The National Security Agency has issued a report highlighting ten recommended strategies to improve cloud security practices. The report emphasizes the importance of the cloud shared responsibility model, educating the need for the customer and the cloud provider to have a shared responsibility in securing cloud environments. The NSA said it could be achieved by […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has authorized an Amazon Web Services end-to-end messaging and collaboration encryption solution to operate in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region at the high-impact level. With the authorization, customers can use the AWS Wickr encryption service to secure data subject to FedRAMP’s high requirements. Wickr is designed to protect […]
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., have introduced the Federal AI Governance and Transparency Act, enabling the government to improve the transparency of artificial intelligence use in federal agencies. The bipartisan bill aims to achieve its goals by creating additional public accountability mechanisms, defining federal […]
Former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis is calling for a holistic approach to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Speaking at a National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee meeting on Tuesday, he explained that regulators need to look after the “technology, people and doctrine” elements behind AI and other systems of interest, Nextgov/FCW reported. Inglis, a past […]
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Lab has tapped technology, science and engineering solutions provider ECS as a system integrator for extending artificial intelligence capabilities to Department of Defense services and warfighter commands. ECS will perform the task under a three-year, $190 million contract it secured in the third quarter of 2023. […]
The Office of Personnel Management has awarded Excella a spot on its five-year, $100 million Data Science and Analytics Support Services blanket purchase agreement and has given the company two task orders under the BPA. For the first task order, Excella will help the OPM develop customer-facing data products that give users direct access to […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Cemetery Administration will improve its Veterans Legacy Memorial online platform to speed up responses to veterans’ pre-need eligibility determination requests for burial in a VA national cemetery. While the NCA has already reduced the time needed for answering such requests to a few days, Matthew Quinn, VA undersecretary for […]
The National Energy Technology Laboratory is migrating a virtual research data platform to a multicloud environment to better support larger datasets, faster throughput, secure collaboration and other tools and resources. The Energy Data eXchange platform provides access to research funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, NETL said Thursday. […]
A Securities and Exchange Commission official said the agency is not yet adopting third-party generative artificial intelligence tools because of the risks. Speaking at a recent Advanced Technology Academic Research Center panel discussion, Jennifer Diamantis, special counsel to the chief AI officer in the SEC’s Office of Information Technology Strategy and Innovation, said that the […]
ICF has secured two contract option-year extensions from the Department of Health and Human Services worth a total of $50 million to modernize systems for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. For the first contract extension, ICF will transition the CMS Quality Improvement and Evaluation System into the cloud-based Internet Quality Improvement System. The cloud […]
