Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has received a two-year, $79.4 million contract to provide Small Diameter Bomb Increment 2 testing platforms to the U.S Air Force’s joint acquisition program with the U.S. Navy. The sole-source cost-plus-fixed-fee contract will also include tasks to assemble, test and integrate...
David Shive, chief information officer of the General Services Administration, has been selected to be the midday keynote speaker for the Potomac Officers Club’s Annual CIO Forum on Wednesday, April 7. Shive has led the GSA’s information technology enterprise over the past six years and concurrently serves as vice chairman of the CIO Cou...
The Potomac Officers Club’s 2nd Annual CIO Forum will feature a panel discussion on how the significant events of 2020 impacted the technology landscape in areas such as cloud computing, cyber, artificial intelligence and data science. Carlton “Bubba” Fox, a senior vice president and chief product officer at NCI Information Systems, will m...
General Atomics has acquired analytics and software engineering services provider Commonwealth Computer Research Inc. for an undisclosed sum in a move to help increase government customers’ access to situational awareness data. Charlottesville, Virginia-based CCRi works with public and private sector clients to help them adopt big data managem...
Funeral services in honor of Dr. Jack London, a 49-year veteran of CACI International (NYSE: CACI), are scheduled to take place at U.S. Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 18 at 2:00 p.m. and at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on June 19 at 10 a.m. An interment ceremony will be held...
John Frank, vice president of collaborative AI for industries at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said agencies seeking to derive insights from unstructured data should understand the potential benefits of adopting collaborative artificial intelligence. “For algorithms that combine human and machine processing, collaborative AI tightens the feedback loop s...
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is looking for potential sources that can provide assistance for AI development efforts across the Department of Defense. The U.S. Army Materiel Command said in a request for proposals posted Wednesday that the Data Readiness for AI Development basic ordering agreement covers data preparation and related serv...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to name Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics, as a recipient into the 2021 Wash100 Award for leading company initiatives in meeting federal government requirements and helping defend national security interests. The recognition marks Novakovic’s seventh Wash100 Award and her sixth consecutive year a...
Chief information officers (CIO) have in recent years spearheaded several new initiatives in both the private and public sectors. The COVID-19 Pandemic has exasperated CIOs’ need to increase the speed of change in the technology landscape. Modernizing cyber, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, information technology (IT), data, and machine le...
The Department of the Interior plans to award a potential 10-year, $250 million contract to Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm for services in support of an automated information system used by the Office of Natural Resources Revenue to collect, verify and distribute mineral revenues to stakeholders. DOI said in an award notice published Wedn...
