Willie Hicks, public-sector chief technologist at Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), said government agencies looking to implement a zero-trust model should integrate artificial intelligence-enabled observability technologies throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure the security and performance of applications. “Zero trust principles require...
The U.S. Department of Defense is deeply concerned about and invested in integrating their technologies, data and systems. This undertaking relates directly to the Joint All Domain Command and Control initiative, which aims to interconnect communication capabilities throughout the various domains, as well as the mission partner environment, which em...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service has awarded five companies positions on a potential 10-year, $7.2 billion contract for wildland fire airtanker support services. The Airtanker Services 2023 multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-delivery contract has a one-year base period and nine option years and each awardee has a...
The Association of the U.S. Army has welcomed Lisa Atherton, president and CEO of Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell business, as the latest addition to the organization’s board of directors. Atherton replaced Mitch Snyder, a Bell veteran who retired from the company in April and the AUSA board, the non-profit said Friday. The new board director...
Systecon North America has received a contract to provide the U.S. Special Operations Command a suite of software platforms to support logistics and operational requirements. The company said Monday that SOCOM will use the Opus Suite software to streamline logistical processes and enhance asset availability and mission readiness by analyzing and mod...
Artificial intelligence company BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) posted a 2 percent year-over-year revenue increase for the second quarter of 2023 and booked two key contracts from the U.S. Army during the quarter. Sales in the April-June period totaled $38.5 million, compared to $37.6 million a year earlier, while backlog as of June 30 stood at $206...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) was awarded a potential five-year, $109 million contract to continue assisting the U.S. Cyber Command in its development of command, control, communications, computers and capabilities. The Centreville, Virginia-headquartered defense contractor said Thursday the classified award covers work previously done as part of C4 Capabilit...
Peraton will support the maintenance and operation of communications systems for NASA’s Deep Space Network Program under a $513.5 million subcontract from agency-sponsored Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The company said Thursday it will maintain four antenna stations equipped with parabolic dish antennas and ultra-sensitive receivers at the Goldstone ...
Now managed by the Office of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, Advana serves as the Department of Defense’s cloud-based business performance metrics platform. It is growing in reach, and since CDAO assumed responsibility for the platform in 2022, its user base has grown from 40,000 to over 72,000. While the platform ...
The Department of Defense has formed a task force that intends to advance the responsible development and deployment of large language models and other generative artificial intelligence technologies across DOD. DOD said Thursday the chief digital and AI office will lead Task Force Lima, which will help mitigate risk and address redundancy as the de...
