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Business Leaders Cite Benefits of Defense Innovation Unit’s Contracting Process to Startups
Senior executives from startups talked about the Defense Innovation Unit’s rapid contracting process and its benefits to companies.
Jane Edwards
is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.
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AWS’ Andy Jassy Talks Cloud Adoption, Security at CERAWeek 2019
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, said the agility and speed that cloud offers when it comes to improving customer experiences is the primary reason why government agencies and enterprises migrate to the cloud, CRN reported Wednesday.
Federal Gov’t Seeks to Drive AI Adoption With IT Policies; Steve Harris, Rob Davies Quoted
The White House’s executive order to prioritize federal investments in artificial intelligence and the Department of Defense’s AI strategy reflect major developments in federal policy to advance the adoption of AI, MeriTalk reported Wednesday.
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CEO Tony Moraco on Leadership Transition at SAIC
Tony Moraco, CEO of Science Applications International Corp., told Defense News in an interview published Wednesday about his decision to retire and the board’s selection of Chief Operating Officer Nazzic Keene to serve as the next CEO.
ST Engineering Brings Bronco 3 to Ivalo for Vehicle Winter Testing; Tom Vecchiolla Comments
Singapore-based ST Engineering has begun testing a new variant of its Bronco all terrain tracked carrier at Ivalo Test World in northern Finland, EDR On-Line reported Thursday. The company brought Bronco 3 to Ivalo to assess the vehicle’s capability to operate in cold weather and heavy snow.
ÂAI.Reverie Gets In-Q-Tel Investment for Computer Vision Simulation Platform
In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s venture capital arm, has made a strategic investment in AI.Reverie to further develop the latter company’s computer vision simulation platform designed to meet government agencies’ operational requirements. AI.Reverie’s platform is designed to create photorealistic virtual worlds to mimic real-time locations and provide automatically annotated synthetic data and various scenarios and objects to facilitate training of algorithms and artificial intelligence tools, IQT said Tuesday.
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GSA Issues RFQ for Centers of Excellence Program’s Discovery & Assessment BPA
The General Services Administration has begun to seek bids for a blanket purchase agreement in support of first phase discovery and assessment initiatives under the Centers of Excellence program. GSA said Tuesday the request for quote includes a challenge question to assess a vendor’s technical capabilities in a functional area; a scenario question to evaluate a vendor’s ability to collaborate with federal employees and other contractors in a cross-functional team; and another factor to test a contractor’s ability to send a response with regard to one functional area.
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BlackBerry Seeks to Expand Presence in Gov’t Sector With New Subsidiary
BlackBerry has established a new wholly owned subsidiary to help the company further build up partnerships with government agencies and advance Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-related initiatives. Robert "Bob" Day, a retired Coast Guard rear admiral, will serve as president of Washington, D.C.-based BlackBerry Government Solutions, the company said Tuesday.
Dave Levy, AWS Federal Government VP, Inducted Into 2019 Wash100 for Leading Cloud Adoption Initiatives
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Dave Levy, vice president of federal government at Amazon Web Services, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena. This is his second consecutive Wash100 award.
Lockheed Completes Deep Space Habitat Prototype
Lockheed Martin has completed the final version of a 13-foot-wide habitat prototype designed to support NASA’s deep space missions, Orlando Sentinel reported Thursday. The company developed the habitat at Kennedy Space Center in Florida based on the refurbished Donatello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module and as part of NASA’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships contract.
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Ken Asbury: CACI Shifts Focus to Tech-Centered Work
Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, told The Washington Post in an interview published Friday that the company has begun to shift its focus from "staff augmentation" work to technology and products as the U.S. military transitions its resources toward dealing with near-peer competitors such as Russia and China. “I would prefer that my team select that they’re going to be in outcome-based things where we’re helping the mission,†said Asbury, a 2019 Wash100 winner.