The U.S. Navy has launched an experimental artificial intelligence program designed to answer thousands of help desk requests within 45 seconds. Called Amelia, the AI program will serve as a testing platform for conversational AI. Amelia responds to support tickets using natural language processing, which enables the system to understand text. According to Nathan Hagan, […]
Redhorse will provide professional, scientific and technical services in support of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Fourth Estate. The company will perform work under a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Acquisition Directorate of the Washington Headquarters Services. The IDIQ was awarded under the Analytic and Technical Support Services vehicle. Contract work […]
The Office of Management and Budget is planning to expand the scope of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to provide agencies with more cloud-based services for accelerating their operations. In a draft guidance outlining the planned changes to FedRAMP, the OMB noted the need for agencies to work together in evaluating cloud offerings […]
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center within the Department of Health and Human Services has advised health organizations to patch their SolarWinds systems to address vulnerabilities in the Access Rights Manager software. SolarWinds has released security fixes for eight vulnerabilities, including three system issues deemed critical because they could enable hackers to perform remote code […]
Arati Prabhakar, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, said the Office of Management and Budget is working on a new guidance on the use of artificial intelligence. The OMB will issue the guidance following an AI-focused executive order, which is expected to be introduced on Monday during the Safe, Secure and […]
A team of researchers at Argonne National Laboratory has extended the coherence time for a single-electro qubit to 0.1 millisecond, an increase from the previous record of 0.1 microsecond. The work involved encoding quantum information in the electron’s motional or charge states. The laboratory noted that while the extension is a short period of time, […]
The International Telecommunication Union has approved the Space Development Agency’s data transmission demonstration using Link 16 signals from the Tranche 0 Transport Layer satellites provided by York Space Systems. Link 16 is an encrypted network used by military ground vehicles, ships and aircraft to exchange data. In an email, SDA Director Derek Tournear told Breaking […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is soliciting proposals to perform a study on potential cognitive attacks on mixed reality devices and develop prototypes of MR systems using mathematical approaches, known as formal methods, designed to secure the equipment from such attacks. Work, split into two phases, will be performed under DARPA’s Intrinsic Cognitive Security […]
The White House has confirmed that Australia will participate in the Yama Sakura and Keen Edge exercises in Japan for the first time as part of efforts to expand trilateral cooperation, with a focus on unmanned aerial systems. The announcement was made ahead of the arrival of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the United […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is soliciting comments on its white paper exploring the creation of a software identifier ecosystem that would enable all organizations to enhance user support, inventory administration and vulnerability management. According to the white paper titled “Software Identification Ecosystem Option Analysis,” an effective software identification ecosystem requires software identifiers that […]
