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VAST Data‘s federal subsidiary and MITRE have formed a strategic partnership to field new data capabilities to support a sandbox environment that could be used to train artificial intelligence models designed for federal government applications. According to a joint release published Monday, MITRE has reinforced its Federal AI Sandbox by deploying VAST Data Platform capabilities […] More
Guidehouse has added Mark Korth and Angela Hunt as partners to its health segment to support the company in helping health care organizations advance their clinical and operational performance. Korth will focus on assisting health care providers in optimizing large-scale mergers and integrations, transformations and operating model implementation, while Hunt will help them improve quality, […] More
Search company Elastic is collaborating with software company Red Hat to offer a solution to public sector organizations that seek to make artificial intelligence and machine learning part of their operations. Elastic said Friday that it is bringing to the partnership its Search AI Platform while Red Hat will provide OpenShift AI. Elastic Search AI […] More
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Gunnison Consulting Group a three-year, $14 million contract to provide cybersecurity support for the Office of the Chief Information Officer’s Cybersecurity Program Office. Gunnison said Monday it will work with the office to implement a cybersecurity program that fosters a zero trust security culture, enhances IT […] More
Pacific Defense, an innovative service provider specializing in Modular Open Systems Approach, has completed the expansion of its Sunnyvale, California, facility to enable the company to meet increasing demands. The company said Monday the Manufacturing Operations and Design Engineering Center in Silicon Valley now stretches over 20,000 square feet of space and has been ISO 9001-certified, […] More
Textron has announced that its Textron Systems business will provide company-owned, company-operated, or COCO, services for unmanned aircraft systems to another three U.S. Navy littoral combat ships, also known as LCS, under a task order worth up to $47 million. The contract involves the company’s Aerosonde UAS that the Naval Air Systems Command earlier booked […] More
ANELLO Photonics, the developer of the Silicon Photonic Optical Gyroscope, or SiPhOG, closed its Series B funding round co-led by Lockheed Martin, Catapult Ventures and One Madison Group, and joined by various others, including Trousdale Ventures and Build Collective. In a press release Monday, Mario Paniccia, CEO and co-founder of ANELLO Photonics, said, “This investment […] More
The State Department has approved the U.K. government’s request to purchase 46 Tactical Combat Training System Increment II units under a $70 million foreign military sales agreement. The FMS package includes containers, testing support, spare parts, documentation, training, engineering, logistics services and related program support, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Monday. TCTS II delivers realistic […] More
Databricks has received Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization from the Department of Defense for its artificial intelligence-based data intelligence platform. The designation enables the DOD, the agency’s mission partners and other federal agencies to use the platform to securely handle unclassified information, the data analytics company said Monday. Built on a lakehouse foundation, the Databricks Data […] More
Even in his early career in the telecommunications industry as an electrical engineer, Tom Afferton understood the importance of information assurance and network security. His telecommunications experiences gave him some exposure to the nascent years of cybersecurity. He was then involved in building more resilient communications networks after the September 11, 2001 attacks, which motivated […] More
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed at an average of $5,160.07 for the week after sustaining a significant 9.31% weekly loss. The index ended the period 1.78% lower than the previous record-setting week. GovCon Index allows site visitors to gain real-time insight into the stock market performance of 30 major government contracting organizations. The data it provides will […] More
Commercial space company Sierra Space is working with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the development of new exterior spacecraft tiles that work to protect such vehicles from high temperatures during Earth re-entry. Thermal Protection System Sierra Space said Thursday that the Thermal Protection System tiles it is working on in collaboration […] More
