Employees at several offices in the House of Representatives have been authorized to try out the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT for day-to-day tasks. The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer’s House Digital Services distributed 40 ChatGPT Plus subscriptions to these congressional offices on a first-come-first-served basis earlier this month for experimental purposes. The recipients have […]
There is no credible evidence indicating extraterrestrial activity within United States territory, according to All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Director Sean Kirkpatrick in a testimony delivered on April 19 at the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. AARO was formed in 2022 in response to public clamor for an explanation for multiple […]
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has called for the creation of a DHS Artificial Intelligence Task Force to be led by Undersecretary for Science and Technology Dimitri Kusnezov and Chief Information Officer Eric Hysen as co-chairpersons. Kusnezov and Hysen have been tasked to establish the working procedures of the internal task force. The […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will make available the Logging Made Easy tool to public and private sector stakeholders this summer. The National Cyber Security Centre of the United Kingdom originally developed and managed the LME until March 2023. CISA announced on Thursday it will build on NCSC’s work and expand the LME’s centralized logging capabilities. […]
United States lawmakers introduced on Thursday the Taiwan Cybersecurity Resiliency Act in a bid to restrain China’s growing aggression in cyberspace. The proposed legislation authorizes the secretary of the Department of Defense to expand U.S. cyber cooperation with Taiwan and use the country’s cybersecurity technologies and resources to defend Taiwan in the event it is […]
U.S. President Joe Biden nominated on Thursday Cara Abercrombie as assistant secretary of defense for acquisition. The role, currently being held by Tanya Skeen in an acting capacity, is responsible for various acquisition programs, including space, intelligence, tactical warfare and business systems. Abercrombie will have to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee for a […]
Argonne National Laboratory held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Argonne Quantum Foundry research facility on Wednesday. The creation of the foundry, which is part of Argonne’s quantum information science effort, was led by Q-NEXT, one of the five National Quantum Information Science Research Centers of the Department of Energy. The foundry will make quantum materials […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate are collaborating to determine the risks and benefits associated with emerging technologies like advanced sensors, artificial intelligence and simulation, which the agencies aim to deploy, Nextgov reported. CISA Associate Chief of Strategic Technology Garfield Jones said during a government […]
The U.S. Central Command has appointed Lovelace AI founder Andrew Moore as its first-ever adviser for artificial intelligence, robotics and cloud computing. Moore was previously vice president of Google Cloud’s AI division. In his new role, Moore will provide assistance in various aspects of AI, including its adoption, data collection and structuring, and computer algorithms, […]
