President Donald Trump signed Thursday an executive order to guide agencies on the adoption of artificial intelligence to facilitate the delivery of services to U.S. citizens and promote public trust in AI. The executive order establishes nine common principles for the design, development, use and acquisition of AI: lawful; accurate, reliable and ef...
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Ranking Member Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, issued a joint statement Wednesday saying both chambers of Congress have reached agreement on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021. ...
Gen. John Raymond, chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, has said the service branch plans to include nontraditional and legacy procurement offices in its planned acquisitions command, SpaceNews reported Wednesday....
The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to submit concept papers on kill chain integration platforms needed to ensure spectrum awareness of emerging threats. Topics of interest include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance advancement, machine learning and artificial intelligence, enhanced situational awareness, improvements to existing Air Fo...
Gartner has identified a MetTel telecommunications management company as a representative vendor in the research and advisory firm’s 2020 market guide for Telecom Expense Management Services....
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has agreed to purchase Slack Technologies (NYSE: WORK) for approximately $27.7B in a strategy to create a unified technology platform for enterprise collaboration and communication. Marc Benioff, chair and CEO of Salesforce, said the combination seeks to “shape the future of enterprise software and transform the way everyone...
Glenn Hickok, former president of MSAB's North American subsidiary, has been appointed vice president of the defense mission area at Noblis. Hickok brings more than 25 years of military and industry experience to his new position and will spearhead Noblis' engagement with Department of Defense customers, the nonprofit said Tuesday....
The State Department has cleared Canada's request to procure sustainment services and associated equipment for C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft, built by Boeing (NYSE: BA), from the U.S. government through a potential $275M foreign military sales agreement....
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will manufacture terrain-following/terrain-avoidance radar systems for the U.S. Special Operations Command under a multiyear, $235.6M contract....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 2, 2020 — Steve Orrin, chief technology officer at Intel’s (Nasdaq: INTC) federal arm, and Cameron Chehreh, CTO of Dell Technologies’ (NYSE: DELL) federal business, have advised federal agencies to consider hybrid cloud as an operating model to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence and 5G, ExecutiveBiz report...
