The National Science Foundation has started soliciting proposals for the fourth competition of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program and expects to make up to five awards in fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The fourth National AI Research Institutes competition is anticipated to reach up to $100 million in total funding and wil...
The Department of Energy has indicated its intent to extend by six months the ordering period of a procurement vehicle involving eight contractors that provide support services to its statistical and analytical agency. DOE said Monday that extending the Energy Information Administration Omnibus Procurement IV vehicle would give the department more...
Recorded Future‘s Threat Intelligence Fund has invested in Hunt.io, a startup that produces security data from scanning and incident observations of network infrastructure. The Hunt platform works by deploying “millions of probes” to track threat actor movements within a network and offer organizations an in-depth insight into malicious ac...
The U.S. Navy has disclosed that Boeing (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) are pursuing the airframe development contract for the next-generation fighter jet program, dubbed F/A-XX, Aviation Week reported Sunday. Pratt & Whitney and GE Aerospace are competing to build the engine for the service branch’...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) space business has secured a $315.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for continued work in support of the service branch’s intermediate range hypersonic missile program. The award covers options for equipment design, development, construction and integration for the Navy Intermediate Range Co...
Matt Pinkston, a nearly four-decade veteran of the technology and government contracting sectors, has joined bidding intelligence system provider Procurement Sciences AI as chief growth officer. His appointment comes as PSci.AI aims to help government contractors build a competitive advantage through artificial intelligence-based automation technolo...
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a potential $2.7 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to develop and deliver 35 more CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters. The contract includes the development of 12 units of Lot 7 CH-53Ks and 15 Lot 8 aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps and eight helicopters for Israel’...
Laura Kurup, a data and analytics professional, will assume the role of principal director for data science innovation at Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal government subsidiary on Sept. 11. In this capacity, she will help Accenture Federal Services‘ agency customers address mission-critical challenges using data science, artificial intell...
A subsidiary of BAE Systems‘ U.S. business arm will provide software development and maintenance, technical support and fleet services under a $91.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy. BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services was tapped to deliver system and subsystem support services to the Navy, Marine Corps, Military Sealift Command, ...
NASA has started soliciting proposals for a potential 10-year, follow-on contract covering research operations, maintenance and engineering support services to Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The space agency intends to conduct a full-and-open competition for the Center Maintenance, Operations and Engineering II contract in support of ...
