The Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has awarded Scale AI a $249 million blanket purchase agreement to develop platforms for testing machine learning, deep learning and neural network architectures. Scale AI said Monday it will make the company’s technology available to federal clients as JAIC’s governme...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 31, 2022 — Alex Whitworth, director of sales at Carahsoft Technology, has advised defense contractors to look over their security practices and bridge identified gaps because the second iteration of the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is nearing finalization, ExecutiveBiz rep...
Technical and professional services provider RSC2 has acquired a TriMech Services division that offers systems engineering, modeling and simulation services to the Department of Defense. The transaction gives RSC2 access to the Army’s Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services and Joint Enterprise Research, Development, Acquisition and Procure...
On Wednesday, the Potomac Officers Club hosted its 8th Annual Defense R&D Summit which featured preeminent leaders across defense agencies and industry who gathered to discuss the top research and development initiatives shaping next-generation technology acquisition strategies, infrastructure modernization plans and innovation priorities with...
President Joe Biden has signed a memorandum that outlines requirements to improve the cybersecurity of Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and national security systems in accordance with the cybersecurity executive order issued in May 2021. The National Security Memorandum provides timelines and guidance on how the federal government will...
GovCon Wire Events on Thursday hosted the Department of Defense: Digital Modernization Forum where distinguished defense agency and private sector leaders talked about technology procurement efforts, infrastructural priorities, modernization strategies and cultural shifts affecting how Defense Department agencies, military service branches and ...
Ellen Lord, former undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, has joined the board of directors of GEOST, a Tucson, Arizona-based provider of sensors for national security space missions. She will advise GEOST’s management team and provide insights to help the company expand its research and development initiative...
The Department of Defense is ramping up its modernization efforts with critical funding boosts and newly created senior executive roles to match the speed of rapid global developments and combat urgent pacing challenges. Defense spending for fiscal year 2022 has increased by five percent from the previous fiscal year’s defense policy measure. In D...
Merck’s life science business has been awarded a three-year, $136.7 million contract to stand up a factory for a critical material needed to manufacture rapid COVID-19 point-of-care tests. MilliporeSigma said Thursday it will use the funds to establish a lateral flow membrane production facility in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to support domestic pro...
Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a previous Wash100 awardee, is scheduled to deliver an opening keynote speech at the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit on Jan. 19. She acts as the chief technology officer for DOD and oversees department-wide resear...
