Accenture Federal Services will use artificial intelligence and machine learning to accelerate analysis of geospatial imagery under a potential four-year contract with the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. AFS will work with Element84, I2R, Boston University, Cornell University, MIT, North Carolina State University, South Dakota State University, University of Tennessee and University of California-Riverside to study changes in the earth’s surface caused by climate change, urban growth and other factors under IARPA’s Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique program.

Kathryn Larson, formerly an Accenture (NYSE: ACN) senior manager, has been promoted to managing director within the management consulting business at the company's federal arm. She holds more than 15 years of experience in areas such as program and change, organization and business process design and strategic communications.

Accenture Federal Services and Mitre have helped the Department of Veterans Affairs update information technology systems for processing education benefits for military veterans. The Veterans Benefits Administration and its two industry partners performed software development, integration, testing, communications and training work as part of Colmery Act implementation efforts. “These IT changes improve our ability to deliver education benefits to GI Bill students.” said VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.

Blake Nelson, a more than two-decade industry veteran and former Accenture executive, has taken the role of vice president and general manager at Pragmatics, where he will collaborate with the company's technology solutions group and business development team to explore various customer delivery efforts such as DevSecOps adoption and big data analytics systems.

Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business has received a contract from the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to help update information technology infrastructure for the government’s retirement services program, Federal News Network reported Monday.

Samantha Young, former strategic initiatives lead for safety and citizen services portfolio at Accenture's (NYSE: ACN) federal arm, has joined Steampunk as vice president of sales. She brings two decades of sales and business development experience to the information technology services provider.

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TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 22, 2020 — Vince Vlasho, a senior managing director and defense portfolio lead at Accenture Federal Services, told ExecutiveBiz in an interview that AFS' previous work with the U.S. Air Force on the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System has helped position the business to assist USAF in building a cloud-based common enterprise resource planning system.

The federal business of Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has helped the U.S. Air Force implement a cloud risk-reduction approach at six installations as part of the service branch’s efforts to modernize its enterprise information technology infrastructure.

A new report from Accenture's (NYSE: ACN) federal services business has found that most federal executives cite reengineered customer experience and human-machine teaming as key factors to driving innovation.