“We want to look at it, understand it, exploit it and be able to serve our customers with it, no matter which model of AI they want to embrace," CEO Tom Bell tells Wall Street.
This will be Leidos' largest purchase since 2016 and doubles its energy business. As Leidos' homeland security unit president told us, artificial intelligence helping to drive a trillion-dollar grid modernization push as computing power needs grow.
Booz Allen Hamilton's chief financial officer is heading to a new industry altogether, while Leidos and Science Applications International Corp. detail their tech and growth chief hires.
This piece of the service branch's Cloud One Next initiative concentrates on access to cloud computing services via automated, on-demand and self-service means.
The Missile Defense Agency is making staggered awards for the SHIELD contract as it works through 2,463 proposals with more winners and likely protests to come.
Accenture's federal subsidiary clears an investigation over an alleged conflict-of-interest and will continue providing enterprise IT and business support services.
As Leidos CEO Tom Bell told a group of reporters, the company is "more interested in the system we can build around all of the widgets" to make technology work better for government.
In talking with Wall Street, Tom Bell says the customer dialogue tide is turning from "simply slash-and-burn" and more toward what the longer term should look like.
