Flight safety and efficiency solutions provider Beacon AI announced that it has secured a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract from AFWERX to help the U.S. Air Force automate flight decks. Beacon AI will develop and improve its artificial intelligence-enabled copilot assistant system, which integrates autonomous solutions to flight decks. Specifically, Beacon […]
The Technology Modernization Fund is seeking projects advancing the Biden administration’s “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” executive order. According to the TMF’s call for project proposals, it will offer different funding paths to help agencies adopt AI for various purposes, including operations enhancement, program coordination, mission support and systems modernization. […]
Oracle has announced that the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program approved over a dozen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services and features. According to Oracle, the OCI offerings deliver enhanced artificial intelligence, DevOps and security capabilities to federal agencies and users. Some features of the OCI offering are a network firewall built using Palo Alto Networks’ […]
Reston, Virginia-based technology solutions company Leidos has announced a partnership with Sourcegraph to offer government agencies secure software development tools powered by generative artificial intelligence. Sourcegraph’s products include Cody, an AI assistant for code writing and maintenance, and Code Search, a tool to execute migrations and fixes in codebases, Leidos said. Roy Stevens, president of […]
Microsoft has announced that it is making its Azure OpenAI generative artificial intelligence service available to federal agencies through the Microsoft Azure Government platform. According to Candice Ling, senior vice president of Microsoft’s federal government business, Azure OpenAI allows agencies to use generative AI safely at the unclassified level. Ling added that the technology is […]
Tyler Technologies has extended its strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services to help government customers migrate their on-premise solutions to the cloud. The two companies first agreed in 2019 to provide Tyler customers better experiences when managing their applications in the cloud. The expanded collaboration is expected to continue supporting a wide range of […]
Cybersecurity asset management company Axonius’ government-facing subsidiary announced that its platform has attained the “In Process” status from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. FedRAMP grants “In Process” designations to partners committed to offering the federal government secure cloud services, Axonius said. The designation indicates that a vendor has met certain criteria on the […]
The Department of Transportation has launched the Complete Streets AI Initiative, aiming to develop a tool powered by artificial intelligence to improve transportation across the United States. Offered through the DOT’s Small Business Innovation Research program, the initiative will award 10 Phase 1 contracts to small businesses to build data and analytics capabilities that will […]
The Information Technology Industry Council has offered several recommendations to the National Institute of Standards and Technology on ways to safely develop and use artificial intelligence. In its response to the NIST’s request for information for the Executive Order on Safe, Secure and Trustworthy AI, ITI recommended that the institute work with international partners in […]
The U.S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command is experimenting with a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool developed by Defcon AI to modernize logistics missions by allowing planners to compare different courses of action based on potential disruptions. Col. Bradley Rueter, head of AMC’s Commander’s Initiative Group, said Artiv can reduce complex operational wargaming analysis time from […]
