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TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 16, 2018 — ECS will work to provide technical, administrative, financial and business services in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency through its prime position on an $850M contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 19. The company said Oct. 18 the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Technical and Analytical Support Services contract …

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has booked a pair of contracts worth up to $600M combined to develop artificial intelligence, data automation and analytic technologies for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. The company said Wednesday it will lead efforts to manage elevation content and precise imagery through the NGA’s Janus initiative. Dave Wajsgras, president …

Novetta closed third quarter having booked $410M in contract awards in 2018 and expects to close the year with a year-over-year increase of 49 percent in new contract work. The company said Monday one of its achievements this year was securing a spot on the U.S. Army’s potential $37.4B Responsive Strategic …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 5, 2018 — Alion Science and Technology will offer new artificial intelligence technologies built on agile engineering approaches with the goal to facilitate human-machine teaming in defense and security applications, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 8. The company said Oct. 5 its new AI capabilities are centered on the use …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 30, 2018 — Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has said the company will continue to work with the government to help shape the use of artificial intelligence and other technologies and support efforts to protect the U.S. against threats, ExecutiveBiz …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 24, 2018 — Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has established partnerships with Cybraics and Authentic8 in an effort to advance artificial intelligence, analytics and isolated browser technology to bolster the cybersecurity of financial, health, electoral and other critical infrastructure systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 3. Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 23, 2018 — Dave Vennergrund, director of data and analytics at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has said federal agencies can utilize the cloud as a platform for the development of artificial intelligence technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 1. He wrote Sept. 27 in a …

Chris Usserman, principal security and threat intelligence adviser at Infoblox, has said countering cyber threats calls for agencies to further develop their cybersecurity programs through automation and orchestration. Usserman wrote that orchestration and automation could help agencies “embrace both the proactive and reactive functions of cybersecurity” through the combination of …

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has launched a new organization to build communications and computing platforms for government and commercial aerospace applications. Charles Toups, formerly vice president and general manager of Boeing’s research and technology unit, will lead the Disruptive Computing and Networks organization that will operate in Southern California as part …

Patrick Sullivan, senior director of global security strategy at Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM), has said agencies that aim to eliminate cyber vulnerabilities should use DevOps and agile methods. “Agencies need to be extremely agile to stay ahead of vulnerabilities, and as they move to models that are heavily based on …