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  • Oracle’s Peter Guerra on How RAG Improves Generative AI Through Embedding
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    Oracle’s Peter Guerra on How RAG Improves Generative AI Through Embedding

    FedTech Magazine reported Thursday that retrieval augmented generation, or RAG, could help improve the value that generative artificial intelligence brings to agencies by enabling large language models to access an agency’s databases and other external information sources to produce contextual responses to user prompts.  Peter Guerra, group vice president for data and artificial intelligence at […] More

  • NobleReach’s Pat Tamburrino on Making Public Service Accessible for Top Tech Graduates
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    NobleReach’s Pat Tamburrino on Making Public Service Accessible for Top Tech Graduates

    Pat Tamburrino, chief operating officer at NobleReach Foundation, said the federal government looking to bring highly skilled tech and business graduates into public service should promote collaborative innovation, reassess the role of academia and streamline the process of getting into government work. Creating an Ecosystem for Graduates Exploring Mission-Oriented Work In a commentary published Thursday […] More

  • CTC to Support Marine Corps, DLA Under 3 Contract Options
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    CTC to Support Marine Corps, DLA Under 3 Contract Options

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has secured two contract options from the U.S. Marine Corps and another from the Defense Logistics Agency to support energy resilience, cybersecurity and metal casting production efforts. Enhancing Marine Corps Energy Resilience CTC said Friday it will help USMC improve energy resilience across its headquarters and installations under an option year of […] More

  • HJF-MDC Venture Fund Seeks to Drive Medical Innovation for Military, Civilian Applications
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    HJF-MDC Venture Fund Seeks to Drive Medical Innovation for Military, Civilian Applications

    The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, or HJF, and MDC Studio have formed a venture fund to accelerate the development and commercialization of dual-use technologies for military and civilian healthcare applications. HJF-MDC Venture Fund’s Focus Areas HJF said Wednesday the HJF-MDC Venture Fund is raising $20 million to invest in […] More

  • CGI Federal’s Victor Foulk on Agentic AI for Modern Supply Chain Ecosystems
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    CGI Federal’s Victor Foulk on Agentic AI for Modern Supply Chain Ecosystems

    Victor Foulk, vice president of emerging technologies at CGI Federal, said data integration and total asset visibility are fundamental factors that organizations should consider when deploying agentic artificial intelligence tools for citizen-centric supply chain ecosystems. “Being able to integrate asset management systems, financial systems and logistics systems to approach this concept of total asset visibility […] More

  • Deloitte Expands Silicon to Service AI Offering to Government, Regulated Industries
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    Deloitte Expands Silicon to Service AI Offering to Government, Regulated Industries

    Deloitte has expanded its Silicon to Service, or S2S, artificial intelligence offering to government agencies and regulated industries to enable them to rapidly prototype, field and scale AI tools for mission-critical operations. “S2S gives government organizations more ways to access leading AI capabilities across their data centers, hosting providers and the cloud,” Ed Van Buren, […] More

  • State Department OKs Poland’s $180M FMS Request for GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs
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    State Department OKs Poland’s $180M FMS Request for GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs

    The U.S. State Department has approved Poland’s foreign military sales request worth approximately $180 million for GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs, related equipment and support services. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Wednesday Boeing will serve as the principal contractor in the proposed FMS deal, which seeks to help Poland improve its capability to perform air-to-ground […] More

  • EXPANSIA Says Hybrid Cloud Could Help Organizations Enhance Mission Readiness
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    EXPANSIA Says Hybrid Cloud Could Help Organizations Enhance Mission Readiness

    Government technology services firm EXPANSIA said implementing a hybrid cloud architecture could help organizations managing sensitive or regulated workloads improve mission readiness. In a thought leadership piece published May 6, EXPANSIA said a hybrid cloud could help create a single, policy-driven ecosystem by connecting on-premise infrastructure with public/hyperscale environments. Supporting Mission Owners With Hybrid Cloud […] More

  • MDA Receives 1st AN/TPY-2 Radar With GaN Array From Raytheon
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    MDA Receives 1st AN/TPY-2 Radar With GaN Array From Raytheon

    RTX business Raytheon has handed over to the Missile Defense Agency the first AN/TPY-2 radar equipped with a Gallium Nitride, or GaN, populated array that provides greater sensitivity to expand surveillance capacity and increase range. RTX said Monday the AN/TPY-2 missile defense radar operates in the X-band of the electromagnetic spectrum and is designed to […] More

  • Defense Software Company TurbineOne Closes Series B Funding Round
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    Defense Software Company TurbineOne Closes Series B Funding Round

    San Francisco-based TurbineOne has raised $36 million in a round of Series B financing led by The General Partnership. Defense software company TurbineOne said Wednesday it will use the funding to support continued hiring across operations and engineering areas and advance the deployment of its artificial intelligence platform to support national security missions. Bessemer Venture […] More

  • Airbus US Space & Defense, L3Harris Enter Into Systems Integration Partnership for MQ-72C Logistics Connector
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    Airbus US Space & Defense, L3Harris Enter Into Systems Integration Partnership for MQ-72C Logistics Connector

    Airbus U.S. Space & Defense and L3Harris Technologies have partnered to use the latter’s system integration capabilities on Airbus MQ-72C, an unmanned aerial logistics connector. Airbus U.S. said Wednesday the partnership will allow it to use L3Harris’ digital backbone with integrated command and control nodes and enable the U.S. Marine Corps to further develop its […] More

  • SciTec Broadens Footprint to Advance Defense, Space-Based Tech Development
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    SciTec Broadens Footprint to Advance Defense, Space-Based Tech Development

    SciTec has added new office space across all its operating sites in Colorado, Ohio and three other states to improve collaboration with government and industry partners, accommodate its increasing workforce and accelerate development in areas that are key to U.S. defense and space operations. Addressing Demand for National Security Platforms Through Expanded Footprint “We are […] More