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  • Northrop Grumman Uses Low-Cost Target for Army Missile Defense Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman Uses Low-Cost Target for Army Missile Defense Tests

    Northrop Grumman deployed low-cost target vehicles in tests on the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s capabilities. Nine intercept vehicles, called “Zombie” targets for their repurposed demilitarized rocket motors, were launched during the USASMDC LTZ-3 test mission, the company said. The targets, tagged as “Black Dagger,” were developed in collaboration with Teledyne Brown Engineering […] More

  • Lockheed Martin, IBM to Enhance AI Factory Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin, IBM to Enhance AI Factory Tools

    Lockheed Martin and IBM are working together to boost the development of artificial intelligence-driven innovation. The Bethesda, Maryland-based company said Tuesday the collaboration intends to integrate IBM’s enterprise-ready Granite large language models, or LLMs, into Lockheed Martin’s AI Factory tools. Granite-Enhanced AI Factory The AI Factory is a platform utilized by over 10,000 developers and engineers to […] More

  • Joe Shepherd Joins Guidehouse as Defense & Intelligence Partner - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joe Shepherd Joins Guidehouse as Defense & Intelligence Partner

    Global consultancy firm Guidehouse has appointed Joe Shepherd as defense and intelligence partner, bringing to the post more than two decades of experience supporting federal defense clients and the defense industrial base. In his new role, Shepherd will provide military customers with cutting-edge services to advance the agenda of increasing collaborations with Department of Defense […] More

  • ICEYE Secures Additional $65M From Extended Growth Funding Round - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICEYE Secures Additional $65M From Extended Growth Funding Round

    ICEYE, an Earth observation company known for its synthetic aperture radar, or SAR, satellite operations, announced extending an earlier growth funding round and securing an additional $65 million from Solidium Oy-managed funds, BlackRock, Seraphim and other investors. In a Wednesday press release, Susan Repo, chief financial officer at ICEYE, said, “ICEYE has experienced unwavering momentum […] More

  • Cloudera Offering Secures FedRAMP Moderate Authority to Operate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cloudera Offering Secures FedRAMP Moderate Authority to Operate

    Cloudera has secured Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program moderate authorization for its cloud-based native data management and artificial intelligence offering tailored to the government sector. The California-based company said Wednesday that the Department of Veterans Affairs sponsored the authorization, enabling it to provide its Cloudera For Government product to the VA and other federal agencies. […] More

  • Allison Campitelli Named CEO of International SOS' Government Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Allison Campitelli Named CEO of International SOS’ Government Services

    Allison Campitelli, a program operations professional, has been appointed CEO of Government Services US, a business of International SOS, the executive shared on LinkedIn Monday. Allison Campitelli Career at A Glance Before joining Government Services US, Campitelli served as senior vice president of operations of Vision Technologies, where she spearheaded the audiovisual, enterprise structured cabling and professional […] More

  • SandboxAQ Receives Over $300M for LQM & AI Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SandboxAQ Receives Over $300M for LQM & AI Development

    SandboxAQ has received over $300 million in funding to develop the company’s large quantitative models and artificial intelligence services. Along with advancing SandboxAQ’s LQMs, the new investment will help the company enhance AI applications in materials science, cybersecurity, navigation, medical devices and drug discovery, SandboxAQ told ExecutiveBiz Wednesday. The funding round has valued the company […] More

  • Why Spectrum Sharing is Critical for the Future of Connectivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Why Spectrum Sharing is Critical for the Future of Connectivity

    The increasing demand for wireless communication has brought the limited availability of the electromagnetic spectrum into sharp focus. From 5G and autonomous technologies to military applications and satellite communications, the competition for spectrum between public and private sector entities has reached an all-time high. As a result, spectrum sharing is emerging as an innovative solution […] More

  • Bill Olsen Named VP of Emerging Markets at Chevo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Olsen Named VP of Emerging Markets at Chevo

    Bill Olsen, a 24-year industry veteran, has been appointed vice president of the emerging markets account at Chevo Consulting. The Rockville, Maryland-based company said Tuesday the business development and consulting professional will manage the company’s current work at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior, Securities and Exchange Commission and National Science Foundation. Olsen will be responsible […] More

  • MuleSoft's David Egts on Artificial Intelligence Agents - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MuleSoft’s David Egts on Artificial Intelligence Agents

    David Egts, field chief technology officer for the public sector at MuleSoft, believes that artificial intelligence agents can revolutionize business process but only if they are seamlessly integrated into an organization’s existing systems and data sources. What Are AI Agents? Egts made this prediction in an article published Tuesday on the MuleSoft Blog, where he […] More

  • Appian's Matt Beran: Software Reuse Could Help Accelerate Government Digital Transformation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Appian’s Matt Beran: Software Reuse Could Help Accelerate Government Digital Transformation

    Matt Beran, industry lead for global defense and intelligence at Appian, said government agencies looking to speed up their digital transformation initiatives and ensure compliance with the Clinger-Cohen Act and other regulations should consider reusing existing software platforms. “By prioritizing and pursuing software reuse wherever possible, agency CIOs and their teams — and the mission […] More

  • TRM Labs Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization for Blockchain Intelligence Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TRM Labs Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization for Blockchain Intelligence Tools

    The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has conferred the high authorization designation to TRM Labs, a provider of blockchain intelligence. The San Francisco, California-headquartered company said Tuesday that its blockchain intelligence tools are now available to federal agencies through the FedRAMP Marketplace. TRM Labs’ Blockchain Intelligence TRM Labs offers tools that enable government agencies […] More