The final month of voting for the top 30 rankings of the Wash100 Award has arrived and the last day for you to contribute – April 30 – is closing in fast. The order of the top 30 executives is still in motion, with several executives gaining a late-in-the-game surge in momentum. Don’t wait to have […] More

Government customers of Carahsoft Technology will be able to purchase CalypsoAI‘s platform for testing, evaluating, verifying and validating the performance of artificial intelligence and machine learning models under a public sector distribution partnership between the two companies. According to a joint statement published Thursday, Carahsoft’s reseller partners and governmentwide acquisition contracts will carry the CalypsoAI […] More

An Idemia subsidiary has won a contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to demonstrate an identity vetting and verification technology for biometric access management at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. Idemia National Security Solutions will deploy its ID2Access platform to the Army installation as part of a research and development project with USACE’s Engineer […] More

James Yeager, vice president of public sector and health care at CrowdStrike, said there are four misconceptions about zero trust that federal agencies need to address and one of them is the view that legacy security technologies can safeguard today’s critical systems and data. “As data and users are spread everywhere, some of the legacy […] More

Arjun Kampani, an aerospace executive with approximately 20 years of industry experience, has joined Rocket Lab USA to oversee the launch service provider’s legal and regulatory affairs as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. He previously worked at Aerojet Rocketdyne, where he held similar positions focused on corporate law and governance, legal, ethics […] More

The joint venture of Boeing and Textron‘s Bell subsidiary received a third U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey to perform modifications on a key component that supports vertical takeoff and landing functions of the aircraft. Bell Boeing is working with the 727th Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron to update the tiltrotor military aircraft’s nacelle, Air Force […] More

Maximus will support the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center in AI program data preparation under a basic order agreement. The company said Thursday it aims to help DOD gain access to data tools, strategies and services through the Data Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Development program. “As an experienced provider of integrating defense technologies, we […] More

Software company Ansys has secured a potential five-year, $39.1 million contract from NASA to deliver a range of modeling and simulation technologies to the space agency’s centers across the U.S. NASA said Thursday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract allows it to procure the company’s simulation capabilities in electromagnetics, orbit determination, photonics, semiconductors, thermal, structures and other engineering […] More

Intel, Analog Devices and Micron have joined a Mitre Engenuity-led alliance to help further build up the U.S. semiconductor industry by accelerating microelectronics research, development and prototyping. The Semiconductor Alliance seeks to engage with companies and academic institutions to advance a whole-of-nation approach to innovation, ensure supply chain resilience and safeguard intellectual property amid global […] More

Boeing will implement cloud computing and artificial intelligence platforms from Microsoft as part of a strategic collaboration that supports the planemaker’s digital transformation initiative. The companies said Wednesday in a joint statement that Boeing aims to update its business processes and drive aerospace innovation with the use of data-driven technology. Specifically, the Chicago-based company plans […] More

Carahsoft has agreed to distribute Zimperium’s mobile security platform across the public sector through the former’s reseller network and existing contracts with NASA and the U.S. Army. The distributor said Wednesday the Zimperium product is meant to simplify how government agencies access and implement mobile endpoint and application security capabilities. The Zimperium zIPS platform uses […] More

Bluescape Software‘s virtual workspace platform has attained an impact level 5 authorization for use across the Department of Defense. The IL5 designation allows agencies, DOD personnel and contractors to leverage Bluescape virtual workspace and collaboration tools for sensitive, unclassified data,  the company said Wednesday. Federal integrator Bridge Core helped Bluescape achieve the IL5 authority to […] More