Constellation Network to Help USAF Connect Legacy Systems to Cloud
Blockchain firm Constellation Network has secured a contract to help the U.S. Air Force provide interoperability capability between legacy systems and newer data technologies.
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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.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine, APL Create Healthcare Research Data Analytics Tool
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has released a tool designed to analyze huge amounts of data for research efforts aimed at helping clinicians improve patient care and medical decisions.
Booz Allen Execs: Health Agencies Should Learn From IC to Harness the Power of Big Data
Booz Allen Hamilton executives wrote in an article published Thursday on The New England Journal of Medicine that federal health care agencies should leverage data science tools and lessons from the intelligence community to optimize big data in order to improve care quality and reduce costs. Steve Escaravage, a senior vice president and head of Booz Allen’s digital, analytics and strategy practice, co-wrote the piece with Kevin Vigilante, an executive VP and a health business leader at the company; and Mike McConnell, a senior executive adviser at Booz Allen.
Thales Report: Agencies Use Sensitive Data in Cloud, Other Tech Environments; Nick Jovanovic Quoted
A new report by Thales says 98 percent of U.S. federal government respondents said they are using sensitive data with digitally transformative technologies such as cloud, internet of things, big data and blockchain. The 2019 Thales Data Threat Report – Federal Edition showed that less than a third of the respondents are adopting data encryption within those tech environments, the company said Wednesday.
NCI Forms Strategic AI Partnership with Machine Learning Company Tanjo
NCI Information Systems announced a strategic partnership with Tanjo, Inc. on Tuesday. NCI will leverage Tanjo’s proprietary machine learning technology to combine new data analytics methods with its artificial intelligence platform Shai (Scaling Humans with Artificial Intelligence) to deliver real-time insights and actionable intelligence to federal customers. More
Cloudera’s Shaun Bierweiler: State, Local Governments Need to Harness Big Data via Strategy Implementation
Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Cloudera, has said state and local government agencies should have strategies in place to leverage big data in order to facilitate the delivery of citizen services.
Federal Sales Vet Shannon Silverstein to Lead Elastic’s Homeland Mission Support
Shannon Silverstein, a 20-year sales professional focused on the law enforcement community, has joined Mountain View, Calif.-based software company Elastic as director for homeland mission support, G2Xchange ETC reported Wednesday.
Tiffanny Gates, Novetta CEO, Inducted Into 2019 Wash100 for Increasing Novetta’s Workforce Through Big Data, IT and Cloud-Based Platforms
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Tiffanny Gates, president and CEO of Novetta, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for her efforts to increase the company’s workforce by exploring cloud-based platforms, big data and information technology. This marks her first Wash100 award.
Jill Singer, AT&T National Security VP, Chosen to 2019 Wash100 for Efforts to Improve Capabilities With AI, Big Data
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Jill Singer, vice president of national security at AT&T’s global public sector solutions unit, has been selected for the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for her vision to improve the company’s position in artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning. This marks her fourth Wash100 win.
NOAA to Solicit for High Performance Computing Services in 2019
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is looking to solicit for high performance computing services to support the agency’s weather and climate services. NOAA said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice that it intends to award a potential 10-year, $505.2M contract by Feb. 14, 2020, for services under the Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System program. The contractor will […] More
IBM to Help Maintain Army Enterprise Financial System
IBM has received a two-year, $92.1M contract modification to support a web-based enterprise resource planning system the U.S. Army uses to manage financial, asset and accounting functions. The Department of Defense said Friday the company will provide services and platforms necessary to maintain the Army’s General Fund Enterprise Business System. The Army will obligate $15.2M at the time […] More