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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Learn about the latest developments regarding the use of big data and analytics in the public sector as well as insights from experts in the government contracting industry.
Hewlett-Packard has introduced a global business segment that focuses on big data and high-performance computing with manufacturing and oil and gas as some of its key target growth areas, HPCwire reported Thursday. William Mannel, vice president and general manager of the HPC and big data business unit at HP, said he believes there is more […] More
IBM and the British government have pumped a total of $479.7 million in investments into cognitive computing and big data research, Computerworld UK reported Thursday. Margi Murphy writes the amount is meant to expand the Hartree Center at Daresbury. The facility will have access to IBM’s Watson cognitive computer, intellectual property assets and researchers under the technology agreement, […] More
The U.S. Air Force is looking for potential sources of commercial off-the-shelf earned value management software to support project management functions for technical, schedule and financial operations. The service said in a notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps that it is conducting market research for EVM technology that can operate alongside the currently used wInsight Analytics software from […] More
Battelle is offering a new service that provides predictive analytics and risk mitigation functions to help companies monitor their markets and make informed business decisions amid emerging market trends. The company said Monday the SmartVision tool works to track information such as brand perception and consumer sentiment and analyze how these and emerging science can shape the marketplace and […] More
Exelis has integrated its ENVI image analysis tool into a DigitalGlobe cloud-based big data platform with the goal of helping government, academic and commercial users gain insights from geospatial information. The combined offering is designed to offer clients access to Exelis’ analytics software and DigitalGlobe’s catalog of high-resolution satellite imagery collected over a 15-year period, […] More
The Commerce Department will work with Amazon.com, Google, IBM, Microsoft and the Open Cloud Consortium on a big data project to figure out how to apply environmental data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for efforts to support the U.S. economy. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced the cooperative research and development agreements Tuesday at the American Meteorological Society forum. “As America’s data agency, we are […] More
Information Builders has entered into an alliance with MapR Technologies to provide enterprise customers with a combination of the former’s business intelligence and analytics software and MapR’s Apache Hadoop distribution platform. The companies said Wednesday the partnership works to manage data integrity to generate insights from “impactful” analytics. Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders, said the […] More
Northrop Grumman‘s partnership with the University of Maryland-Baltimore County under the UMBC Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research consortium will expand from cybersecurity research to health data analytics. The company said Tuesday the collaboration supports CHMPR’s goal to address challenges in productivity, scalability and performance related to the use of big data analytics in areas such as cyber and health. […] More
TechFlow has awarded a subcontract to Intellicheck Mobilisa for the design, prototyping, deployment and commercialization of a big data analytics tool that the U.S. Navy will use to study the energy usage of networked devices. Intellicheck said Tuesday the analytics system will work to capture energy use data for analysis, predict future usage and generate insights into reducing energy consumption using […] More
Satellite and geospatial imagery vendors such as DigitalGlobe have worked to utilize streaming technologies for data mining and analytics operations in environments with high volumes of available data, TechTarget reported Wednesday. Craig Stedman writes that the company has worked to integrate big data, cloud computing and stream processing technologies to deliver real-time analytics. DigitalGlobe’s InsightCloud service, which has gone through beta tests and will be […] More
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has tapped into Cloudera big data technology as part of an initiative to monitor securities trading activities in the United States. Cloudera said Tuesday that FINRA uses a regulatory infrastructure to merge data feeds from more than 4,000 securities companies and stock exchanges each day to uncover market manipulation incidents. The […] More
BAE Systems‘ applied intelligence business has launched a tool that works to facilitate prescriptive and predictive analytics capabilities for communications service providers to guide customer value management and investment activities. The company said Monday its CommsReveal features machine learning and simulation functions to generate insights from CSP customer behavior, prescribe action to address customer churn and investment concerns, and forecast the corresponding […] More
