The Department of Agriculture is developing an artificial intelligence strategy focused on preparing the workforce to adopt AI capabilities, sharing use cases and ensuring the agency leadership understands AI risks. During a recent American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council webinar, Fredy Diaz, deputy chief data officer at the USDA, said that while the […]
Northrop Grumman has begun building a new modular energetics facility in the Naval Industrial Reserve Ordnance Plant at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia under a three-year, $178 million contract from Naval Sea Systems Command. The company operates the ABL, a government-owned facility that produces tactical rocket motors, warheads, munitions, composites, metals, propellants and […]
Three sounding rockets will lift off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on April 8, the day North America will experience a total solar eclipse. The Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path sounding rockets, which will be launched at different times, will provide data to determine the effects of the sudden dimming of the sun […]
SolarWinds has submitted a self-attestation form to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, confirming that the company’s software products were built using secure development practices. According to the company, it is the first software provider to comply with the CISA requirement to submit the Secure Software Development Attestation Form through the Repository for Software Attestations […]
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has awarded Dynamic Digital Transformation a $14.5 million contract to support the OCC’s enterprise mobility management services. Dynamic Digital Transformation is a joint venture between DMI and Dynamic Solutions Technology. Under the contract, DMI will be responsible for managing and supporting the OCC’s […]
The Department of Homeland Security is facing challenges in adopting artificial intelligence in a transparent and responsible manner, particularly in DHS areas where operations and public information sharing are more discreet. At the recent CrowdStrike Gov Threat Summit, Eric Hysen, chief information officer for the DHS, said ensuring the transparent and responsible use of AI […]
A Senate bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission to implement enforcement actions against companies operating online platforms that use consumers’ data for AI model training without consent. Under the Artificial Intelligence Consumer Opt-In, Notification Standards, and Ethical Norms for Training Act, introduced by Sens. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., a company’s […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency is developing a new version of its data strategy to guide the adoption of artificial intelligence for improving data analysis and decision making. In an interview with Federal News Network, Steve Wallace, the director of emerging technology and chief technology officer at DISA, said the new strategy for 2025-2027 covers […]
A Lockheed Martin hypersonic weapon prototype has undergone testing at the Reagan Test Site in the Marshall Islands. Lockheed is developing the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon to provide the U.S. Air Force with a hypersonic capability with speeds greater than Mach 5. The ARRW trial on Sunday, during which the weapon was launched from […]
Bering Straits Information Technologies has awarded KBR a 10-year subcontract to support the U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command in providing human performance optimization services to military bases in the United States and other countries. BSIT is among the six companies that secured a spot in a $988 million multiaward indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to deliver HPO […]
