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Pentagon | March 30, 2020

The Defense Department modified an existing government contract to purchase 8,000 ventilators from four vendors worth as much $84 million, with an initial shipment of 1,400 of the increasingly important ventilators due for delivery by early May. The announcement to purchase ventilators—already in need in COVID-19 hot spots like New York and Louisiana— for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to distribute was one of several major partnership efforts with the defense industrial bas...

Government Business

SAIC | May 23, 2022

Science Applications International Corp. announced that Gartner’s new Market Share report on IT services ranked the company as the #1 provider by revenue of IT services to the U.S. government in two categories; infrastructure implementation and managed services, and application managed services. This is the second consecutive year the company was ranked #1 for application managed services. Additionally Gartner’s report also ranked SAIC as the #2 provider of application...

CNAS | February 05, 2020

Congress and the White House should work together to increase annual federal spending on artificial intelligence (AI) research and development to US$25bn (€19.2bn), according to a national security think tank. This is one of a number of recommendations set out in a report – entitled The American AI Century: A Blueprint for Action – from the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), an influential Washington, DC think tank established in 2007 and funded largely by defence firms....

Emerging Technology, Government Business

PR Newswire | May 26, 2023

For Memorial Day 2023, GovCIO partnered with the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration (NCA) to add to its Veterans Legacy Memorial (VLM) website more than 300,000 service members and Veterans interred in 27 Department of Defense-managed military cemeteries, including Arlington National Cemetery. VLM, a publicly available interactive online memorialization platform, honors the service and sacrifice of millions interred at these military cemeteries; at V...