The U.S. Army has tapped Science Applications International Corp. to modernize its signals intelligence and electronic warfare systems under a $232 million contract. Josh Jackson, executive vice president of the Army Business Group at SAIC, said the company is committed to continuing its support for the service branch in fulfilling its mission, especially those involving […]
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a seven-year blanket purchase agreement worth up to $431 million to provide artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise. The Scientific Modeling, Application, Visualization, Computational Science, Software and Statistical Support blanket purchase agreement will see the company supplementing the EPA’s Office of Research and Development’s mission to […]
Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux platform will be the operating system for El Capitan, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s first exascale supercomputer. Located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, El Capitan will be used to ensure the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile and aid in scientific research in climate science, computational biology, high energy-density […]
A team at the Defense Contract Management Agency has transitioned to the new Contract Administration Management System, automating the analysis of contractor on-time delivery data. Craig Morgan, chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at DCMA, said that with the addition of on-time delivery information and contractor effectiveness capabilities to CAMS, the agency gains flexibility and […]
Groq announced that it has entered into a partnership with Carahsoft Technology to offer rapid artificial intelligence inference capabilities to government customers. Carahsoft President Craig P. Abod, a 2024 Wash100 winner, said that the collaboration enables public agencies to be early adopters of AI while customizing the technology according to their daily operations. Available through […]
The Office of Management and Budget is working to manage 10,000 public-facing federal websites to ensure that each meets existing standards. In an interview with Federal News Network, Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana, a past Wash100 awardee, said that OMB is working with agency partners, screening the websites and ensuring that each agency has […]
New York City-based blockchain intelligence company Chainalysis Government Solutions announced that its Crypto Investigations solution has received an in-process designation from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. An offering of the company’s Chainalysis Government Solutions, the platform is designed for law enforcers, including intelligence, tax and regulatory agents, to uncover leads, assess illicit activities, […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded Leidos a contract worth up to $206 million to modernize its geospatial processing software. Part of the NGA’s Exploitation Services Program, the five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract aims to improve the efficiency and interoperability of the agency’s systems, Leidos said. Under the Maru contract, Leidos will leverage its expertise in mission-critical […]
The National Science Foundation and Northeastern University are collaborating to better understand the long-term impact of using generative artificial intelligence and large language models on society. Under a $9 million grant, the higher education institution’s research work will contribute to the National Deep Inference Fabric, a platform that offers students and researchers access to a […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has given provisional authorization to SAP National Security Services’ SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. The authorization allows SAP NS2 to deploy its cloud applications within the Department of Defense’s secure cloud environment authorized at FedRAMP+Impact Level 4, which defines the security required to handle sensitive defense information related to various […]
