Booz Allen Hamilton has launched its new innovation center at its office in Washington, D.C., to demonstrate artificial intelligence, cyber, 5G, quantum and edge computing technologies to customers. Susan Penfield, Booz Allen’s chief technology officer and a 4×24 member, said the Helix Center for Innovation is part of the company’s VoLT growth strategy, which aims […]
Okta has launched a new cloud-native identity solution for the Department of Defense and its mission partners. The Okta for US Military platform built on Amazon Web Services GovCloud and hosted on the .mil domain is designed to provide Impact Level 4 protection for controlled unclassified information by connecting Defense Information Systems Network users through […]
Parsons has awarded a subcontract to SilverEdge Government Solutions to ensure federal information and communication technology accessibility for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s employees, including those with disabilities. SilverEdge secured the contract under Parson’s potential five-year, $590 million Combatant Commands Cyber Mission Support task order awarded in 2019 by the General Services Administration. Contract work supports […]
The U.S. Army and the Defense Innovation Unit have awarded Applied Intuition a $49 million contract to provide an end-to-end autonomy software development and test platform for the Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle program. The solution will be designed to help the program meet requirements for off-road maneuvering, obstacle avoidance and safety and assess and improve […]
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s 2022 report to Congress recommended conducting a review of the activities performed by Chinese companies in the U.S. critical sectors where the entities are found to have benefited from “cyber-enabled intelligence collection or theft of intellectual property” sponsored by China. The USCC also urged the Biden administration to […]
The U.S. Space Command has established the Combined Joint Task Force-Space Operations, a new organization tasked to streamline space operations and provide satellite-based services to military forces on the ground. CJTF-SO will ensure the efforts of the Joint Task Force-Space Defense and the Combined Force Space Component Command are coordinated to enable an agile response […]
Tricia Fitzmaurice recently joined Rancher Government Solutions as vice president of sales, bringing 27 years of government IT thought leadership and experience. The open-source software and Kubernetes company hired Fitzmaurice in October 2022. The U.S. Air Force Kessel Run recently tapped RGS to provide Kubernetes support services to advance digital transformation at the IT Life […]
Michael Allen serves as business development director at Xator, a provider of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance solutions. He joined the company in October 2021 after a two-year career at Leidos where he was a business development head responsible for leading capture initiatives in counter unmanned aerial systems, training, information technology, intelligence […]
The U.S., China and Russia are among the countries seeking to develop artificial general intelligence, the next phase of AI that could perform human-level tasks and abilities and exceed human intelligence, according to Charles Simon, CEO of technology company FutureAI. Unlike current AI technologies that rely on datasets to execute complex tasks, AGI would exhibit […]
The U.S. Army is soliciting industry feedback on the ongoing development of a new framework to simplify data gathering and dissemination. The Unified Data Reference Architecture is being created to move away from outdated data collection and transfer mechanisms. URDA would be a cloud-based architecture that adopts new data mesh and data fabric principles to […]
