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  • in Healthcare IT, News

    SAS, VirtualHealth to Offer Integrated Care Mgmt Platform

    SAS and VirtualHealth have partnered to combine an integrated care management platform with analytics in an effort to help government agencies manage delivery of healthcare services. The alliance plans to integrate SAS’ data management, visualization and analytics tools, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, into VirtualHealth’s care management platform, SAS said Monday. The combined offering is designed […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Seeks to Reduce F-35A Cost to $80M Per Aircraft by 2020

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company continues to work with industry partners to lower the F-35A aircraft’s price to $80 million per fighter jet by 2020. Hewson said in her speech delivered Monday at Lockheed’s media day event in Arlington, Virginia, that the company delivered 66 F-35s in 2017 and is on schedule to deliver at least 90 […] More

  • in Featured, General, Industry News, News

    Intel’s Melvin Greer: Ethical Standard Needed to Prevent AI Tech Abuse

    Melvin Greer, chief data scientist for Intel’s public sector, has said developers of artificial intelligence platforms should follow an ethical standard when it comes to programming behavior in order to prevent AI technologies from being weaponized, Bisnow reported Wednesday. “The brake has to be applied by humans,” Greer said Tuesday during a panel discussion at […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Steven Walker: DARPA to Leverage Funding Boost to Back Hypersonic Tech Development

    Steven Walker, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has said the budget increase would help DARPA advance the development of new technology platforms designed to build up deterrence and homeland defense capabilities amid competition with countries such as Russia and China, DoD News reported Thursday. Walker, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, said DARPA has […] More

  • in Executive Spotlight, General

    Executive Spotlight: An Interview with Teresa Carlson, VP of Worldwide Public Sector at Amazon Web Services

    ExecutiveBiz spoke with four-time Wash100 recipient Teresa Carlson about Amazon Web Services’ current offerings and output from the AWS re:Invent 2017 conference. On topics ranging from innovation in cloud computing to hyperscale in the public sector, here’s what she had to say: “We’ve seen our government customers use the cloud as a springboard to do […] More

  • in News, Products & Service

    Fortinet Unveils AI-Powered Threat Analysis & Detection Platform

    Fortinet has introduced an artificial intelligence platform designed to automate analysis and detection of cyber threats. The cybersecurity company said Tuesday the FortiGuard AI threat intelligence tool was produced through a five-year effort of Fortinet’s research group, FortiGuard Labs, to develop automated threat analysis and detection. FortiGuard AI uses machine learning and continuous training to constantly update itself and autonomously gather, […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Accenture Introduces AI Testing Services

    Accenture has unveiled new services designed to help clients test their artificial intelligence systems through a “teach and test” methodology. The process involves the “teach” phase, which evaluates the choice of data, models and algorithms used to train the AI platform to determine the best model as well as address ethical and compliance risks, Accenture said […] More

  • in Government Cloud, News

    Oracle to Launch 12 Data Centers in Cloud Footprint Expansion Push

    Oracle has announced plans to open 12 new data centers across Asia, Europe and the Americas region in a push to expand the geographic reach of the technology firm’s cloud services. The company said Monday it will establish two facilities in the U.S. to serve Defense Department customers and another two in Canada. Other data center locations will […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Report: Noblis Eyes Expansion in San Antonio, TX

    Noblis seeks to expand its operations in San Antonio, Texas from 21 employees to about 125 personnel in the next two to three years, My San Antonio reported Thursday. Mike Cameron, director of cyber solutions at Noblis, said the Virginia-based research and technology nonprofit aims to conduct more work related to artificial intelligence, data science and cybersecurity at […] More

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    LogRhythm Gets DHS Certification to Offer Cybersecurity Platforms

    LogRhythm has obtained approval from the Department of Homeland Security to offer two of its cybersecurity tools to government customers. The company said Tuesday its NextGen Security Information and Event Management and User and Entity Behavior Analytics platforms are now available to the Defense Department and civilian agencies through DHS’ Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. Daniel Wilbricht, senior […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Deloitte-UiPath Team Deploys Process Automation Systems for US Govt Agencies

    A partnership of Deloitte and UiPath has received multiple projects from U.S. government agencies to help automate processes through robotic systems. Deloitte said Wednesday the team delivers robotic process automation platforms that work to automate agencies’ tasks including new hire onboarding, employee transfer processing, purchase requests, invoice processing and asset management. RPA systems are also designed […] More

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    Lockheed to Update Nordic Postal Operator’s Sorting Platform

    Lockheed Martin has received a contract extension from PostNord to update an automated technology platform the Sweden-based postal company uses to sort mails. Lockheed said Wednesday it will integrate the Next Generation Sortation Platform into  PostNord’s current system and supply an artificial intelligence-based technology designed to manage e-commerce packets. Minerva uses AI routines and works to help postal operators […] More