Like many government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection manages petabytes of data flowing through it every day. They perform an estimated 50 billion data exchanges and 10 billion transactions daily. This also means there are roughly 100 million cyber attack attempts per day on their network, accordin...
Artificial intelligence has presented the U.S. Department of Energy with an opportunity to revolutionize the way it carries out its mission. Ann Dunkin, chief information officer of the DOE, has identified the analysis of climate-focused technologies like solar panels as just one potential benefit. Though new AI technologies could be groundbreaking...
Scott Alexander, formerly a vice president at RTX (NYSE: RTX) business Raytheon has been named president of missile solutions at Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) subsidiary, according to his LinkedIn post. Alexander joined the L3Harris subsidiary after serving as VP of integrated missile defense solutions at Raytheon since Ju...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded basic ordering agreements to 12 companies as part of the third pool of the STRATUS program for cloud software-as-a-service offerings. USDA released a request for quotes in late September and received 41 quotes for STRATUS Cloud SaaS BOA Pool 3, according to an award notice published Friday on...
The U.S. Air Force has started soliciting industry feedback to help inform the acquisition strategy for a potential 10-year, follow-on contract for operation and maintenance support services at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The Eglin Operation and Maintenance Services II Program will support research and development, training missions and test an...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) presented its Q1 2024 financial results, in which total revenue reacched $203.9 million, although slightly lower by 0.7 percent from a year ago. Notably, the voice and data satellite communications provider’s net income increased 101.1 percent year-over-year to $19.65 million, while the subscriber base g...
Deloitte Consulting will provide advanced manufacturing support and enterprisewide digital manufacturing data vault capabilities and services under a potential seven-year, $99.8 million other transaction production agreement with the U.S. Navy. The majority of the contract work will occur in Arlington, Virginia, through April 2031, the Department of...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded 18 companies positions on a 10-year, follow-on contract for professional, technical and scientific services in the oceans domain. NOAA competed the ProTech 2.0 Oceans Domain contract as a total small business set-aside program with 19 offers received during the first phase and 19 propos...
Artificial intelligence has unlocked a myriad of threats and opportunities in the last two years with the acceleration of technological innovation in the AI space. Today, generative AI tools and large language models are still nascent and risky — but government leaders are seeing promise for the technology’s future. Defense Intelligence Agency C...
The U.S. Army has started soliciting information from stakeholders to help inform its acquisition approach for the planned Army Contracting Command Enterprise for Sourcing Services procurement program, also known as ACCESS. ACCESS will be the successor to the multiple-award Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qu...
