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Booz Allen Hamilton has partnered with Conversable to jointly test and deliver automated interactive messaging tools and services to support customer care. The team will explore messaging, natural language processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to address two areas of customer needs including integrated and tailored customer service as well as on-demand access to content, products and services, Booz […] More

An Accenture subsidiary has unveiled a facility in Baltimore in order to provide support for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ and Social Security Administration‘s information technology programs and contracts. Accenture Federal Services will use the Innovation Center for Technology to support SSA’s Specialized Assistance and Advisory Services initiative and IT Support Services Contract as well […] More

Next Century has received a three-year contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to develop a signals intelligence-based tool that will work to forecast societal events as part of IARPA’s Mercury Program. The SIGINT-based Anticipation of Future Events technology will be built to detect and predict terrorist or military activities, civil unrest and rare disease outbreaks in the Middle […] More

NJVC has unveiled a new corporate office in St. Louis to provide enterprise information technology services to government clients and support the company’s software services practice. The facility headquartered at the CIC St. Louis technology hub will house employees of the firm’s software services group that works to develop custom applications and related tools designed to help […] More

Boeing has signed an collaborative agreement with Embraer to jointly market and discover new business opportunities for the Embraer KC-390 transport and aerial refueling aircraft, plus sustainment and support services. Embraer will supply the aircraft while Boeing will take charge of in-service support under the agreement, Boeing said Monday. Jackson Schneider, Embraer’s defense and security president and CEO, […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton’s systems delivery organization has achieved Maturity Level 5 rating under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development framework. The CMMI ML 5 status was granted after an independent appraiser evaluated Booz Allen’s implementation of process-based methods in software development, the company said Monday. Gary Labovich, executive vice president at Booz Allen, said the […] More

ICF International has received a potential five-year, $9.6 million contract to maintain a suite of web-based security applications for the Social Security Administration‘s Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness. ICF said Monday it will support OSEP’s security processes and nationwide oversight with the Security Automated Features and Enhancements platform powered by the company’s GroupAssure compliance automation software. The contract covers project management, onsite […] More

The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin have unveiled a pair of initiatives that aim to reduce the costs of producing and sustaining the F-35 Lightning II aircraft and weapon system. Lockheed, the primary F–35 contractor, and its principal industry partners BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman will invest an additional $170 million over the next two years in an effort to generate further […] More

Raytheon will collaborate with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop modular building blocks for the service branch’s Next Generation Radar program under a two-year, $1.1 million cooperative research agreement. The partnership aims to explore approaches to design and fabricate modular components for integration into the NGR’s open architecture and address flexibility, agility and efficiency requirements across radar bands, Raytheon said Monday. Colin Whelan, Raytheon […] More

The General Services Administration‘s 18F organization has issued a request for proposals via GitHub that seeks implementation support for a consumer-facing interagency authentication platform for citizen services, FedScoop reported Friday. Billy Mitchell writes 18F wants a vendor team that could provide technical features to the login.gov identity management platform, which is scheduled to be launched in November 2016. The chosen contractor would help 18F integrate […] More