The National Science Foundation has started soliciting proposals for the fourth competition of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program and expects to make up to five awards in fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The fourth National AI Research Institutes competition is anticipated to reach up to $100 million in total funding and wil...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded nine companies positions on a potential seven-year, $200 million contract to provide the service branch with architect and engineering construction support services. USACE received 30 offers for the firm-fixed-price contract and will obligate funds and determine work locations upon award of task orders, t...
Recorded Future‘s Threat Intelligence Fund has invested in Hunt.io, a startup that produces security data from scanning and incident observations of network infrastructure. The Hunt platform works by deploying “millions of probes” to track threat actor movements within a network and offer organizations an in-depth insight into malicious ac...
Matt Pinkston, a nearly four-decade veteran of the technology and government contracting sectors, has joined bidding intelligence system provider Procurement Sciences AI as chief growth officer. His appointment comes as PSci.AI aims to help government contractors build a competitive advantage through artificial intelligence-based automation technolo...
NASA has started soliciting proposals for a potential 10-year, follow-on contract covering research operations, maintenance and engineering support services to Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The space agency intends to conduct a full-and-open competition for the Center Maintenance, Operations and Engineering II contract in support of ...
By Cameron Chehreh, Vice President and General Manager of Public Sector at Intel and 2023 Wash100 Award winner One doesn’t need to look far to discover a tapestry of ways in which the federal government is successfully leveraging artificial intelligence. From the Air Force using AI to plan airlift operations to neuromorphic computing being used...
Jerry Boegler, vice president of growth for Axient‘s national security and space systems segment since June 2021, has been promoted to the chief growth officer role. He will lead strategy development, advise on merger-and-acquisition activity and supervise teams focused on business development, capture, proposal and pricing functions, Axient s...
The U.S. Air Force expects to issue a request for proposals by the end of August for a potential five-year, $200 million contract designed to address engineering requirements at Eglin Air Force Base and associated facilities in Florida. The Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirements is reserved for 8(a) small businesses and will use the...
J&J Worldwide Services has booked a pair of task orders to help the Defense Health Agency maintain two military medical facilities in Hawaii. The awards, issued under a $99 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle, cover operation, maintenance, minor construction and repair services at the Tripler Army Medical Center in H...
Shankar Rachkonda has been an entrepreneur at heart for a long time, so it wasn’t a question if he was going to start a business, just a matter of when. After earning a mechanical engineering bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in engineering, he built a career working in large businesses serving government and commercial entities as...
