Mitre, Visium Sign Cybersecurity Tech Licensing Deal
Visium Technologies has secured licensing rights to commercialize a technology Mitre developed for cyber warfare analytics, knowledge management and visualization tasks.
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VA to Host Industry Events for Electronic Health Records Modernization Effort
The Department of Veterans Affairs will host three business opportunity sessions to discuss with industry the requirements of the agency’s electronic health records modernization program.
ThinKom Antenna Supports In-flight Connectivity Through Inmarsat Satellite
AÂ ThinKom Solutions-built phased array antenna completed a test series that demonstrated in-flight connectivity on a high-altitude long-endurance aircraft via Inmarsat's broadband satellite network.
Roy Azevedo on Key Ideas That Drive Raytheon’s Military Tech Dev’t Efforts
A Forbes article about a conversation with Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon's space and airborne systems unit, highlights some of the ideas that drive the company’s military technology development initiatives. One of the ideas Azevedo cited is the transition from warfighting “platforms†toward the adoption of flexible “systems of systems†when it comes to modern warfare, according to the article published Monday.
DARPA Seeks Proposals for Fourth OFFSET Swarm Sprint, Announces Third Sprint Awardees
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced two awardees for the third sprint of the OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics program and begun to seek proposals for the fourth sprint. Soar Technology and Carnegie Mellon University received separate contracts to perform work under the OFFSET program’s third sprint, which aims to explore new human-swarm teaming technologies, DARPA said Monday.
ÂMaximus Federal’s Andy Beamon: Agencies Should Understand Differences Between AI, Other Citizen Service Delivery Tools
Andy Beamon, vice president of digital solutions for citizen services at Maximus’ federal business, has said federal agencies seeking to transform the delivery of citizen services should understand how robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, bots and cognitive computing differ from one another. “Understanding the differences between them is important as it impacts both the citizens’ experience and government agencies navigating the procurement process,†Beamon wrote in a Nextgov article published Monday.
Mike Leff: AT&T to Help Department of Navy Transition to FirstNet Public Safety Broadband Network
The Department of the Navy has agreed to deploy a national public safety broadband network from AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority across Navy and Marine Corps installations in the U.S., Seeking Alpha reported Monday. “We are honored to help the Department of the Navy transition to the FirstNet public safety communications platform,†said Mike Leff, vice president for defense at AT&T’s public sector business.
Cloudera’s Shaun Bierweiler: State, Local Governments Need to Harness Big Data via Strategy Implementation
Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Cloudera, has said state and local government agencies should have strategies in place to leverage big data in order to facilitate the delivery of citizen services.
DARPA Invites AI-Based Language Acquisition Concept Submissions
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is inviting potential vendors to submit ideas on how to develop an artificial intelligence process that would help computers to acquire language.
Deloitte: Mission, Adaptation Could Help Agencies Realize Potential of Cloud
A Deloitte article says government information technology leaders should consider four factors to realize the benefits of cloud adoption and one of those is measuring success in terms of mission. Defining success in terms of mission could help organizations rationalize investments and encourage users to identify more ways to advance the use of cloud, according to the article published Thursday.
Northrop, Cadence Partner for System-on-Chip Design Projects
Cadence Design Systems has partnered with Northrop Grumman to design system-on-chip architectures with an advanced-node technology for aerospace and defense applications.
NextGen Gets AFRL Contract to Deliver New Weather Analysis Approach
NextGen Federal Systems has received a two-year contract with Air Force Research Laboratory to help defense and intelligence communities analyze and transmit large amounts of weather data. The company said Thursday it will work to develop a weather analysis-as-a-service that would streamline analytical and dissemination processes for high-resolution weather data around the globe. AFRL awarded the contract under the Small Business Innovation Research program.