The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has asked vendors to submit information about space weather data offerings as the agency looks to expand its information-gathering platforms. NOAA said Wednesday it will use input from the commercial sector to plan future pilot studies and acquisition programs. The agency is interested in learning ...
Tom McCaffery, former assistant secretary for health affairs at the Department of Defense, has joined research and consulting firm Health Management Associates as a principal. He will work from HMA’s office in Washington, D.C. and brings military health care program experience to his new position, the company said Wednesday. McCaffery noted th...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has won a potential five-year, $785 million task order to develop information and electronic warfare platforms for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command to address emerging threats. The single-award task order would expand mission support services the company provides to USASOC and the command’s strategic par...
Four former Internal Revenue Service officials have joined the citizen services team at Peraton to lead and support the company’s engagements with the agency. Julie Rushin, who previously served as deputy CIO for information technology at IRS, will be director of Peraton’s IRS portfolio, the company said Friday. Rushin brings 38 years of...
A proposed $1.75 trillion social safety net spending and climate change bill known as the Build Back Better Act includes language that would require a 1 percent tax on stock repurchases, a provision that could have a potential impact on defense companies, Defense One reported Friday. The Build Back Better framework seeks to “stop large,...
Federal agencies are working to integrate artificial intelligence into their infrastructures as they iteratively replace outdated legacy systems and optimize essential operations to match adversarial capabilities in the digital age. As a boost to this critical initiative, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio introduced the Adv...
The costs associated with artificial intelligence development, training and implementation will be the focal point of discussions for the next event in the Potomac Officers Club’s Data-Driven 2021 Series. Timothy Grayson, director of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Strategic Technology Office, will kick off the “The ...
The National Reconnaissance Office has released a request for proposals for commercial satellite imagery services to support Earth observation requirements at federal civilian, defense and intelligence agencies. NRO said Wednesday its Electro-Optical Commercial Layer procurement effort is open to domestic businesses and the agency expects to issue m...
Acacia Research Corp. (Nasdaq: ACTG) has made an unsolicited offer to acquire wireless communications equipment provider Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL). Melville, New York-based Comtech said its board of directors is working with the company’s independent advisers to evaluate the non-binding takeover proposal. Goldman Sachs serves a...
Former Department of Defense officials Jack Gumtow, Scott Howell and Patricia Stokes have joined the board of advisers of artificial intelligence software provider Babel Street. They will advise the leadership team on approaches to help customers implement the company’s analytics software platform, Babel Street said Wednesday. Gumtow, a three-...
