The Department of Commerce has formed a consortium comprising more than 200 artificial intelligence developers and researchers from government, industry and academia to help create standards for the development and use of trustworthy AI technologies. The U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium includes companies such as Accenture (NYSE: ACN), Amazon (Na...
Chris Jenkins, formerly chief administrative officer at Akima, has been named president of the construction and security solutions group at the Herndon, Virginia-based technology services contractor. He will drive efforts to grow and expand the company’s construction and security capabilities into new markets and customer base, Akima said Thur...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and code intelligence platforms provider Sourcegraph have teamed up to provide government customers with software development tools powered by generative artificial intelligence. Under the exclusive alliance, Leidos said Thursday it will contribute its expertise in secure software delivery in support of federal government mission...
Daniel Fenza, formerly president and CEO at MRO Innovators, said on LinkedIn Thursday he has joined a Chenega subsidiary as chief growth officer. He will spearhead growth initiatives at Chenega’s Environmental, Healthcare & Facilities Strategic Business Unit, which offers professional staffing and support services to federal agencies, inclu...
Chugach Technical Solutions has secured a potential 10-year, $124.3 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to manufacture unclassified video systems for the U.S. Navy ships. The Department of Defense said Thursday the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic received one bid for the contract, which has a five-year base period valu...
SoftBank Group-backed data security software firm Cohesity has agreed to buy the data protection business of Veritas in a cash-and-stock transaction to form a combined entity valued at approximately $7 billion, Reuters reported Thursday. Cohesity is a San Jose, California-based company that offers artificial intelligence-based software to help organ...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded 17 companies positions on a potential $499 million contract to design, develop, test and deliver anti-tamper systems to protect critical program information and technologies from adversarial tamper efforts. The Air Force Life Cycle Management at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio launched a competitive acquisition...
The U.S. Army has selected Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Global Military Products, a division of Global Ordnance, to compete for orders under a $133.9 million special ammunition and weapons system production contract. Army Contracting Command received two bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online solicitation and will determine work lo...
The government of Poland’s potential $1.2 billion acquisition of airspace and surface radar reconnaissance aerostat systems has been approved by the U.S. Department of State. The prime contractors of the deal will be Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) company, aerostat maker TCOM, ELTA North America and Avantus Federal, a subsidiary of QinetiQ Group...
Tim Solms, a technology executive with over three decades of combined military and industry experience, has been named CEO of space tracking and data analytics company Slingshot Aerospace. The U.S. Army veteran will join the company’s board of directors and oversee innovation, growth and expansion initiatives across the domestic and internatio...
