When most people think of generative artificial intelligence, these days they’re thinking of commercial large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude or Microsoft Copilot. But genAI, as it’s known, also has immense utility in the public sector space as a data organization tool and to automate certain customer experience pro...
In the last year, the U.S. government has made some decisive steps toward the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies, including an executive order issued in October that lays the groundwork for AI in the federal government. But defense experts say there are still roadblocks toward widespread AI across the public sector. For one, the Penta...
Leonardo DRS (Nasdaq: DRS) has secured a potential five-year, $177.9 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide support services for several combat vehicles. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract covers support for Abrams M1 tank family of vehicles, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, M88 Recovery FoVs, Assault Breacher Vehicles and Joint Assault Bridges, the...
Allison Sheehan was elevated to the role of chief financial officer at information technology company RavenTek, where she previously served as financial controller. She will now have oversight of all financial management and strategy aspects and help map RavenTek’s future trajectory, the digital transformation and cybersecurity services provid...
Department of Defense Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Leslie Beavers has joined the Wash100 ranks for the first time in recognition of her work driving information technology modernization and cybersecurity efforts across the DOD. Vote for Beavers as your favorite Wash100 winner at Wash100.com! The Wash100 popular vote competition is o...
Recent momentum in artificial intelligence could be seen as a largely American enterprise, led by domestic companies such as OpenAI and federal government initiatives from the likes of the Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office — not to mention multiple presidential executive orders on the matter. However, U.S. ...
Sayres Defense, a portfolio company of Charlotte, North Carolina-based private equity firm Broadtree Partners, has acquired Global Systems Technologies for an undisclosed sum as part of expansion efforts in the government contracting sector. GST provides model-based systems engineering, test and evaluation support, research and development and logis...
Project Maven was launched in 2017 to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence across the U.S. military. The initiative has made tremendous strides in its efforts to explore new AI technologies, and in November, it became a program of record at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Rachael Martin, director of NGA’s Maven Office a...
Srini Dixit was named chief financial officer of CAE‘s defense and security business, joining the Arlington, Texas-located aviation services company from RTX‘s (NYSE: RTX) Raytheon subsidiary where he previously worked as vice president and CFO of its air power strategic business unit. He announced his appointment to the CAE Defense &...
While artificial intelligence is still a growing technology and comes with its share of risks and unknowns, some experts feel that the U.S. government is being too conservative about releasing information to the public regarding AI. “I think we all recognize we do not want to put out and jeopardize information that’s important to the...
