The Department of Veterans Affairs is poised to expand its artificial intelligence program and develop novel use cases for the technology. Speaking at AFCEA’s Automation Transformation conference, VA Director of AI Gil Alterovitz said it is a challenge for the department to make its data sets ready for use in AI. According to Alterovitz, AI can […]
Tom Keane, vice president of Microsoft’s Azure Global, has confirmed that the company’s Azure Government Secret offering has received approval to host “secret” government data. Keane specified in a blog post that Azure Government Secret secured the provisional authority at the Department of Defense’s Impact Level 6, along with other standards compliant with intelligence community […]
FSA Federal has named Tim Prange as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services division lead and program manager. In the said role, Prange is responsible for all operational aspects of the company’s homeland security services business. The new appointee brings nearly 20 years of experience as a federal government contract management veteran to the company, FSA […]
Jordin Cohen has been serving for over two years as vice president of defense and homeland security at Noblis, an information technology and services company in Reston, Virginia. As a six-year executive at Noblis, he has also served as director for homeland security and defense. Cohen is a 30-year industry veteran with experience in academia, […]
Kevin Phillips has been serving as president and chief executive officer of ManTech for over two years. In this capacity, Phillips manages an 8K-member team that optimizes advanced technologies in a number of areas, including cyber, enterprise information technology, systems engineering and software development, and critical data and predictive analytics. As a 14-year executive at […]
Amazon Web Services has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense for its potential revision of an evaluation criteria in the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract award to Microsoft. AWS deemed the DoD’s move as unfair and irrational, arguing that it would preserve Microsoft’s win by not allowing any price adjustments. In addition, […]
Phosphorus, an automated vulnerability management solutions company, has secured a U.S. Air Force AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research 20.1 Phase 1 contract. Under this contract, the Air Force information technology team will evaluate the potential of Phosphorus' solution automated IoT device discovery, enrollment, vulnerability patching and password management to enhance its IT security posture. The […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to integrate artificial intelligence in two of its programs aimed at addressing electric grid cybersecurity and getting ahead of 5G deployment. While leaving out the specifics of AI involvement, William Scherlis, director of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA, said the tech will be used in the Rapid […]
Parsons has named John Riordan as its new senior vice president of business development for the company’s space and geospatial solutions market. In this role, Riordan will handle account management, business development and customer engagement of the company’s space portfolio for the Department of Defense and intelligence community. Prior to his appointment at Parsons, Riordan […]
Raytheon has partnered with Uptake to equip deployed U.S. Marine Corps teams using M88 armored recovery vehicles with predictive maintenance capabilities. As part of the partnership, Raytheon will integrate technical abilities into the M88 to enable large-scale onboard recording, processing and transfer of sensitive data over secure Wi-Fi. Uptake will offer its suite of advanced […]
