Lumen Technologies has appointed artificial intelligence expert Satish Lakshmanan as its new chief product officer. The telecommunications company said Monday that Lakshmanan was previously part of Amazon Web Services, where he served as global leader for artificial intelligence services.

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Jeffery McLaughlin will be joining other key leaders in the digitally-driven customer experience industry as moderator in the upcoming The CX Imperative Forum to be hosted by the Potomac Officers Club on Jan. 25, 2924. You can register a slot early to see what perks await the early birds!   Who is Jeffery McLaughlin?   […] More

KBR will join with The Henry M. Jackson Foundation on the Service Personnel Advancing Research in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy contract. The SPARC contract supports neuroscience research for service members and will specifically focus on patients affected by traumatic brain injuries, KBR said Monday.

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Carlyle and Insight Partners have made a definitive agreement to invest in artificial intelligence-focused company Exiger. Through the partnership, Exiger will be provided with a majority investment from funds managed by the two companies, which will be used to enhance its technology portfolio, Exiger announced from McLean, Virginia on Tuesday.

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NASA has chosen Ball Aerospace to initiate the first phase of a mission aimed at expanding the scientific community’s knowledge about the sun's middle coronal structure. Under the contract, the company said Monday it will conduct a conceptual study for the space agency's proposed Extreme ultraviolet Coronal Mass Ejection and Coronal Connectivity Observatory mission.

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Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works advanced development arm has partnered with telecommunications services provider Verizon to demonstrate 5G-enabled visualization content streaming on edge computing devices for military sustainment missions. The partnership validated capabilities in three technology areas: 5G at the edge for latency-critical interactions of augmented, virtual and extended reality applications; streaming of real-time, 3D visualization content; and streaming to edge computing devices, Lockheed said Monday.

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Bruce Dickey has ascended to the role of president and CEO from vice president of national security services at SBG Technology Solutions, a subsidiary of health information technology services provider Document Storage Systems. He will be responsible for growing SBG’s IT, systems engineering, software development and cybersecurity capabilities into new federal sectors, DSS said Monday.

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Cloud is the key digital revolution component that will keep companies, governments and organizations competitive and relevant in the future of geospatial IT, said Clint Crosier, director of aerospace and satellite at Amazon Web Services. In an interview with Geospatial World, Crosier discussed the symbiotic relationship of artificial intelligence and cloud technology and how their processing of data can impact civilian and government decisions that affect daily life.

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Verizon has incorporated C-Band coverage and deployed redundant Wi-Fi and other connectivity platforms and services to support North American Aerospace Defense Command’s initiative of helping children track the whereabouts of Santa Claus on Christmas Eve via a toll-free hotline. Verizon said Tuesday it will provide 5G connectivity service to the command's commercial network and supply equipment, including Wi-Fi jetpacks, Cradlepoint routers and Verizon Frontline mobile assets, to enable volunteers to quickly respond to children’s calls as part of the NORAD Tracks Santa initiative.

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Vincent DiFronzo, senior vice president of the Air Force, DOD Agency, Combatant Command business unit at Science Applications International Corp., said there are five ways organizations can prioritize military veterans and their families and the first two are through corporate leadership and human resources programs. “Companies with the most successful veteran hiring initiatives and employee resource groups are those led by veterans or military family members themselves,” DiFronzo wrote in an opinion piece published Monday in Stars and Stripes.

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TrustPoint, a developer of next-generation global navigation satellite system products and services, has partnered with cybersecurity services provider SpiderOak to deploy the latter's zero trust data exchange software for its future GNSS offerings. Under the partnership, TrustPoint will use SpiderOak's OrbitSecure software suite to secure all aspects of data storage and transmission for its planned constellation of commercial positioning, navigation and timing satellites, the Dulles, Virginia-headquartered company said Monday.

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Abt Associates has appointed ZeAmma Brathwaite as vice president of U.S. healthcare services and Susan Longley as senior vice president for the U.S. domestic market. Abt said Monday that Longley previously served as the global consulting and research firm's U.S. domestic healthcare services portfolio VP while Brathwaite previously served as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services client account lead.

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