Atlas Research, with eKuber Ventures, has secured a $20 billion Chief Information Officer–Solutions and Partners 3 Small Business (CIO-SP3 SB) contract to provide federal government agencies with information technology (IT) solutions and services.

Robert Shea, principal of the strategy practice within Grant Thornton’s public sector arm, has been promoted to national managing principal for public policy in a move that would take effect on Aug. 1.

George Kamis, chief technology officer for global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, recently took part in a Q&A session with GovConWire regarding government telework and the importance of multilevel cross domain security.

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) reported Thursday that its Level 3 Financing subsidiary has agreed to sell $1.2 billion aggregate principal amount of unsecured 4.250 percent senior notes due 2028 pursuant to the private offering.

Paul Welch, former vice president of U.S. business development for cyber and nonkinetic effects at Raytheon, has joined Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as vice president and division manager for the Air Force and defense agencies portfolio. GovCon Wire has learned.

Black Cape Co-CEOs Abe Usher and Al Di Leonardo said automation technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning could help government agencies accelerate analysis of large data volumes and glean insights from data. They wrote about the three frameworks – TensorFlow, PyTorch and PyTorch scikit-learn – and how they help agencies and other organizations simplify AI adoption.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2020 — Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, said a new level of public-private collaboration that embraces a "commercial first" approach is key to innovate and modernize military space systems, ExecutiveBiz reported May 12.

Shaun Bierweiler, president of Cloudera’s (NYSE: CLDR) government solutions business, said agencies planning to adopt artificial intelligence should establish a comprehensive data strategy, which includes a data platform that takes into consideration governance and security from the start.

Twenty-eight representatives from the government, private and academic sectors have been appointed to serve for a term of up to two years on the user’s advisory group of the National Space Council.

Neil Wiley, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council, has been appointed principal executive in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence where he will also serve as acting principal deputy DNI.