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  • DSA Chairman, CEO Fran Pierce Named Philadelphia Entrepreneur of the Year
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    DSA Chairman, CEO Fran Pierce Named Philadelphia Entrepreneur of the Year

    Fran Pierce, chairman and CEO of Data Systems Analysts, has received EY‘s 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year award in the services category. The professional services firm presented her with the award, which recognizes entrepreneurs within the greater Philadelphia region, a during a gala event that took place at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Pierce […] More

  • Booz Allen Uses Machine Learning Tools to Help Soldiers Analyze Data
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    Booz Allen Uses Machine Learning Tools to Help Soldiers Analyze Data

    Booz Allen Hamilton works with soldiers to help them collect data and analyze combat indicators with the use of artificial intelligence technology, Nvidia reported Saturday. Aaron Sant-Miller, lead data scientist at Booz Allen, said in an interview that aired on Nvidia’s AI Podcast the company’s analysts receive overhead video feeds and fuse intelligence for military personnel to manage a […] More

  • Noblis Makes List of Washington Metro Region’s Top Workplaces for 5th Straight Year; Jean Cain Comments
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    Noblis Makes List of Washington Metro Region’s Top Workplaces for 5th Straight Year; Jean Cain Comments

    Noblis has been named to The Washington Post’s annual list of 150 top workplaces in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area for five years in a row. The nonprofit science and technology services provider’s inclusion in the list is based on the results of an employee survey that looks at execution, alignment and other areas of workplace […] More

  • Carahsoft to Distribute Qadium Software, Services to SPAWAR, DoD
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    Carahsoft to Distribute Qadium Software, Services to SPAWAR, DoD

    Carahsoft Technology has received a potential five-year, $37.6 million blanket purchase agreement from the Defense Department to provide Qadium’s software and services to the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Systems Center Pacific and other DoD agencies. The BPA awarded through the Enterprise Software Initiative will run through May 16, 2023, and covers […] More

  • Report: Boeing-Built ‘Echo Voyager’ AUV Undergoes 2nd Round of Tests
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    Report: Boeing-Built ‘Echo Voyager’ AUV Undergoes 2nd Round of Tests

    Boeing has conducted a second round of at-sea tests for an autonomous vehicle the company built in pursuit of a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater drone program, Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The service branch awarded separate contracts to a Boeing-Huntington Ingalls Industries team and Lockheed Martin to conduct design efforts under the first phase of the Orca Extra Large Unmanned […] More

  • AWS Introduces New Apps to GovCloud; Teresa Carlson Comments
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    AWS Introduces New Apps to GovCloud; Teresa Carlson Comments

    Amazon Web Services has unveiled new applications on the GovCloud platform that works to host sensitive workloads and data in compliance with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and other security regulations, GCN reported Friday. Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at AWS, introduced at the AWS Public Sector Summit those services […] More

  • DHS Seeks Commercial Tech for UAS Sensor Demo
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    DHS Seeks Commercial Tech for UAS Sensor Demo

    The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has announced plans to select commercially available sensors through the end of the year for potential use with unmanned aircraft systems. S&T said Friday it will give selected vendors one week each to demonstrate technology to as part of the Robotic Aircraft Sensor Program, the department said Friday. Representatives […] More

  • Jerry DeMuro: BAE’s US Arm Seeks to Align Portfolio With DoD Priorities
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    Jerry DeMuro: BAE’s US Arm Seeks to Align Portfolio With DoD Priorities

    Jerry DeMuro, president and CEO of BAE Systems Inc., has said the Virginia-based contractor is trying to align its portfolio with the Defense Department‘s current priorities that are based on authorized budget, Defense One reported Thursday. “What we tell our people and what we try and focus on are the facts and not the rhetoric,” he told […] More

  • SpaceX Tests Pre-Flown Rocket for 15th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission Launch
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    SpaceX Tests Pre-Flown Rocket for 15th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission Launch

    SpaceX completed a static fire test of a previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket booster Saturday at Cape Canaveral in Florida in preparation for the launch on Friday, June 29, of the Dragon spacecraft as part of the company’s 15th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, Spaceflight Now reported Saturday. The Dragon capsule will take off aboard […] More

  • Jake Zimmerman Joins Accelera Federal Team
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    Jake Zimmerman Joins Accelera Federal Team

    Jake Zimmerman, formerly customer relationship executive at PricewaterhouseCooper‘s international public sector business, has joined Accelera Solutions as federal account executive for national security and foreign affairs portfolio at the Fairfax, Va.-based technology services contractor. “I look forward to rolling up my sleeves with our clients and working on challenging issues like driving secure and flexible cloud strategies, enhancing mobility […] More

  • Twelve Startups Pitch AI Tools to In-Q-Tel, Intelligence Community
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    Twelve Startups Pitch AI Tools to In-Q-Tel, Intelligence Community

    In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s venture capital arm, has named Focal Systems as the winner of a competition that featured artificial intelligence tools from 12 startup companies. Focal Systems developed and presented a retail automation technology to IC representatives, investors and corporate executives during the “AI Computing at the Edge” pitch event, IQT said Thursday. The winning tool […] More

  • ICF Receives $50M Air Force Cyber Support Order; Randy James Comments
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    ICF Receives $50M Air Force Cyber Support Order; Randy James Comments

    ICF has secured a potential $50 million task order to provide enterprisewide technical, programmatic and advisory services for the U.S. Air Force‘s cyber function realignment effort. The company said Thursday it will help transition the service branch’s primary cyberspace responsibilities from the Air Force Space Command to the Air Combat Command as part of the task order […] More