Republican Sen. Rob Portman announced that legislation he co-introduced with Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen to support the development of artificial intelligence in the country was signed into law as part of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. The bipartisan Advancing American AI Innovation Act creates a pilot program under the Department of Defense that establishes […]
EpiSys Science and Draper have emerged as the winners of the U.S. Navy’s Artificial Intelligence for Small Unit Maneuvers Prize Challenge, a 10-month contest aimed at equipping warfighters with AI-powered robotic autonomous systems. AISUM participants developed algorithms and integrated them into off-the-shelf drones developed by Hydronolix, with the goal of enabling autonomous flight and gathering […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory announced its intention to overhaul its air operations and planning procedures by mixing artificial intelligence-driven planning with interactive gaming to significantly cut the Air Tasking Order planning cycle. In a presolicitation notice released Monday, the Air Force called on the industry to help it use AI and gaming technologies to […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to outsource the development and maintenance of new and existing applications in a new center of excellence in January. ICE’s Scalable Initiate Flexible Tasks program is aimed at supporting the development of platform-as-a-service, hyperautomation, visualization and collaborative services applications, FedScoop reported Tuesday. The PaaS segment covers ServiceNow and Dynamics systems […]
Accenture Federal Services has secured a seven-year, $87 million contract to enhance the trademark product line of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The deal, which was awarded under the General Services Administration’s Alliant 2 Governmentwide Acquisition Contract vehicle, calls for the modernization of critical applications, development of a DevSecOps infrastructure and incorporation of cloud, […]
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has released a new “toolbox” intended to help developers of artificial intelligence improve the security of their algorithms. Called the “Guaranteeing AI Robustness Against Deception” program, the new tools have been made available to any researcher in hopes they will be used to keep adversary states from accessing databases and […]
The Army Contracting Command is looking for vendors qualified to provide information technology support services to the U.S. Southern Command J8 Directorate. The directorate is tasked with managing multilateral engagement activities with the unified combatant command’s partner nations. J8 specifically needs a contractor to maintain the Traditional Commander Activities program database—known as the Cloud-based TCA […]
The Department of Defense must ensure that its artificial intelligence systems are governable before the technology is applied to Joint All-Domain Command and Control, according to an AI expert at Northrop Grumman. Governability entails that operators can easily determine if an AI system is not performing as intended, Breaking Defense said. Amanda Muller, consulting AI […]
The Defense Logistics Agency has launched a program to invite citizen developers to undergo training for developing robotic process automation tools. The program has already moved past the beta phase and will be rolled out across the rest of the organization, DLA Chief Information Officer George Duchak told Nextgov at the sidelines of the Roadmap […]
California-headquartered software company ServiceNow announced that it has secured a five-year contract with the Internal Revenue Service to provide a proprietary low code development platform. The deal calls for the acceleration of the IRS’ long-term digital transformation efforts by consolidating 12 legacy systems into a single platform of record, ServiceNow said Tuesday. In a statement, […]
