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Artificial intelligence software maker C3.ai has received a potential five-year, $95M contract from the Department of Defense's innovation arm to provide an AI-based technology for aircraft maintenance use.

A new Deltek report forecasts that the addressable information technology market for Department of Defense contractors will increase to $55.7B in fiscal year 2024 from $53B in FY19. Another report from the Herndon, Va.-based company predicts that the intelligence community will increase IT investments to $11B in FY24 from $9.9B in FY19.

The total value of unclassified information technology contracts awarded by the federal government during its 2019 fiscal year increased by 6 percent to $69B and nearly $40B of the obligated funds came from the Department of Defense, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday.

The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security is seeking feedback on a final rule requiring U.S. companies to secure a license to market artificial intelligence-based geospatial imagery technology to foreign countries other than Canada.

F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV) has agreed to acquire Santa Clara, Calif.-based Shape Security for approximately $1B in cash as both companies aim to help government and enterprise customers secure digital experience with integrated offerings.

Rob Davies of ViON and Anthony Robbins of NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) told MeriTalk in an interview published Tuesday about the needs and factors federal agencies should consider to operationalize artificial intelligence.

Stephanie Thum, chief adviser of federal customer experience at Qualtrics, has said government agencies need both experience data and operational data to come up with a comprehensive strategy for managing customer experience.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 10, 2019 — Cubic’s (NYSE: CUB) mission solutions business released a graphics processing unit module designed to support tactical data processing at the edge, Executive Biz reported Dec. 3.

CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a potential five-year, $438M task order to provide services in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs.

Kevin Scott, chief technology officer of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), will assume additional duties as executive vice president of artificial intelligence and research in early 2020, CNBC reported Wednesday.