Christy Goldsmith Romero, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has released the agenda for a Jan. 8 public meeting of the Technology Advisory Committee to discuss artificial intelligence, cybersecurity modernization and decentralized finance. Romero, the TAC’s sponsor, wrote that AI has transformative potential if its implementation avoids harm to customers and markets, CFTC said […]
The Internal Revenue Service has awarded Maximus a four-year, $32 million task order for data delivery support services. Maximus will provide development support to two mission-critical IRS systems. Specifically, the company will help the IRS identify and develop data delivery service models; enhance the technical components the agency has in place; work with the agency […]
Knightscope has received an authority to operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, a requirement to joining the FedRAMP marketplace. The ATO will eventually enable Knightscope to begin its deployment processes to perform on the contract awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs for its first K5 ASR fully autonomous outdoor security robot. […]
Carahsoft Technology has announced that it will offer Dremio’s data analytics and management solutions to the public sector under a new partnership. Dremio offers a data lakehouse service that features self-service analytics, data warehouse and Standard Query Language search functionality, Carahsoft said. Government organizations could use such capabilities to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency while […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a document describing how malicious actors manipulate artificial intelligence systems‘ behaviors. The document, titled “Adversarial Machine Learning: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks and Mitigations,” is designed to help AI developers and users understand the different types of cyberattacks they might experience and to provide suggestions […]
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is looking to support its acquisition personnel in 2024 and beyond. Christine Harada, senior adviser at OFPP, said the White House wants to ensure that agencies’ acquisition staff are sufficiently trained and supported, Federal News Network reported Monday. Harada told Federal News Network in an interview that supporting such […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency is conducting market research to identify the availability of a small business to provide products and services required by the Joint Interoperability of Tactical Command and Control Systems Software Development and Sustainment. The winning bidder is expected to work at Fort George G. Meade and the contractor’s facility within the […]
Former White House adviser Eric Mill has taken on a new position at the General Services Administration. On Tuesday, GSA announced Mill’s appointment as its executive director for cloud strategy in the Technology Transformation Services unit. He will be overseeing the agency’s cloud security strategy and assisting with the government’s technology initiatives. Mill recently served […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has selected Decision Lens to provide a continuous, automated solution as a replacement for its manual, forms-based surveys. The new system is designed for role-specific surveys and fosters enterprise decision management with more time available for data analysis and real-time delivery of outputs, Decision Lens disclosed. […]
The National Institutes of Health will work with the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation in 2024 to advance the NIH’s artificial intelligence efforts. According to Susan Gregurick, associate director for data science at the NIH, the three agencies will launch the National AI Research Resource steering committee, which will provide data sets […]
