Sotera Defense Solutions has won a potential $9.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Air Force for predictive analysis software prototyping and reporting services. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will work to develop systems that can offer multi-source data fusion, predict malicious cyber operator activities and act as an integrator of the experimental software prototype. […] More
Andy Start, president of Inmarsat‘s global government business unit, said the “five A’s” approach postulated by Gartner analysts Mark McDonald and Andy Rowsell-Jones can help the government balance operating capability and cost. Start wrote in a blog post published Thursday the “Augment, Apply, Accompany, Apply and Abstract” approach in the digital world can be modified into the […] More
Avi Pfeffer, formerly a principal scientist at Charles River Analytics, has been named chief scientist of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based defense and intelligent systems developer. He brings 20 years of probabilistic modeling and programming technology research and development experience to his new role, Charles River Analytics said Thursday. Karen Harper, president of Charles River Analytics, said Pfeffer will lead […] More
A U.S.-based subsidiary of SAP and Altamira Technologies have forged an alliance to combine their big data analytics platforms into a joint offering as the companies seek help clients discover relationships in their data. Altamira said Friday it will incorporate SAP’s in-memory database and computation engine HANA with the former company’s LUMIFY big data fusion, analytic and visualization platform. LUMIFY is designed to help […] More
The U.S. Army plans to hold a competition for the Distributed Common Ground System-Army Increment 2 as part of its efforts to update the system. The DCGS-A system is designed to allow uniformed personnel to collect, process and share intelligence through data derived from radio intercepts, infrared images, videos, maritime signals and other sources, Lockheed […] More
Mercedes Westcott leads the public sector business at software development company Cloudera in her vice president role there. Her GovCon career includes stops at Delphix as that company’s public sector VP and VP of security software at HP Enterprise Services, which she joined upon that company’s buy of ArcSight. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Westcott discusses the adoption […] More