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    BullFrog Licenses Johns Hopkins APL-Built Data Analysis Tool Via DHS Program

    Artificial intelligence company BullFrog AI has licensed a data analysis tool developed by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory through the Department of Homeland Security‘s Transition to Practice Program. The licensing agreement grants BullFrog exclusive rights to use the Socrates data analysis platform for biopharmaceutical applications, DHS said Thursday. Socrates is built to determine patterns and relationships in large-scale and complex data sets […] More

  • in Government Cloud, Industry News

    CSRA Joins Google Cloud Partner Program; Larry Prior Comments

    Google has added CSRA to its Cloud Partner Program as both companies aim to implement artificial intelligence-based technology platforms in the federal sector. CSRA said Thursday the Falls Church, Virginia-based company seeks to expand its government IT offerings through the partnership. The Google Cloud Platform and G Suite are designed to help customers modernize enterprise operations. “Our longstanding relationship with the federal government […] More

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    Mythic Raises $40M in Lockheed-Backed Funding Round for AI Chip Tech

    Artificial intelligence chip developer Mythic has obtained $40 million in series B financing round led by SoftBank Ventures and backed by Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm, Data Collective, Lux Capital, DFJ, AME Cloud Ventures and Andy Bechtolsheim. Mythic said Wednesday it will use the investment to further develop a compute-in-memory technology designed to deliver the […] More

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    PARC, University of Wisconsin Partner to Develop AI-Based Design Automation Tool for DARPA

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected a team of Xerox‘s PARC subsidiary and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create artificial intelligence software that would automate design of complex mechanical systems. Xerox said Tuesday PARC and UW-Madison will collaborate to develop the Design by Function-sharing thrOugh Compositional qUalitative Synthesis platform through DARPA’s  Disruptioneering program. D-FOCUS will serve as a mathematical framework […] More

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    Boeing to Open New Research Center in South Korea

    Boeing is in talks with the South Korean government on the company’s plan to build a new research center in the East Asian country. The research center will support the development of technologies that can be integrated into future aerospace products such as autonomy, artificial intelligence, avionics, analytics, smart cabin and smart factory, Boeing said Wednesday. […] More

  • in Big Data & Analytics News, News

    HHS Seeks AI-Based Acquisition Support Tool

    The Health and Human Services Department has posted solicitations seeking contractors with the capacity to build an artificial intelligence tool for acquisition support, NextGov reported Monday. HHS intends for the future BUYSMARTER Acquisitions system to analytically process contract data through the use of AI, to generate information capable of supporting the department’s procurement activities. The system will be […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News, News

    DARPA Initiates Effort to Scrutinize Gray-zone of Conflict

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Strategic Technology Office has initiated an effort aiming to further understand and address the gray-zone of conflict, an area between peace and warfare wherein hostility is difficult to identify. Under the Collection and Monitoring via Planning for Active Situational Scenarios or COMPASS effort, DARPA seeks to construct software that makes use of stimuli-response […] More

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    Accenture: 54% of Adults Back Use of AI in Government Service Delivery

    A new Accenture survey indicates that 54 percent of adults aged 18 and older across six countries have expressed interest to adopt artificial intelligence systems used by the government to deliver public services. Accenture said Thursday it polled 6,000 citizens in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Germany, France and Singapore through an online survey performed from October through […] More

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    CNAS Forms Task Force to Help Address AI-Related National Security Challenges

    The Center for a New American Security has formed a task force to study how the U.S. government can address national security risks from artificial intelligence. CNAS said Thursday Robert Work, former deputy secretary at the Defense Department, will co-chair the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security alongside Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s School […] More

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    Executive Spotlight: An Interview With Eleanor Desai, Managing Partner at Clear Entropy

    ExecutiveBiz recently spoke with Eleanor Desai about Clear Entropy’s role providing information technology modernization to federal agencies. “It’s important to me that Clear Entropy keeps a relentless curiosity for answers to our customers’ problems, and that we’re always looking for new ways to innovate and change the game.” ExecutiveBiz: You and the Clear Entropy team have […] More

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    Accenture Helps Politico Create Global AI Forum

    Politico has selected Accenture to be the founding partner of a global artificial intelligence forum that aims to educate business and government leaders on the impact and use of AI technology. Accenture said Thursday the program will involve a series of AI summits and roundtable discussions across Europe and U.S., with the first summit scheduled for March 19 and […] More

  • in Government Cloud, News

    DoD Issues Draft Solicitation for Cloud Procurement Contract

    The Defense Department has issued a draft request for proposals for a single-award contract to procure commercial enterprise-level cloud services in support of agencies within DoD and service branches. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud program is a potential 10-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that has a base term of two […] More