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Srini Iyer, senior vice president and chief technology officer for the health and civil sector at Leidos, said that instead of using a foundational artificial intelligence model, the company has built a health care application around a domain-specific generative AI model to further speed up the approval processing time for disability benefits. Leidos said Wednesday […] More
The Office of Personnel Management has begun soliciting proposals for a potential five-year contract to provide enterprise cyber, infrastructure and operations support services to the Office of the Chief Information Officer. The ECIOSS procurement effort aims to consolidate the network and cybersecurity functional requirements of OCIO’s information technology operating systems and cybersecurity divisions into a […] More
NASA is awarding over 200 small business teams a total of $44.85 million in funding under the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program. NASA said Tuesday that each SBIR/STTR beneficiary will receive $150,000, which they will use to establish the feasibility and merit of the technology they are innovating to address […] More
Apex, a spacecraft manufacturing company, announced completing its Series B funding round and securing $95 million. The investor group, led by XYZ Venture Capital, co-led by CRV and joined by other investors provided the new funding, the Los Angeles-based company said Wednesday. Ian Cinnamon, CEO and founder of Apex, said, “The West cannot achieve the […] More
Technology industry veteran William Vass has been selected to succeed Susan Penfield as chief technology officer of Booz Allen Hamilton. Beginning June 17, Vass will lead the development of Booz Allen’s mission-focused artificial intelligence, cyber, software and data-centric offerings, the firm announced from its McLean, Virginia headquarters on Wednesday. “As we bring transformative technologies to missions of national importance […] More
Core4ce will help the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic provide the Department of Defense with full-scale Cyber Security Service Provider services over a five-year period. The company said Tuesday it received a $90 million other transaction authority production contract to support CSSP operational environments across the NIWC network. Core4ce will provide NIWC Atlantic with engineering, […] More
Jim Lee, a former executive at Maxar Technologies, was named senior vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Seagate Technology. The data storage innovator said Monday Lee was SVP, general counsel and corporate secretary during his five-year stint at Maxar and will now lead Seagate’s legal team in his new role. He will […] More
KBR‘s government services business unit has secured a potential five-year, $75.3 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from NASA for safety and mission assurance, audits, assessments and analysis services. The SA3 contract covers safety assessments and hazard analysis, risk analysis and management, reliability and maintainability analysis, supply chain data management and analytics, information systems support, training and outreach, […] More
The board of directors at battery technology provider EnerSys will nominate Lauren Knausenberger, executive vice president and chief innovation officer at Science Applications International Corp. and a previous Wash100 awardee, as a class II director at the board’s annual meeting. Arthur Katsaros, chair of the board, said in a statement published Tuesday that Knausenberger is […] More
Ultra Intelligence & Communications will provide rekey and remote management system updates for the U.S. Air Force’s fielded communications security devices under an other transaction authority agreement. The company said Tuesday the $31.9 million award issued through the OTA with Consortium Management Group covers the development of a high-assurance encryptor to facilitate secure network distribution […] More
Xage Security has signed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Secure by Design Pledge to show its commitment to taking measurable actions to meet the pledge’s goals of building cybersecurity into the design and production of technology products. In a blog post published Tuesday on the company’s website, Roman Arutyunov, co-founder and senior vice president […] More
Northrop Grumman has awarded Leonardo DRS a new full-rate production contract for additional Quantum Cascade Laser systems. Leonardo DRS said Monday that QCL is a commercial off-the-shelf laser that enables the Common Infrared Countermeasure system, a fifth-generation, laser-based infrared capability that works to protect U.S. Army rotary-wing aircraft by tracking and defeating incoming missiles. Having […] More
