The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office is seeking vendors to develop software prototypes for the Joint AI Test Infrastructure Capability project. CDAO Test and Evaluation Directorate issued a call to industry notice on Nov. 21 in pursuit of AI technologies capable of object detection and computer vision cl...
The Defense Information Systems Agency and Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) are collaborating to launch a cloud-based telephony infrastructure in an effort to provide Department of Defense employees with virtual phone access via a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) business communication platform. Lumen was awarded a $221 million contract to deploy and operate...
ManTech will continue to provide specialized security support services to the U.S. Space Force under a one-year, $43.5 million contract modification. The company will help secure acquisition and operational mission areas at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. ...
The two main concepts on which the U.S. Army’s cyber team is concentrated in order to protect its information are time and scale. Responding to potential threats in “machine time” in order to diminish the blast radius of a harmful event is crucial, as is executing cybersecurity that matches the breadth of resources in need of...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) reported Tuesday that the space and intelligence work-related contracts it booked for the third quarter of fiscal year 2023 reached an estimated $950 million. The contract awards include projects in space systems, intelligence, joint all-domain command and control as well as model-based systems e...
By Cameron Chehreh It has become a cliché to say digital technology has transformed every aspect of our lives and that businesses need to embrace digital transformation to compete in the marketplace. It has likewise become conventional wisdom to note that government agencies must digitize internal processes and external service delivery to fulfill ...
Over the last eight-plus years, Bill Webner has helped information technology services and consulting company Capgemini better serve federal customers in the national security, defense, civil and health sectors. Through his work as vice president of the organization’s Government Solutions arm, Webner has overseen digital transformation e...
Cybersecurity platforms provider Cycurion has agreed to merge with blank check company Western Acquisition Ventures (Nasdaq: WAVS) in a transaction that would take the former public and give the combined entity a total pro forma equity value of about $271.63 million. The boards of directors of Cycurion and Western have unanimously approved the deal ...
As the cloud increasingly dominates both public and private sector operations, its impact on procurement has become a topic of focus in recent years. According to experts in the field, migrating to the cloud offers numerous benefits across process burdens, costs and timing. Michael Tocci, president of Paperless Innovations, elaborated on the perks o...
The volume, velocity and variety of data that organizations are dealing with has increased dramatically in recent years. While all this data poses new challenges to leaders — especially in the U.S. government — it can also unlock troves of important organizational insights if collected, analyzed and harnessed with the right tools. Rob Carey, pre...
