Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has received a $250 million contract from the U.S. Army to research and develop artificial intelligence and machine learning tools for U.S. military applications. Army Contracting Command is the contracting activity and will determine work locations and budget upon the issuance of each contract order, the Departmen...
The U.S. Air Force awarded LMI two task orders with a combined value of $98 million to support Phase III development of the Rapid Analysis Prototyping Toolkit for Resiliency software. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract was granted under the Space Integrated Modeling Simulation and Analysis segment of the Small Business Innovation R...
Dan Whitcher, an enterprise information technology executive with nearly three decades of combined government and industry experience, has joined VSE (Nasdaq: VSEC) as chief information officer, according to a recently published LinkedIn post. Whitcher will provide strategic leadership and day-to-day operational oversight of VSE’s enterprise I...
Government AI Events Guide: Top 10 Conferences and Summits provide essential detail about the Artificial Intelligence trends in the industry. Artificial Intelligence means the capacity of a computer or computer-controlled robot to perform jobs typically performed by humans. Initially, the purpose of artificial intelligence is to supplement human cap...
Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) has agreed to acquire Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) for approximately $28 billion in a transaction that will enable the San Jose, California-based technology company to expand its capabilities meant to help organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to improve security and digital resilience. The boards of directors of C...
The State Department has approved Saudi Arabia’s request to procure combat vehicle fleet services from the U.S. government for $500 million as part of a Cooperative Logistics Supply Support Arrangement program, Foreign Military Sales Order II. The potential deal covers the provision of common spares and repair parts for the Saudi Arabian army&...
The Senate on Wednesday voted 83-11 to confirm Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He succeeds Army Gen. Mark Milley, a four-time Wash100 Award winner who took the helm of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in October 2019. The White House...
The U.S. Air Force has decided to cancel a potential 10-year, $5.3 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for enterprise cybersecurity support services due to its inability to achieve a “manageable number of prime contract awards” using the established procurement strategy and source selection evaluation procedures. The service...
Lisa Mascolo, a more than 20-year technology industry veteran, has been named CEO of GCOM following the government technology firm’s merger with information technology consulting services provider OnCore Consulting. Mascolo, a two-time Wash100 awardee who serves on the board of directors of the combined company, succeeds Kamal Bherwani, who wi...
HiddenLayer, a provider of cybersecurity tools for artificial intelligence applications, has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) venture capital arm M12 and Moore Strategic Ventures. The AI security company said Tuesday it will use the capital to advance the development of its machine learning se...
