Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) has rolled out a central processing unit designed to help customers manage high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads at data centers. Grace CPU uses processor technology from U.K.-based semiconductor vendor Arm and supports natural language processing model training, Nvidia said Monday. Jensen Huang, foun...
Barbara McQuiston, who is performing the duties of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said the Department of Defense has established a steering group focused on innovation, Nextgov reported Tuesday. “We’re very lucky we just started the innovation steering group under Deputy Secretary [Kathleen] Hicks, and what we...
Searchlight Capital Partners, a private investment firm, has agreed to buy Technical Airborne Components from TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG) for an undisclosed sum. Belgium-based TAC designs and produces rods and struts for helicopters, commercial planes, military aircraft and space programs and operates with about 170 employees, the companies said in ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will develop a new supercomputer for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in early 2023 under an expanded collaboration with LANL. The new supercomputer will provide the national lab with analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities to help researchers facilitate simulation and mode...
GovCon Wire will feature Dave Zvenyach, deputy commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service and director of Technology Transformation Services at the General Services Administration, as the keynote speaker for an upcoming event about government procurement trends. Zvenyach will speak at the Innovation and Modernization in Federal Acquisitions For...
President Joe Biden said the U.S. should invest in its semiconductor infrastructure to address the current chip shortage, NBC News reported Tuesday. “These chips, these wafers … batteries, broadband — it’s all infrastructure. We need to build the infrastructure of today and not repair the one of yesterday,” Biden said Monday during the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 12, 2021 — Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS) and cybersecurity services provider Steel Root have formed a partnership with the intent to help defense companies address compliance requirements while preparing for an audit under the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, ExecutiveBiz reported Ma...
Sandra Hinzman, senior vice president of contracts and property at Science Applications International Corp., will moderate a panel discussion at GovCon Wire’s upcoming Innovation and Modernization in Federal Acquisitions Forum scheduled for Thursday, April 15. Hinzman has worked for SAIC since 1992 and oversees contractual aspects of the compa...
Nikon has purchased a majority stake in additive manufacturing company Morf3D for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to drive growth in digital manufacturing and advance aerospace collaboration. Yuichi Shibazaki, corporate vice president and general manager of Next Generation Project Division at Nikon, said in a statement published Tuesday Morf3D...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is nearing a potential deal to acquire Burlington, Massachusetts-based artificial intelligence technology developer Nuance Communications (Nasdaq: NUAN) for $56 per share, or approximately $16 billion, Bloomberg reported Sunday. The estimated price of the transaction is a premium of 23 percent to Nuance’s Friday closin...
