A $200 million Artificial Intelligence and Development Fund has been integrated into the 2022 defense budget to hasten the Pentagon’s adoption of cutting-edge technology for the use of combatant commands. However, lawmakers first want Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin to explain how he intends to use the money before it is released, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. […]
The U.S. Navy has started laying down the foundations for digital infrastructure that will allow for the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in contested environments. According to a report from the Congressional Research Service, AI will play a crucial role in the service’s unmanned surface vehicles. AI and ML would also be […]
Artificial intelligence developers should look at more factors when rooting out potential bias in their algorithms, according to a report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Reva Schwartz, the principal investigator for AI bias at NIST and one of the report’s authors, said developers should not only focus on bias in machine learning […]
The Government Publishing Office, an agency that makes government documents available to the public, is looking into modernizing the documentation software used on Capitol Hill. GPO supports all three branches of government and is responsible for producing documents such as U.S. passports for the Department of State as well as official publications of Congress, the […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Government a FedRAMP+ authorization. The designation allows Oracle to offer the OCI for Government platform to the Intelligence Community. The OCI for Government platform provides federal agencies with various infrastructure and applications, such as the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and the Oracle […]
The U.S. Space Force targets to transition to the new Space Command-and-Control system by the end of 2022, finally retiring a legacy space catalog system. The Space Defense Operations Center, which became operational in 1979, is four decades older than the military service currently operating it, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. The USSF is already in the […]
Software company Coupa has secured the “Moderate” authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for the Coupa Business Spend Management for Federal platform. As part of the milestone, the company’s products are now available in the FedRAMP marketplace. The authorization allows the company to expand its services to federal agencies. The company offers […]
Seattle-headquartered Taqtile announced that it had been awarded by the Army Applications Laboratory a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to further deploy the Manifest platform to address repair and maintenance across multiple vehicle platforms. In a statement, the company said that it was chosen to go ahead with a more advanced phase in […]
Equifax, a credit reporting agency, said that its eligibility data delivery channel has received the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program “Ready for Agency Authorization” status. FedRAMP is a government-wide program that evaluates the security of cloud-based products and services marketed to federal agencies. With the authorization, the Equifax Government Data Exchange System may now […]
One Network Enterprises said that the U.S. Air Force’s digital logistics tool, powered by the company’s software, has achieved a maturity milestone. USAF’s Foundational Logistics Information Technology Enterprise System received the “Run” Agile maturity assessment under the Air Force Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate’s Enterprise Logistics Readiness Portfolio, ONE said. The company said that the […]
