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Battelle, a company focused on research and development associated with national security, energy, health and the environment, has appointed two executives to its board of directors. These leaders, Exelon President and CEO Calvin Butler and Installed Building Products President, CEO and Chairman Jeff Edwards, will join the team effective immediately, the Columbus, Ohio-based enterprise announced on Thursday.

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IBM is working to advance its geospatial artificial intelligence tools, including the new AI foundation model developed in partnership with NASA, to support climate efforts in the U.A.E., Kenya and the U.K. The company said Thursday it has partnered with the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence to fine-tune its geospatial foundation model for mapping urban heat islands in Abu Dhabi and parts of the U.A.E.

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CRL Technologies, an Alexandria, Virginia-based engineering services provider, was selected by the U.S. Navy to deliver lead systems integrator support to the AIRWorks Office within the Naval Air Warfare Center. Under a $247.7 million contract, the company will perform engineering, technical, prototyping and project management services in support of the service branch's manned and unmanned aircraft programs and platforms.

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Clear Ridge Defense, a Maryland-based cybersecurity consulting firm, has secured a potential $25 million prime contract to provide various support services for the Cyber Adversary Tactics Office. The award includes provision of red team operations, cyber threat emulation, infrastructure engineering, exercise scenario development, adversary threat assessment and training support services, the company said Thursday.

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Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky subsidiary has delivered the initial airframe replacement for the MH-60T Jayhawk helicopters to the U.S. Coast Guard. The delivery forms part of a 10-year life extension program aimed at prolonging the service life of the 45-helicopter fleet into the 2040s, Lockheed said Thursday.

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Precise Systems on Nov. 10 closed the transaction to acquire Excet, a provider of scientific research and engineering services to Department of Defense customers, including the U.S. Army and Navy. Excet's areas of expertise include alternative energy, biotechnology, synthetic biology and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives threat assessment, and many of its employees are holders of advanced degrees in various disciplines, Precise Systems said.

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Axiom Space is migrating its enterprise information technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services to provide cloud-based tools and services to its operations, business and engineering teams supporting the development of its commercial space station in low-Earth orbit. "Axiom Space is using AWS’s global infrastructure and a broad and deep portfolio of cloud services to deliver revolutionary solutions to the space industry," Dave Levy, vice president for worldwide public sector at AWS, said in a statement published Monday.

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Booz Allen Hamilton gathered insights from cybersecurity experts on the industry's response to federal regulations to ensure the responsible use of AI. The company held a panel discussion on principled AI featuring representatives from the government and the private sector.

Booz Allen Hamilton is one of the distinguished sponsors of the Potomac Officers Club's fifth annual Artificial Intelligence Summit, happening on March 21, 2024. Register now to join the event.

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Peraton was awarded a $24 million modification to its contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for continued provision of imagery science expertise and infrastructure support. The award raises the Acadia contract overall value to $130 million and covers six months of services from Peraton to support the agency's image quality and integration testing missions.

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Carahsoft will serve as public sector distributor for the products of Interos under a new partnership between the two companies. The technology offered by Interos works to provide supply chain intelligence by aggregating data -- including threats and vulnerabilities -- from millions of global entities in real time, enabling due diligence, monitoring and reporting, Carahsoft said Wednesday.

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