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  • P&S Market Research: North America's Government Cloud Revenue to Hit $15B by 2023 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    P&S Market Research: North America’s Government Cloud Revenue to Hit $15B by 2023

    A new report by P&S Market Research says the government cloud market in North America is estimated to generate more than $15 billion in revenue by 2023. Increased demand and investments in cloud-based systems from government agencies will drive the projected revenue growth in the region, P&S Market Research said Monday. Key players in the government cloud market […] More

  • CSRA Joins Google Cloud Partner Program; Larry Prior Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Joins Google Cloud Partner Program; Larry Prior Comments

    Google has added CSRA to its Cloud Partner Program as both companies aim to implement artificial intelligence-based technology platforms in the federal sector. CSRA said Thursday the Falls Church, Virginia-based company seeks to expand its government IT offerings through the partnership. The Google Cloud Platform and G Suite are designed to help customers modernize enterprise operations. “Our longstanding relationship with the federal government […] More

  • Google Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization

    Google has received a provisional authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its suite of cloud computing services and underlying common infrastructure. FedRAMP’s Joint Authorization Board issued Rev. 4 P-ATO approval to the Google Cloud Platform at the moderate impact level, Jennifer Lin, director of product management for Google’s GCP security and privacy […] More

  • DoD Issues Draft Solicitation for Cloud Procurement Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Issues Draft Solicitation for Cloud Procurement Contract

    The Defense Department has issued a draft request for proposals for a single-award contract to procure commercial enterprise-level cloud services in support of agencies within DoD and service branches. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud program is a potential 10-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that has a base term of two […] More

  • Report: Google, DoD Partner to Develop AI Tech for UAS Footage Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Google, DoD Partner to Develop AI Tech for UAS Footage Analysis

    Google and the Defense Department have teamed up to develop an artificial intelligence technology that would aid analysis of footage collected through unmanned aircraft systems, Gizmodo reported Tuesday. An anonymous Google spokesperson told Gizmodo that the company will provide TensorFlow application programming interfaces to help DoD analysts identify objects in UAS footage as part of the department’s Project Maven. […] More

  • NSF Partners With 3 Cloud Providers for Data Science Research Support Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSF Partners With 3 Cloud Providers for Data Science Research Support Program

    The National Science Foundation has partnered with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google to support research projects in the data science and engineering field. NSF said Wednesday it will obligate nearly $30 million to the Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering program. AWS, Google and Microsoft have each pledged to donate […] More

  • Palo Alto Networks Introduces New Features of Cloud Security Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Palo Alto Networks Introduces New Features of Cloud Security Platform

    Palo Alto Networks has unveiled new features of its cloud security platform during the company’s Epic Cloud Security Event held Tuesday. The Next-Generation Security Platform will work to expand cloud workload protections to Google‘s cloud platform and offer added security for Amazon Web Services‘ and Microsoft‘s respective cloud environments, Palo Alto Networks said Tuesday. The new tools include […] More

  • Google to Commission Submarine Cables, Open Regions as Part of Infrastructure Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google to Commission Submarine Cables, Open Regions as Part of Infrastructure Expansion

    Google will add three new submarine cables and open five new regions as part of its global infrastructure expansion efforts and commitment to serve cloud clients. Ben Treynor Sloss, vice president of engineering at Google, said in a release published Tuesday the company will open regions in the Netherlands and Montreal within the first quarter of 2018 with […] More

  • Amazon, Google, Microsoft Take Steps to Address Newly-Discovered Processor Vulnerabilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon, Google, Microsoft Take Steps to Address Newly-Discovered Processor Vulnerabilities

    Amazon, Google and Microsoft have launched efforts to secure their respective cloud services and products amid the discovery of security vulnerabilities in various computer chips, CNBC reported Wednesday. A report from the Register revealed that vulnerabilities affecting various processors could allow hackers to steal information from devices that run those chips, such as computers and data center servers. […] More

  • Google Machine Learning Tool Aids Discovery of 8th Planet Around 'Sun-Like' Star - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Machine Learning Tool Aids Discovery of 8th Planet Around ‘Sun-Like’ Star

    NASA has discovered an eighth planet orbiting a Sun-like star named Kepler-90 using Google‘s machine learning tool. The space agency said Friday the machine learning platform identified the Kepler-90i planet by searching through data from the Kepler Space Telescope. Researchers Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg trained a computer, called an artificial neural network, to detect exoplanets in light readings recorded by […] More

  • IBM Designs Server for AI Workload Processing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Designs Server for AI Workload Processing

    IBM has unveiled a new server platform designed to help enterprise customers process and manage data-intensive artificial intelligence and cognitive computing workloads. AC922 Power Systems are built with IBM’s POWER9 processor and designed to accelerate training on deep learning processes by approximately four times, the company said Dec. 5. The processor currently powers the Energy Department‘s high-performance […] More