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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.
A new MeriTalk report has found that 80 percent of information technology leaders at the Defense Department said their agency needs to ramp up cloud adoption to execute their missions and keep up the military’s technical edge. MeriTalk said Tuesday the “Innovation Imperative: The Drive to Modernize DoD” report underwritten by Red Hat and Amazon Web […] More
The Internal Revenue Service has asked industry to submit information on artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, data analytics and machine learning algorithms or methods intended to counter cyber and insider threats. IRS said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday it seeks an analytical platform that can support local and global settings, constantly learn about environments, triage alerts, provide investigation […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton works with soldiers to help them collect data and analyze combat indicators with the use of artificial intelligence technology, Nvidia reported Saturday. Aaron Sant-Miller, lead data scientist at Booz Allen, said in an interview that aired on Nvidia’s AI Podcast the company’s analysts receive overhead video feeds and fuse intelligence for military personnel to manage a […] More
Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of U.S. public sector at Hortonworks, told Datanami in an interview published Tuesday about the advantage of adopting an open approach to technology development in the big data space. “When you think about integration points, and the various technologies and players coming to market, if you don’t have an open approach and […] More
Cambridge International Systems has begun offering information technology services to support the Navy and Joint Military Medical Community of Interest by modernizing healthcare for U.S. warfighters and their families. The Arlington, Va.-based firm said Tuesday it’s helping the Navy and Joint Medicine MEDCOI adopt new technologies such as information exchange and big data, Internet-of-Things capabilities and virtual […] More
A new Deloitte survey has found that only 21 percent of public sector respondents believe their agencies’ C-suite leaders collaborate on strategic projects and initiatives. “With only 21 percent of government respondents saying that their C-suite leaders work together on strategic projects, it is not surprising that government respondents also had low scores related to […] More
Grant Thornton’s public sector business and Microsoft have expanded their partnership to help federal agencies generate insights from data and comply with provisions of the administration’s Management Agenda and other regulations that seek to advance transparency and efficiency. Greg Myers, vice president of Microsoft’s federal business, said in a statement published Thursday the company will […] More
When President Trump signed the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act into law in December, he also codified the Modernizing Government Technology Act, an amendment allowing agencies greater freedom in using allocated funds to spur digital transformation. That ongoing initiative has come as the public and private sectors continue to grapple with a variety of IT […] More
CIA plans to team up with companies to perform open-source intelligence and big data experiments using an Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. An updated acquisition schedule posted May 7 says the agency will use the C2SÂ unclassified cloud platform for the five-year Mesa Verde project that will analyze large data workloads and […] More
Hitachi Vantara has introduced artificial intelligence operations software offerings and flash storage systems designed to help customers modernize data centers. The company said Wednesday it launched Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor, Hitachi Automation Director and Hitachi Data Instance Director offerings as part of its AI operations software platforms portfolio. HIAA works to predict and address data center requirements through […] More
Engility has unveiled a technology platform designed to help intelligence and defense agencies examine huge amounts of data and turn information into actionable insights. MetaSift is based on an open architecture and works to help analysts automate data management processes as well as identify content linkages, Engility said Monday. The data analytics platform debuted at the […] More
Boeing’s Tapestry Solutions subsidiary has rolled out its Enterprise Sensor Integration software system at BAE Systems’ facility in Nashua, New Hampshire, to help the British firm modernize its manufacturing infrastructure. Boeing said Monday it integrated Impinj Speedway radio frequency identification readers, Mojix STAR wide-area RFID sensors and other enterprise resource planning and asset management or ordering […] More
