SAM.gov notice it will issue multiple, individual awards valued between $450,000 and $5 […] More

Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business is building explainable machine learning and artificial intelligence systems that could support the missions of users in national security, space, cybersecurity, weather prediction and other high-stakes environments. The company said Tuesday its AI platforms could help weather forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict the path of […] More

Finland-based MarshallAI bagged the top spot on the Department of Defense’s first international tri-service competition, which was aimed at recognizing the most advanced artificial intelligence technologies to be used for rapid decision making in the service. The company, which received $70,000, was followed by LatticeFlow at second place with $50,000, and Cyber Defense Service at […] More

GigaIO, a provider of data center architecture for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing applications, gathered $14.7 million from a Series B financing round led by Impact Venture Capital. The company said Thursday it will use the investment to expand the company’s market and grow its partner network. GigaIO will further invest in customer development and […] More