Tag Archives: artificial intelligence

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 21, 2018 — Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization for Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) intelligence, information and services business, has highlighted the company’s use of the crowd development strategy to drive potential technology pursuits and investments, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Probert wrote in a Breaking Defense guest …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 21, 2018 — Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) has unveiled a free service that will work to bolster the cybersecurity of websites for political organizations and candidates using artificial intelligence technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Tuesday the AI-powered service is designed to verify the security and authenticity of …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 17, 2018 — Fluor (NYSE: FLR) will deploy IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) Watson artificial intelligence and analytic technologies to build real-time diagnostic tools that will work to monitor complex engineering, procurement and construction projects, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The EPC Project Health Diagnostics and Market Dynamics/Spend Analytics systems will …

Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report of a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the newly established Army Futures Command that seeks to accelerate the acquisition and deployment of new technology platforms to soldiers. Gen. John Murray, head of Army Futures Command, appeared before HASC’s readiness subcommittee on Thursday …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 14, 2018 — Carahsoft Technology will offer government agencies an artificial intelligence platform from Senzing that works to establish identities and distinguish patterns and relationships using data across multiple sources, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Senzing said Wednesday Carahsoft will market the Entity Resolution 2.0 technology to the public sector as master government …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a potential $2B campaign that seeks to invest in research-and-development programs that focus on artificial intelligence. The AI Next campaign is a multi-year investment effort that aims to develop “third wave” AI technologies with contextual reasoning capabilities designed to facilitate human-machine collaboration, DARPA …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 7, 2018 — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has partnered with the Drone Racing League to establish a competition focused on utilizing artificial intelligence to operate an unmanned aircraft system, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday participants in the $2M AlphaPilot Innovation Challenge will be tasked to develop an …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 23, 2018 — Jennifer Chronis, general manager of the Defense Department business area at Amazon Web Services, has said cloud-based machine learning and artificial intelligence tools can drive DoD agencies’ efforts to support the warfighter mission, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 9. Chronis told Government Matters in an interview …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 20, 2018 — Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) hosted a demonstration to close an eight-week NASA research program that focused on using artificial intelligence to address challenges in space science and exploration missions, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the NASA Frontier Development Lab Event Horizon 2018: AI+Space Challenge …

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has received a potential five-year, $885 million contract to help the U.S. Government Program Office build and integrate an open systems architecture for enterprise machine learning analytics and persistent services. The company said Monday it aims to deliver an eMAPS platform for the USG Program Office, Defense Department associates …