Noblis’ board of trustees has elected Rich Jacques, the company’s vice president of intelligence and law enforcement, to serve as corporate officer. According to CEO and President Amr ElSawy, Jacques has strengthened the company’s offerings in the intelligence and law enforcement business areas, as well as positioned the company for future growth, Noblis said. “He […]
NASA said it has signed information exchange agreements with Wisk and Alaka’i Technologies to support its urban air mobility project. NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility Campaign and the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration are partnering with industry to test experimental urban air mobility vehicles and electric-powered vertical takeoff and landing vehicles. Wisk and Alaka’i joined […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to invest about $100M in cloud computing through a partnership with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, Bloomberg Government reported. According to a contract opportunity listing on the Department of Homeland Security’s website, ICE officials are seeking cloud infrastructure hosting in AWS and Microsoft Azure environments. ICE wants a third-party contractor […]
Top Department of Defense officials have affirmed plans to make the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center more widely support the disparate AI efforts across the military services. DoD Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy, a two-time Wash100 awardee, said he is committed to using JAIC’s Joint Common Foundation to serve as a force multiplier for the services, […]
Tetra Tech, an engineering services company, has been awarded a $150M contract to provide architectural and engineering services at U.S. Naval Engineering Command facilities worldwide. Under the terms of the five-year multiple-award contract, Tetra Tech will help the command modernize systems related to fuel storage and distribution, emergency backup power, fire protection and spill containment, […]
Spectrum Enterprise has announced a partnership with Core Technologies Inc., a woman-owned small business, to resell communications services and solutions to government agencies. As part of the agreement, Spectrum is now an authorized subcontractor on CTI's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract for telecommunications and information technology services. CTI is among the nine subcontractors who were awarded […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology plans to release the findings of a study on artificial intelligence vulnerabilities sometime in 2021. NIST said it wants to release guidance on AI trustworthiness that will be welcomed by the international AI community but that it needs more time to understand how to measure bias in data […]
The Navy has awarded BAE Systems a $94M contact to provide advanced technology that can help develop various unmanned aerial systems. BAE will provide engineering, test and evaluation support for sensors as well as communication, control and weapons systems for various manned and unmanned airborne platforms. “Our state-of-the-art digital engineering capabilities, and extensive experience in […]
The Senate Appropriations Committee wants to expedite the transition of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites, which are used to connect the president to military leaders during strategic challenges, to the new Evolved Strategic SATCOM. Rick Ambrose, Lockheed Martin's executive vice president for space, said that a “launch on need” mentality presents security concerns and […]
The Air Force plans to collaborate with all combatant commands, the Joint Staff and the other military services in establishing the next generation of tactical military communications. Air Force Chief Architect Preston Dunlap, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said that “even a KC-46 tanker” will be connected to the planned Joint All-Domain Command […]
