TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 24, 2018 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) will research, design, build, integrate and deliver a new neural inference system for the U.S. Air Force under a $14.8M contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will work on the hardware and software for the “NorthPole” machine …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 17, 2018 — Fluor (NYSE: FLR) will deploy IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) Watson artificial intelligence and analytic technologies to build real-time diagnostic tools that will work to monitor complex engineering, procurement and construction projects, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The EPC Project Health Diagnostics and Market Dynamics/Spend Analytics systems will …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 13, 2018 — Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) have entered into a partnership in an effort to help customers utilize hybrid cloud environments to field and run big data workloads, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Red Hat said Monday the collaborative Open Hybrid Architecture …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 6, 2018 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) will work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a project that aims to utilize blockchain technology to build a secure and transparent public health information system, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Fast Company reported Tuesday that the planned blockchain-based system …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 26, 2018 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) has collaborated with the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop an experimental supercomputer designed to operate with computing power similar to a human neural network to perform pattern recognition and sensory processing applications, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. AFRL’s information directorate said …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 23, 2018 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Department of Veterans Affairs have extended their partnership aimed at utilizing artificial intelligence technology to help identify treatment options for retired service members with cancer, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday VA oncologists, under the National Cancer Moonshot …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 20, 2018 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) are among the companies that have been named to an advisory board for a new council co-led by Labor Secretary Alex Acosta and Presidential Adviser Ivanka Trump that focuses on the U.S. workforce, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Bloomberg …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 12, 2018 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) has designed a computer system for an Energy Department-backed national laboratory in Tennessee to support research in areas such as artificial intelligence, advanced materials and energy, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. DOE said Friday the recently unveiled Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 9, 2018 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) has appointed Alfred Zollar, a veteran of IBM (NYSE: IBM), to its board of directors, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Zollar has served as a division general manager for network computer software, as president and CEO for the Lotus Software division …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 27, 2018 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) has secured approval under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer its collaboration platform to government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Federal Times reported Wednesday that John Hamilton, manager of operations for FedRAMP, unveiled the authorization of IBM Connections on Twitter …