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The Department of Defense released a strategy to facilitate its transformation into a data-centric organization that considers data as a strategic asset critical to building and maintaining operational advantage on the battlefield. The Data Strategy "reinforces DOD’s priority focus areas of joint warfighting, senior leader decision support and data analytics,” Chief Data Officer Dave Spirk said.

Information technology consulting company Unissant has won six-year task orders worth $229.5M combined to help modernize the Customs and Border Protection’s software and technologies for analysis and targeting operations.

ASGN (NYSE: ASGN) has acquired Skyris for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its expertise and offerings in geospatial and open source intelligence and data analytics to federal government customers.

Oracle has expanded its Government Cloud to support demand, with the addition of National Security Regions for Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) customers, the company reported on Wednesday. Oracle expanded its platform to address IC and DoD needs at Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Impact Level 6, Secret and Top Secret security levels, with capabilities including encryption, auditing and security controls. 

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Herndon, Va.-based artificial intelligence platform maker Geospark Analytics a potential five-year, $95M contract to help the U.S. Space Force commercialize the company's Hyperion predictive analytics technology.

BAE Systems has received a $19M contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to design a wargaming center prototype that will incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, modeling and simulation processes.

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has won a potential three-year, $201M task order from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide DevOps support services to help develop, customize and improve applications across the VA enterprise using Microsoft Dynamics 365 software, G2Xchange Health reported Wednesday.

Bill Weber, a more than three-decade national security and technology industry leader, has joined the board of directors of Arlington, Va.-based government services contractor Buchanan & Edwards.

HawkEye 360, a Herndon, Va.-based radio frequency data analytics company, has appointed Terry McAuliffe, former governor of Virginia, and Chris Inglis, former deputy director of the National Security Agency, to the board of advisers.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has issued a broad agency announcement to seek white papers on artificial intelligence, machine learning and analytics for an embedded deep learning research program aimed at integrating autonomous systems into U.S. Air Force platforms.