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  • Kaggle-Booz Allen 'Data Science Bowl' to Include AI Integration Challenge for Lung Cancer Screening Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kaggle-Booz Allen ‘Data Science Bowl’ to Include AI Integration Challenge for Lung Cancer Screening Tech

    Kaggle and Booz Allen Hamilton will convene medical communities and data scientists for a challenge to use artificial intelligence in efforts to further develop lung cancer screening technology. The companies said Thursday the 90-day Data Science Bowl competition will look to boost current technologies for the early detection of lung cancer and potentially reduce lung cancer […] More

  • FIRST, Booz Allen, & Qualcomm Hold Event to Highlight STEM Education in San Diego - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FIRST, Booz Allen, & Qualcomm Hold Event to Highlight STEM Education in San Diego

    FIRST, Booz Allen Hamilton and Qualcomm have hosted an event aboard the USS Midway aircraft carrier museum in San Diego to support science, technology, engineering and math education. FIRST said Thursday the event highlighted collaborative efforts across the education, corporate and military sectors to boost STEM education in San Diego’s military and underserved communities. “The average military […] More

  • Booz Allen Co-Hosts Online Crowdsourcing Hackathon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Co-Hosts Online Crowdsourcing Hackathon

    Booz Allen Hamilton has co-hosted an onsite and online crowdsourcing hackathon at the firm’s innovation center in Washington, D.C. to present the impacts of crowdsourced development in the federal sector. The four-day 2016 Topcoder Open Finals exhibited an Environmental Protection Agency Megahack that aimed to develop a portal for policymakers, industry associations and other key stakeholders […] More

  • Booz Allen, Techstars Name 6 Teams for Cyber Tech Development Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Techstars Name 6 Teams for Cyber Tech Development Program

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Techstars have unveiled six teams comprised of startups and Booz Allen’s product teams that will work to develop cybersecurity technologies. Techstars said Monday it entered a partnership with Booz Allen to support and develop emerging technologies that could help address cybersecurity threats. The first class of the Startup Next Cyber pre-accelerator program includes Booz […] More

  • Microsoft Adds Booz Allen's Cloud Security Suite to Azure Govt Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Adds Booz Allen’s Cloud Security Suite to Azure Govt Marketplace

    Microsoft will offer a suite of Booz Allen Hamilton products on the Azure Government Cloud as the companies seek to help agencies protect cloud-based workloads and comply with the Defense Department‘s security requirements. Derek Strausbaugh, a principal program manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Friday that Booz Allen’s Virtual Cloud Defense portfolio is designed to support the development […] More

  • Booz Allen, Phantom Partner to Develop Security Automation, Orchestration Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Phantom Partner to Develop Security Automation, Orchestration Tools

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Phantom have forged a strategic alliance that seeks to combine the former’s cyber intelligence expertise with the latter’s security automation and orchestration technology in a push to help increase the resilience of enterprise systems against threats. The partnership aims offer a portfolio of automation and orchestration platforms to support incident response and threat defense operations […] More

  • Booz Allen to Support NASA's Air, Rail Safety Programs Under 5-Year IDIQ Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen to Support NASA’s Air, Rail Safety Programs Under 5-Year IDIQ Contract

    Booz Allen Hamilton has received a five-year, $33.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from NASA to help the space agency’s Ames Research Center manage voluntary air and rail incident reporting programs. The company said said Monday it will assist Ames Research Center in efforts to operate and maintain the Aviation Safety Reporting System and Close Call Reporting System. Booz Allen […] More

  • Michael Isman: Govt Agencies to Adopt Automated Interactive Messaging For Customer Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Isman: Govt Agencies to Adopt Automated Interactive Messaging For Customer Service

    Michael Isman, a vice president in Booz Allen Hamilton‘s strategic innovation group, has said the firm expects the government and the commercial market to adopt automated interactive messaging technologies for customer service, Fedscoop reported Tuesday. Isman told Fedscoop reporter Samantha Ehlinger chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, automated analytics and crowdsourcing tools could replace call centers in customer service delivery through […] More

  • HHS, FDA Vet Melissa Chapman Joins Triple-i as BD, Capture Unit VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS, FDA Vet Melissa Chapman Joins Triple-i as BD, Capture Unit VP

    Melissa Chapman, a former chief information officer and deputy assistant secretary from the Department of Health and Human Services, has joined Springfield, Virginia-based information technology services company Information Innovators Inc. as new vice president of the business development and capture unit. Chapman joined the company in May and has since led its HHS market growth strategy through subject matter and technical […] More

  • Brian McKeon on Booz Allen's Systems Architecture Approach for the Army, Cyber Requirements Outlook - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brian McKeon on Booz Allen’s Systems Architecture Approach for the Army, Cyber Requirements Outlook

    Brian McKeon helps lead Booz Allen Hamilton‘s systems engineering and integration work for the U.S. Army in his role as an executive vice president at the McLean, Va.-based consulting contractor. He oversees a portfolio that emphasizes C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) offerings in the Army market for Booz Allen. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, McKeon […] More

  • ABI Research: Biometrics Industry to Grow $27B in Revenues by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ABI Research: Biometrics Industry to Grow $27B in Revenues by 2020

    A new ABI Research report has projected the biometric security and surveillance industry to reach $26.8 billion in revenues by 2020. The report notes that biometric technologies have begun to attract consumer and banking markets in addition to strong market adoption in law enforcement and government applications, ABI Research said Thursday. ABI Research also reports […] More

  • NVTC Unveils FY 2015-2016 Board Roster - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NVTC Unveils FY 2015-2016 Board Roster

    The Northern Virginia Technology Council has announced the roster of its board of directors for the trade association’s 2015-16 fiscal year. NVTC also announced Tuesday the election of 27 new and returning board members, and 16 three-year-term members to the board. Officers of the board of directors include: Chair: Todd Stottlemyer, CEO of Inova Center for […] More