IonQ has agreed to merge with dMY Technology Group III (NYSE: DMYI.U), a special purpose acquisition company, in a transaction that would result in the quantum computing developer becoming a publicly traded company. The boards of directors of both companies unanimously approved the deal that gives the combined entity a valuation of approximately $2 ...
The White House has released a document providing guidance for federal agencies to align their actions as the administration develops a national security strategy. The Biden administrationâs Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, released Wednesday, describes the current global security landscape and outlines the countryâs national securi...
For the second consecutive year, Juliane Gallina, chief information officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has received a Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and sought after award in all of government contracting (GovCon), from Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and GovCon executives ...
The General Services Administration has released a draft request for proposals for the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract for use by federal agencies to buy information technology platforms and services from small businesses....
Michael Kratsios, U.S. chief technology officer and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, has been named acting undersecretary of research and engineering at the Department of Defense....
Arvind Krishna, senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been elected to serve as CEO and board member of the company, effective April 6. The board of directors also elected James âJimâ Whitehurst, an SVP at IBM and CEO of Red Hat, to serve as president of IBM....
Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new service, center and a program in an effort to further push the development of quantum computing technologies....
Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) has developed a suite of quantum computing services based on the Azure cloud platform. The company said Monday it partnered with Honeywell (NYSE: HON), 1QBit, QCI and IonQ to assemble software, hardware and other pre-built tools into Azure Quantum....
The Air Force Research Laboratory has collaborated with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to explore the potential applications of commercial quantum technology to U.S. Air Force operations. AFRL said Tuesday it will work with the company's researchers to examine optimization challenges, quantum chemistry simulation and machine learning algorithms on actual har...
A new Accenture (NYSE: ACN) report shows that 33 percent of aerospace and defense executives said they expect their organizations to witness the greatest impact from artificial intelligence in the next three years compared with distributed ledger, quantum computing and other emerging technologies....
