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ASRC Federal will serve as a subcontractor to Space & Technology Solutions on the $719 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services III contract it had received from NASA earlier this year. ASRC Federal said Thursday that under the deal, two of its subsidiaries will provide hardware and software engineering services to help develop and validate technologies that would enable future NASA space and science missions, including those for the Joint Polar Satellite Systems and Exploration and In-Space Services programs.

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Palantir has received a potential $115 million award from the U.S. Army to extend its work on the service branch’s Vantage platform. Under the one-year contract, Palantir will continue to support the Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems by operating and upgrading the open data and analytics platform, the Denver, Colorado-based company announced on Friday.

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CACI has received a $64 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide hardware and systems engineering services for a ground-based system that supports the service branch’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. The company said Thursday it will enhance the shelter operations of the Distributed Common Ground System in support of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Command, Control and ISR Division.

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Koniag Government Services has launched its Strategic Partner Program for small businesses and welcomed DecisionPoint and Leisnoi Government Services as the initiative's inaugural participants. The program is aimed at exposing small businesses to new customers and opportunities in the government contracting landscape.

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ScienceLogic has introduced a major update to its artificial intelligence for information technology operations platform, SL1. The release of the Hollywood update will enable the integration of AI and automation capabilities into SL1’s user interface, accelerating the generation of actionable insights using data collected from hybrid cloud environments, ScienceLogic said Wednesday.

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The U.S. Air Force used predictive maintenance applications enabled by artificial intelligence and data analytics to lower maintenance costs and ensure mission readiness, wrote Liz Martin, Department of Defense director at Amazon Web Services. In an article published Thursday, Martin explained the Predictive Analytics and Decision Assistant, co-developed by the Air Force and C3 AI and launched in AWS GovCloud.

The Potomac Offices Club will hold the 5th Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 21, 2024. Register now.

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HII has secured a $100 million cost-reimbursable modification to its contract with the U.S. Navy for the construction of the future USS Enterprise nuclear aircraft carrier. The Department of Defense said Thursday the company will establish a Nuclear Enterprise Workforce Special Incentive to facilitate the government's strategic co-investments in recruiting, training and retaining personnel involved in nuclear ship construction and repair activities.

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The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has begun seeking information on potential industry sources capable of providing unbiased operational assessments of technologies and capabilities. A notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov said that the potential five-year contract will support the assessment of the comparative functionality and interoperability of platforms designed for explosive ordnance disposal and counter weapons of mass destruction missions.

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Nancy Ann Norton, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral who served as director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, will join the board of directors of Leidos on Jan. 1. Leidos CEO Thomas Bell said Norton will help the company have better customer challenge understanding and maintain its industry position.

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A new Splunk study has found that 83 percent of public sector organizations are using artificial intelligence and 48 percent of respondents in the public sector said they consider trust and reliability in AI-enabled platforms as top concerns for decision-makers.

Register here to attend the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 21 and hear federal leaders and industry experts discuss the latest developments in the field.

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T-Rex Solutions has received a subcontract from Agile Defense on a single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity deal worth up to $1.01 billion meant to support the Defense Information Systems Agency. T-Rex said Tuesday that, under the Test, Evaluation and Certification II contract, Team Agile will provide various services to the Joint Interoperability Test Command, including test and evaluation planning, results reporting and data collection and analysis for various functional areas.

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