Low-profile Commerce Dept. service aims to partner federal agencies with 'big data' solution providers

The National Technical Information Service is highlighting cybersecurity in recruiting federal agencies to join a program where they are partnered with private-sector entities on a fast track to finding “big data” solutions to problems.

Officials at a meeting of the NTIS advisory board Monday said they hope to finalize the paperwork “within the next few weeks” for a Department of Homeland Security project which they noted was “about the size of” the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center,...