NCI announced on Thursday that the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a five-year, $49 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity to provide intelligent automation and artificial intelligence (IAAI) solutions and services for HHS’ Program Support Center.
Read More »Charles Hicks Appointed Chief Financial Officer of NCI; Paul Dillahay Quoted
NCI Information Systems announced on Tuesday that Charles Hicks has joined NCI as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer.
Read More »Brad Mascho, Chief AI Officer of NCI Information Systems, Announced as Moderator for Potomac Officers Club’s 2019 Artificial Intelligence Forum on June 13th
Brad Mascho, chief AI officer of NCI Information Systems, will be featured as a moderator during Potomac Officers Club’s 2019 Artificial Intelligence Forum on June 13th. You can register for the event here.
Read More »IC Vet Amy McAuliffe to Chair National Intelligence Council
Amy McAuliffe, a 20-year Intelligence Community veteran and a CIA officer, has been appointed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper as chair of the National Intelligence Council. McAuliffe will succeed the departing Gregory Treverton and provide intelligence to the U.S. president, military chiefs and policymakers to help facilitate decisions on national …
Read More »NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, NCI to Research Cancer Under Renewed Space-Based Data Science Partnership
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Cancer Institute have extended their partnership through 2021 in an effort to expand the use of big data techniques and machine learning algorithms, which were originally developed for space exploration, in cancer research. The space agency said Thursday JPL and NCI will work to …
Read More »VA, DoD & NCI Partner for Targeted Cancer Screening Initiative
The Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cancer Institute and the Defense Department have formed a consortium with the goal to tailor care for people with cancer using data on genes and proteins associated with the patients’ tumors. VA said Tuesday the Applied Proteogenomics Organizational Learning and Outcomes consortium aims to develop a system for …
Read More »National Cancer Institute Unveils Genomic, Clinical Data Platform
The National Institutes of Health‘s National Cancer Institute has launched the Genomic Data Commons, a unified system designed to store and facilitate sharing of cancer genomic and clinical data. GDC works to centralize and standardize data from The Cancer Genome Atlas and Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments programs, which house …
Read More »Former NIH Director May Be New Director of NCI
President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Harold Varmus as director of the National Cancer Institute yesterday. Varmus is a former director of the National Institute of Health, bringing a wealth of expertise to the position. Varmus is a co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine …
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