One university and six companies have secured contracts from the National Institutes of Health to produce digital health tools in support of coronavirus response efforts. The awardees will aim to develop software, wearable devices or mobile applications intended for contact tracing, health monitoring and test results tracking, NIH said Tuesday....
Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has received a potential five-year, $68.5M contract to support the Missile Defense Agency’s Concepts and Performance Lab program. MTSI will identify, evaluate and mature new technology platforms and future tech concepts such as cruise missiles, hypersonics, quantum science, artificial intelligence and machine lea...
Gerry Fasano, president of Leidos’ defense group, was presented his 2020 Wash100 Award for the first time in his long career in the government contracting (GovCon) sector. Fasano received his first Wash100 Award from Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, on Thursday. Visit the Wash100 site to learn about the other 99 winners of the...
August Jackson, senior director of Market and Competitive Intelligence at Deltek, will be featured as a keynote speaker during ArchIntel’s AI in Competitive Intelligence Virtual Event. After his address, Jackson will moderate the expert panel, hosting Suki Fuller from The Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows, Fred Hoffman with Mercyhurst Un...
Veritas Capital has scheduled Oct. 1 as the date the private equity firm expects to complete its pending $5B cash acquisition of the U.S. state and local health and human services unit from DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC)....
William Phillips, vice president for Army and Special Operations Forces field marketing at Boeing (NYSE: BA) and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has been appointed to serve on Day & Zimmermann's board of advisers. The 38-year Army veteran brings to the D&Z advisory board his experience in areas such as defense contracting, secur...
The Department of Defense reaffirmed its decision to award the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) in early September but a joint status report issued by the Court of Federal Claims Tuesday reveals several scenarios that could extend the JEDI contract protest into 2021, the Washington Bus...
Boeing (NYSE: BA), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Google, ColdQuanta, QC Ware and Zapata Computing signed participation agreements to join the steering committee of a consortium tasked with advancing research in quantum information science and identifying standards, technology and workforce needs to support the emerging QIS-based industry....
Rebecca John, vice president of capture at ECS, recently caught up with ArchIntel to give her perspective on how analytics tools are helping human analysts drive insights from data and her outlook on how both technology and people could advance the competitive intelligence process in the coming years. This the 22nd in a series of interviews with CI ...
Maximus (NYSE: MMS) has appointed Andrew Sommers, formerly a senior policy adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services, to oversee a newly formed business unit that will focus on supporting public health initiatives in the government sector....
