Veritone, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERI), the creator of the world’s first operating system for artificial intelligence, aiWARE™, today announced the details of its first quarter 2021 results conference call.

Veritone will hold a conference call on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (1:30 p.m. Pacific Time) to discuss its results for the first quarter 2021, provide an update on the business, and conduct a question and answer session. To listen, please join the webcast or dial-in. To avoid a wait, if dialing in, please pre-register or call in 20 minutes in advance.

About Veritone

Veritone (NASDAQ: VERI) is a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and solutions. The Company’s proprietary operating system, aiWARE™, powers a diverse set of AI applications and intelligent process automation solutions that are transforming both commercial and government organizations. aiWARE orchestrates an expanding ecosystem of machine learning models to transform audio, video, and other data sources into actionable intelligence. The Company’s AI developer tools enable its customers and partners to easily develop and deploy custom applications that leverage the power of AI to dramatically improve operational efficiency and unlock untapped opportunities. Veritone is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, and has offices in Costa Mesa, London, New York, and San Diego. 

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released a joint advisory on the exploitation of vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s FortiOS operating system by advanced persistent threat actors. 

Hackers may use the default configuration, path traversal and improper authentication vulnerabilities in FortiOS and other techniques to secure access to government, technology and commercial services and carry out future attacks, according to the advisory published Friday.

CISA has called on administrators and users to review the joint cybersecurity advisory and carry out the recommended measures to mitigate cyber risks.

Mitigation measures include patching the identified cyber vulnerabilities, implementing network segmentation, requiring administrator credentials to install software, using multifactor authentication and regularly changing passwords to network systems and accounts.

To register for this virtual forum, visit the GovConWire Events page.

GovConWire Events will host its Defense Cybersecurity Forum to explore the progress that NSA and other federal agencies have made to protect U.S. national security and enhance its capabilities in threat intelligence, vulnerability assessments and cyber defense to stay ahead of the nation’s adversaries in cyberspace. 

Morgan Adamski, chief of NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, will serve as a keynote speaker. She will address the Cybersecurity Directorate’s mission, accomplishments in protecting U.S. assets, the role of commercial partnerships and the challenges still to come in cyber.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to issue solicitations in fiscal year 2021 for three technology platforms to advance digitalization as part of the Pilot IRS program. 

The IRS’ enterprise digitalization and case management office listed the three technology verticals: extraction of machine-readable data from low-resolution and poor-quality images; digital intake and high-speed scanning, including as-a-service approaches; and artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotic process automation platforms, according to a notice posted Friday.

The informational posting offered a discussion of potential use cases for each of the three tech verticals to demonstrate the challenges facing the IRS.

The agency outlined its goals for the Pilot IRS program and these are reducing reliance on paper, increasing access to machine-readable data and managing digital data to transition from low-value to high-value work and improving the taxpayer experience. 

The IRS expects the release of the solicitation and contract award to occur within 45 days.

To register for this virtual forum, visit the Potomac Officers Club Events page.

Lockheed Martin announced on Monday that it has entered into a block buy agreement with ABL Space Systems. The agreement will require ABL to provide Lockheed with routine rocket launches of RS1 launch vehicles that will accelerate payload technologies' delivery rate into orbit. Lockheed will buy up to 26 rockets through 2025 and then up to 32 through 2029. 

"This long-term agreement with ABL solidifies our strategic partnership for the future. Having this assured access to space will accelerate our ability to demonstrate the spacecraft and associated payload technologies we are developing to the meet the future mission needs for our customers,” commented  Rick Ambrose, EVP at Lockheed Martin Space and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient.

Lockheed and ABL will both benefit from the agreement. Lockheed will secure lower-cost launch vehicles by accelerating risk reduction with demonstration missions which will be the foundation for future missions. ABL will benefit from a long-term partnership with a steady launch manifest that will facilitate future growth. 

Harry O'Hanley, CEO and co-founder of ABL, said, "We designed RS1 with flexibility in mind. We can serve a wide array of missions from many different launch sites using RS1's large payload capacity and deployable round systems. We're excited to support Lockheed Martin's launches, providing a unique end-to-end capability to the most important U.S. space missions."

ABL’s RS1 launch vehicle and GS0's deployable launch systems are currently under development with funding from the U.S. Space Force. The RS1 will be capable of launching up to 2,976 lbs to low Earth orbit. The GS0 will be a containerized system that a small team can quickly set up to launch the RS1 from new sites worldwide. 

Lockheed is currently developing payload technologies to support many different missions. Including payloads designed for Earth observation, global communications, climate research and more. The agreement’s stipulated launches could be executed from multiple sites, including Vandenberg Space Force Base, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, and the United Kingdom.

"We believe that routine, dedicated access to space for small satellites is critical to achieving U.S. and allied civil and defense priorities. This major agreement will help ABL and Lockheed Martin accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation space systems over the decade to come,” concluded Dan Piemont, president and co-founder of ABL. 

NASA's Ames Research Center has entered the final phase of preparations needed for an upcoming six-month biology mission that aims to measure how space radiation can affect living organisms.

The BioSentinel mission would lift off with 12 other CubeSats on the Space Launch System (SLS) for the first Artemis flight, the space agency said Saturday. A biosensor payload would detect the radiation affecting yeast cells carried by the small satellite. Microfluidic cards will quantify how radiation impacts the cells.

Dan Rowan, an integration and test engineer at Ames, is working to prepare BioSentinel’s internal components including the biosensor, a radiation detection instrument, subsystems, batteries and a radio. BioSentinel's spacecraft systems have also undergone electromagnetic resistance testing.

Once ready, Ames will ship the spacecraft to the Florida-based Kennedy Space Center for launching.

The Departments of Energy (DOE) and Agriculture (USDA) are separately applying cybersecurity and software development approaches based on efforts previously done by the Department of Defense (DOD), Federal News Network reported Friday. 

Venice Goodwine, chief information security officer at USDA, said her department is standing up a security-focused software factory similar to the U.S. Air Force's Platform One, which consolidates software development talent from multiple teams within the service.

Goodwine said at an AFCEA Bethesda panel she plans to certify a process through which USDA's 29 agencies would align their software development work with. She noted that automation would help the agencies develop needed software in a faster, timelier manner.

DOE, similarly, is trialing a new rapid authority to operate designed to speed up delivery while still keeping risks in check. The department is basing this work on something previously done by the U.S. Navy. 

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a program that focuses on establishing testable metrics for assessing progress in quantum computing research. 

DARPA said Friday the Quantum Benchmarking program seeks to identify the returns on investment into quantum research, establish metrics with a multidimensional scope and deploy “wind tunnels” designed to support diagnostics for testable quantum computing metrics.

The agency also intends to produce estimates for traditional and quantum resources including complex algorithms and standard hardware. The agency plans to hold a webinar on the benchmarking effort over the coming weeks.

Joe Altepeter, a program manager at the Defense Sciences Office at DARPA, noted that the agency’s focus is geared toward developing “large, fault-tolerant quantum computers”.

“Building a useful quantum computer is really hard, and it's important to make sure we're using the right metrics to guide our progress towards that goal,” he said.

The General Services Administration (GSA) has announced it will continue a partnership that aims to develop the country’s workforce of architects and civil engineers (ACE).

GSA said Friday its partnership with the ACE Mentor Program of America will run for five more years to help high school students gain interest in the design-build industry.

The ACE program engages with students in after-school skilled trade activities to encourage careers in the architecture and construction industries. The agency will encourage its personnel to serve as board members and mentors for ACE.

“This partnership is a great opportunity for GSA to foster relationships with youth who are interested in architecture, design and construction, and expose them to potential careers in public service,” said Allison Azevedo, acting commissioner of GSA’s Public Buildings Service.