Big Data & Analytics News

Some national security experts have pointed to a new analytics tool dubbed “graph technology” as a means to help identify signs of cyber attacks before they occur, CNN reported Thursday. Nicole Gaouette writes graph technology works to identify how data is connected to form algorithms that can spot irregularities based on previous patterns. Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National […] More

General Atomics has introduced a software platform designed to manage big data workloads. The company said Thursday Nirvana 5.0 works to help clients in energy exploration, scientific research and media sectors manage data-intensive workflows as well as locate information through the use of workflow-defined metadata. General Atomics’ metadata software is designed to consolidate multiple storage silos into […] More

DLT Solutions has agreed to market and offer machine intelligence company Nutonian‘s data science products and services in the public sector market. DLT Solutions said Wednesday Nutonian designed its Eureqa artificial intelligence-powered modeling engine to automatically build and interprets predictive models in an effort to help scientists identify cause and effect relationships within data structures. Nutonian aims to help make data science more precise […] More

Berico Technologies has landed a potential five-year, $35 million task order from the Defense Intelligence Agency to perform development, integration and systems operations and maintenance work on DIA’s applications. Berico said Monday the order includes options and falls under the Enhanced Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise contract vehicle. DIA selected 50 companies for the E-SITE vehicle in July […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has asked industry to submit  proposals for the development of an automated tools to detect activity, objects and people in multi-camera streaming videos. IARPA said in a broad agency announcement posted Sept. 13 on FedBizOpps that it plans to implement Deep Intermodal Video Analytics tools for forensic analysis and real-time alerting applications. The three-phase DIVA program also seeks […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton has updated the company’s analytics platform to include a machine-learning algorithm for commercial and government clients to gain insight from data. A team of more than 600 Booz Allen data scientists worked to develop algorithms in an effort to help maintain vehicle safety, expand access to vaccines and combat human trafficking activities with the Sailfish technology, the company said Thursday. […] More

D-Wave Systems will unveil additional details of its latest quantum computing platform that features a new 2000-qubit processor at an inaugural users group conference Wednesday and Thursday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. D-Wave said Tuesday the processor has doubled the amount of qubits from the previous D-Wave 2X system and introduces control features that work to configure the quantum computational process. Jeremy […] More

OGSystems will team with Planet to build a location-based intelligence platform that combines commercial remote sensing, big data and cognitive analytics. The companies said Monday the BlueGlass platform will work to offer real-time insights delivered through situational awareness, anomaly alerting and reporting on activities that could lead to potential risks to user operations. “OGSystems’ vision for BlueGlass was born out of our […] More

In-Q-Tel has entered into a strategic investment and technology development agreement with Zoomdata as the companies seek to help address the intelligence community’s big data management requirements with the latter’s visual analytics platform. The agreement comes a month after Zoomdata began to offer its technology to the IC via an Amazon Web Services-hosted marketplace of software products and developers […] More