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AE Industrial Partners has purchased a majority stake in analytics and artificial intelligence platforms provider NuWave Solutions for an undisclosed sum and announced the addition of industry veterans Reggie Brothers and Michael Buscher to NuWave’s leadership team.

SOS International has merged into a single group its intelligence solutions and defense information technology business units as part of a reorganization effort. Ed Bachl, formerly CEO and co-founder of Vykin, will oversee the newly combined defense and intelligence solutions group as senior vice president.

U.S. Special Operations Command has released a request for information on potential contractors that could provide support services for its Global Analytics Platform. A notice published Friday says USSOCOM intends to award a single- or multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the GAP program with a ceiling value of between $300M and $600M and an ordering period of five to 10 years.

The U.S. Air Force has asked industry for information on a next-generation unmanned aircraft system with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance functions and strike capabilities.

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has launched a three-phase Entrepreneurs Challenge focused on leveraging emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics to advance mission goals.

Black Cape Co-CEOs Abe Usher and Al Di Leonardo said automation technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning could help government agencies accelerate analysis of large data volumes and glean insights from data. They wrote about the three frameworks – TensorFlow, PyTorch and PyTorch scikit-learn – and how they help agencies and other organizations simplify AI adoption.

Four lawmakers have proposed a bicameral bill to strengthen U.S. scientific and technological edge through increased investments in the development and commercialization of emerging technologies. The bipartisan Endless Frontier Act would change the name of the National Science Foundation to National Science and Technology Foundation and create a technology directorate within NSTF to advance research in 10 tech focus areas, including artificial intelligence and machine learning; high-performance computing; cybersecurity and data storage; and robotics, automation and advanced manufacturing.

Susie Adams, chief technology officer at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), said cloud helps advance artificial intelligence by enabling data analysis and sharing to improve mission outcomes. "Cloud technology has given us vast capacity for data storage and nearly unlimited compute capacity to take advantage of AI, which is democratizing the ability for end users, not just data scientists, to build and run machine learning algorithms," Adams wrote.

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has been selected to develop, test and deploy deep-learning technologies for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office under a potential five-year, $50M blanket purchase agreement.

David Egts, chief technologist of the North America public sector at Red Hat, said the government could help accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence through the use of open-source tools and a "light-touch approach to regulating AI."