Government Technology

NextGen Federal Systems has received a two-year contract with Air Force Research Laboratory to help defense and intelligence communities analyze and transmit large amounts of weather data. The company said Thursday it will work to develop a weather analysis-as-a-service that would streamline analytical and dissemination processes for high-resolution weather data around the globe. AFRL awarded the contract under the Small Business Innovation Research program.

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Voyager Maritime Alliance Group has collaborated with Simrad Yachting to install a navigation system on the lead guided missile destroyer ship of the U.S. Navy's Zumwalt class.

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AT&T has developed updates and new offerings to support the First Responder Network Authority’s emergency response operations.

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Arlington, Va-based information technology company eGlobalTech has updated an open source platform designed to help government customers automate the process of deploying applications onto a cloud computing environment.

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Josh Elliot, principal and director of artificial intelligence at Booz Allen Hamilton, told Datanami in an interview published Thursday about the company’s involvement in deep learning programs within the federal government. “We have probably 60 or more [projects] right now, today, active in deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence types of projects across the federal government right now,” Elliot told the publication at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif.

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Maxar Technologies has agreed to integrate its NaturalVue 2.0 global image mosaic and National Urban Change Indicator with Esri’s collection of maps dubbed ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World on the cloud-based ArcGIS Online geospatial platform. Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar, said in a statement published Thursday the addition of NICU and NaturalVue 2.0 to the ArcGIS Online platform provides geographic information system professionals the ability to address global geospatial problems.

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Lookout's mobile security application has been listed in the First Responder Network Authority catalog of apps designed for use by first responders.

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Keeper Technology has partnered with a subsidiary of Seagate Technology to build and offer a new software-defined storage tool to government and commercial customers.

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WidePoint has migrated its telecommunications management platform to Amazon Web Service's GovCloud, a government-dedicated cloud computing service region.

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The U.S. Army’s Medical Research and Materiel Command has selected Charles River Analytics to integrate sensing and autonomous tools into a robotic system designed to evacuate casualties from a combat zone.

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LSI and SAP National Security Services have partnered to offer the latter's Secure HANA Cloud platform to local and state government agencies as well as higher education customers.

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Amazon Web Services has unveiled an object-based storage designed to help government and commercial clients retain data in cloud computing environments.

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