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TechnoMile to Acquire Bid2Win Consulting; CEO Ashish Khot Quoted
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TechnoMile to Acquire Bid2Win Consulting; CEO Ashish Khot Quoted

TechnoMile, a leading provider of transformative cloud solutions, announced on Tuesday that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Bid2Win Consulting, a strategic advisory and professional services firm.

“Since TechnoMile’s inception, partnering collaboratively with clients to help them elevate business performance has been a cornerstone of our business. Adding strategic advisory capabilities enhances our company’s ability to deliver on this promise,” said Ashish Khot, CEO of TechnoMile.

Through the acquisition of Bid2Win Consulting, will complement TechnoMile’s best-in-class capture management technology and help companies doing business with the government accelerate growth. Bid2Win helps to expand a company’s position in the federal market and achieve sustained growth through highly focused corporate strategy, business development, recompete positioning and capture management.

“Joining forces with TechnoMile is a natural fit for us,” said Helene Johnson, president and CEO of Bid2Win, who will be transitioning to the role of TechnoMile’s chief value officer. “As part of the TechnoMile team, we’ll be equipped to advise clients on taking both their capture strategy and their capture technology to the next level to drive sustained growth.”

The acquisition of Bid2Win is part of these plans, enabling TechnoMile to offer clients strategic value consulting as a complement to its best-in-class Growth Suite for capture management. In addition, TechnoMile provides a best-in-class cloud platform that is purpose-built to help companies navigate the unique complexities and lifecycle of government sales.

“When we talk to clients about how we can better support their growth in the federal market, their needs are clear: they want help optimizing business processes in support of the BD and capture lifecycle, and advice on more effectively using their TechnoMile technology to do so,” Khot added.

About TechnoMile 

TechnoMile is a leading provider of transformative cloud solutions that empower companies to find, pursue, win and retain more business with the government from capture through contract. TechnoMile serves more than 150 clients, including 10 of the top 15 defense contractors and more than 50% of the top 200 government contractors.

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Octo-Metric5 JV Wins CIO-SP3 SB Task Order for U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services IT Modernization Support; CEO Mehul Sanghani Quoted
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Octo-Metric5 JV Wins CIO-SP3 SB Task Order for U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services IT Modernization Support; CEO Mehul Sanghani Quoted

A joint venture between Octo Consulting and Metric5 has secured a task order under the CIO-SP3 Small Business contract to support the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services with IT modernization and data sciences services.

Under the five-year Predictive Lake Analytics Nextgen eXchange Services task order, Octo Metric will leverage its artificial intelligence/machine learning, DevSecOps and configuration management capabilities to provide USCIS with data brokering, advanced analytics, data reporting and legacy operational maintenance services, among others, the JV said Tuesday.

Mehul Sanghani, CEO of Octo, said the partnership’s advanced technology capabilities will be critical to the USCIS mission as they support the citizenship process and drive their modernization initiatives.

Additionally, Chuck Schefer, general manager of national security and federal civilian markets at Octo said this task order continues Octo’s history of collaboration with the agency and will allow the company to transform USCIS’ analytical capability.

He added, “USCIS has a large data pool that can be harnessed for decision making, and we’re excited to help them enhance their ability to maximize that ability, as well as enable them to use their data for operational improvement and predictive and prescriptive analytics.”

As part of the task order, Octo Metric will also provide support across architecture design and implementation as well as user training.

In 2020, the Octo Metric JV notably won contracts with the U.S. Air Force and the Transportation Security Administration to provide a range of software engineering, cloud architecture and application development services in support of IT modernization initiatives.

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SambaNova Opens Applications for Enterprise AI Membership Program ELEVAITE; CEO Rodrigo Liang Quoted
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SambaNova Opens Applications for Enterprise AI Membership Program ELEVAITE; CEO Rodrigo Liang Quoted

SambaNova Systems has opened applications for its enterprise artificial intelligence membership program, ELEVAITE.

Under the program, the Palo Alto, California-based AI company said selected enterprises will receive guidance and support from SambaNova on starting and scaling their AI programs. 

“With SambaNova ELEVAITE, enterprises will receive unmatched education and technical guidance that directly supports successful AI initiatives from conception to deployment, scalability, and ROI with market visibility for their technology leadership,” said Rodrigo Liang, SambaNova’s co-founder and CEO.

ELEVAITE membership also includes access to SambaNova’s Systems Reconfigurable Dataflow Architecture components, including the company’s DataFlow-as-a-Service and DataScale turnkey platforms, which reduces enterprise risk and represents SambaNova’s commitment to scalable deployment.

As part of the membership, SambaNova’s teams will analyze enterprise needs to deliver customized AI deployment guidance to organizations and help implement AI technologies such as Natural Language, Recommendation, Processing and Vision

SambaNova’s Vice President of product, Marshall Choy said that the program is best suited for companies across industries such as financial services, energy, manufacturing, healthcare and more, that are looking to drive new initiatives, improve their market standing and accelerate the growth of their AI capabilities.

The selection process for the membership program has commenced, and the first cohort program will begin in January 2022.

To learn more information and apply for the ELEVAITE program, visit SambaNova.ai/ELEVAITE.

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Army’s C5ISR Center Aims to Develop Positioning, Navigation & Timing Sensor Fusion Software
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Army’s C5ISR Center Aims to Develop Positioning, Navigation & Timing Sensor Fusion Software

The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s C5ISR Center is using an open architecture to develop an application programming interface that would allow positioning, navigation and timing sensors to interoperate, Breaking News reported Monday.

The center’s scientists designed the pntOS software specification to help developers create PNT systems that have the capacity to connect with each other.

Michael Caporellie, PNT Emerging Technologies branch chief for the C5ISR Center, said the service wants to implement a modular approach to reconfigure sensors and insert new technology for data collection.

The Army expects the pntOS to reach maturity equivalent to technology readiness level seven by the end of 2021, according to the report.

The branch embarked on its software development effort comes as the Department of Defense is aiming to link disparate warfighting platforms as part of the Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept.

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IronNet’s Keith Alexander on Role of Behavioral Analytics in Collective Defense Against Cyberthreats
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IronNet’s Keith Alexander on Role of Behavioral Analytics in Collective Defense Against Cyberthreats

Keith Alexander, a retired U.S. Army general and founder, chairman and co-CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity, said the concept of collective defense against cyberthreats involves the use of behavioral analytics to detect beaconing, lateral movement, command and control and other types of behaviors and adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning to speed up threat detection.

“So those behavioral analytics look at behaviors as a machine learning and AI to rate every one of those behaviors,” Alexander, a previous Wash100 Award winner, told Washington Post Live in an interview published Monday. 

“And then as you noted, we anonymize that information so it can be shared, both among companies and with the government. That’s a huge step in cybersecurity,” he added. Alexander addressed privacy concerns when it comes to data sharing.

“So when you think about it, we’re talking about beaconing traffic, we’re talking about things the adversary’s doing, and sharing threat-related data,” he noted. “We don’t want to look at the communications, but we want to help them see the behaviors of things that are going on, and share those that in a metadata form.”

The retired general also discussed the role of cloud in collective defense and shared his insights on ransomware and 5G technology.

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Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno: US Military Needs Space Domain Awareness
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Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno: US Military Needs Space Domain Awareness

Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno, director of staff at the U.S. Space Force, emphasized the importance for military services to have the capacity to gain a deep understanding of the space domain, SpaceNews reported Monday.

“For us in the military, this is important toward not only understanding the domain but also being able to capture space superiority when and where we need it in the future,” Armagno said at an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics conference.

She noted that service branches have used a catalog with location data on approximately 27,000 objects floating in orbits such as satellites and space debris since the 1960s. Armagno believes the military’s primary space tracking data source is now insufficient for space monitoring activity.

Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno: US Military Needs Space Domain Awareness

GovCon Wire, sister site of ExecutiveGov, will host the Space Acquisition Forum on Jan. 19th. Join the event to hear from industry and government representatives about how the business sector can help the Department of Defense in efforts to secure the nation’s future in outer space and beyond.

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Treasury Sanctions 2 Ransomware Actors, Virtual Currency Exchange; Wally Adeyemo Quoted
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Treasury Sanctions 2 Ransomware Actors, Virtual Currency Exchange; Wally Adeyemo Quoted

The Department of the Treasury has sanctioned virtual currency exchange Chatex and its associated network of three companies for facilitating transactions for threat actors involved in ransomware attacks.

The Treasury said Monday the office of foreign assets control also imposed sanctions on a Russian and a Ukrainian for their role in carrying out ransomware attacks against U.S. companies and government agencies.

With the designation, the U.S. would block all designated targets’ property and interests and prohibit all U.S. individuals from engaging in transactions with the two ransomware actors, virtual currency exchange and its network.

“Ransomware groups and criminal organizations have targeted American businesses and public institutions of all sizes and across sectors, seeking to undermine the backbone of our economy,” said Wally Adeyemo, deputy secretary of the Treasury.

The department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network also issued an update to its 2020 ransomware advisory. The updated document includes information on ransomware-related trends and typologies, examples of ransomware incidents and financial red flag indicators of illicit activity related to ransomware to help financial institutions identify and report suspicious transactions in compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act. 

“We will continue to bring to bear all of the authorities at Treasury’s disposal to disrupt, deter, and prevent future threats to the economy of the United States. This is a top priority for the Biden Administration,” added Adeyemo.

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Heidi Shyu on DOD’s Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve
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Heidi Shyu on DOD’s Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve

Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a previous Wash100 Award winner, said DOD’s innovation steering group oversees an initiative called the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve that seeks feedback from service branches and combatant commands to help address capability gaps in joint warfighting, DOD News reported Monday.

RDER also helps facilitate prototyping and experimentation to support joint fires, information advantage, contested logistics and other joint warfighting concepts.

Shyu said her office received 203 ideas within five weeks through RDER and picked the top 32 ideas for funding that could address joint capability gaps.

Innovation areas that the Pentagon is focusing on include the development of trusted artificial intelligence and trusted autonomy; establishment of an integrated network system of systems; development of quantum computers and sensors; use of biotech to improve situational awareness; and production of high energy lasers that can counter unmanned systems and missiles. 

“We are finally at the cusp of delivering prototypes to the warfighter,” Shyu said of high-energy lasers.

Shyu noted that DOD has a three-pillar strategy to address the challenges facing the U.S. military: harness U.S. technology innovation to address operational challenges, establish the foundation to build a future workforce and depend on industry, academia, partners and allies.

Heidi Shyu on DOD's Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve

Heidi Shyu will act as a keynote speaker during Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Defense R&D Summit where elite government and industry leaders will come together to discuss the Department of Defense’s current innovation priorities, technology advancements and general strategy to stay ahead of the curve in the evolving defense sector.

Visit PotomacOfficersClub.com to learn more about the upcoming event. Don’t wait until the new year to register. 

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Carnegie Mellon-Operated FFRDC Offers Software Engineering Roadmap
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Carnegie Mellon-Operated FFRDC Offers Software Engineering Roadmap

A federally funded research and development center at Carnegie Mellon University has released a multiyear roadmap for architecting future software-based systems.

The CMU Software Engineering Institute sought input from an advisory group composed of government, industry and academic representatives to produce the document, titled “Architecting the Future of Software Engineering: A National Agenda for Software Engineering Research & Development.”

Department of Defense-sponsored SEI outlined how future software systems can be developed, analyzed and deployed and what relevant projects can contribute to addressing emerging challenges.

The document is intended to also help engineers ensure the safety, predictability and evolution of software platforms.

“Our hardware has become increasingly programmable, and software has become ubiquitous. Therefore, software engineering is a critical enabler for everything that we do in the DoD,” said Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and a previous Wash100 awardee, wrote in her foreword to the study.

Shyu added that the document will serve as a guide for the department’s research and investment strategy necessary to protect national security.

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NASA Gets Ready to Launch DART Planetary Defense Test in Late November; Lindley Johnson Quoted
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NASA Gets Ready to Launch DART Planetary Defense Test in Late November; Lindley Johnson Quoted

NASA is making final preparations to launch its first planetary defense test mission, which will attempt to kinetically impact the small moonlet asteroid named Dimorphos.

The space agency said Friday that its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will launch on Nov. 27 to autonomously target then strike Dimorphos, which orbits the larger Didymos asteroid.

The mission will attempt to slightly change Dimorphos’ orbit, and only serves as a test as neither asteroid poses a threat to planet Earth.

“DART will be the first demonstration of the ‘kinetic impactor’ technique in which a spacecraft deliberately collides with a known asteroid at high speed to change the asteroid’s motion in space,” said Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer at NASA.

Johnson said the test can help planetary defense experts refine computer models for asteroid kinetic impactors and provide insight into how humans can deflect objects that potentially threaten Earth.

NASA may move the launch by a day later if necessary and attempt subsequent launches through February 2022 if needed.

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