The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is looking into the potential of natural language processing to speed up the analysis of imagery and maps by reducing the time spent on text reading and generation.
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Lester Lyles, a retired U.S. Air Force general, has been named chair of the newly formed Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner,
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The leaders of the U.S., Australia and the U.K. have issued a joint statement on their countries’ progress in advancing collaboration on defense and security capabilities under a trilateral security partnership called
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The Department of Defense has awarded 19 grants valued at approximately $90 million combined under the Defense Community Infrastructure Pilot Program and six grants worth about $30 million in total through the
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The General Services Administration (GSA) and the FBI launched the process for selecting a location for the bureau’s new suburban headquarters in the National Capital Region. The 2016 project planning process identified
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A mentor-protege joint venture between business management consulting firms NetImpact Strategies and Attain has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for technical assistance and program execution support. The
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Submissions are now being welcomed for a $7 billion initiative by the U.S. Department of Energy to encourage the establishment of regional hubs for the production of hydrogen. The endeavor, which comes
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The Senate confirmed Arati Prabhakar, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a previous Wash100 awardee, as director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy in
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A report released by the Brookings Institution shows that the federal government is still in the experimental phase when it comes to artificial intelligence procurement given the large number of small contracts
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The First Street Foundation and two NASA research laboratories have teamed up to perform risk modeling work to quantitatively evaluate the impacts of climate events on the economy and raise awareness about
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