The U.S. Army has postponed the launch of the Army Training Information System indefinitely after a deployment readiness review. Spokesperson Ellyn Kocher said delaying the rollout of the service branch’s new online training platform would give it more time to migrate legacy training records from the existing Army Learning Management System, Military .com reported. The […]
Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals could test facial recognition technology throughout 2024 as a potential alternative to using personal identity verification cards to sign into the network. VA Chief Information Officer Lynette Sherrill said in November that the pilot program is meant to provide a frictionless authentication process for clinicians, including those in intensive care […]
The Indian Health Service’s new electronic health care record system will be launched in 2025 to replace its current Resource and Patient Management System, which is more than 40 years old. According to GovCIO, the RPMS is the Department of Health and Human Services’ oldest legacy system. The planned 2025 launch was announced during the […]
The Department of Labor has announced a new program to improve unemployment insurance systems. According to the Labor Department, the OpenUI Initiative aims to allow states to use modular unemployment insurance technologies developed by other organizations or make their solutions available to other states. The goal is to change states’ approach to UI systems procurement, […]
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Logistics Management Institute a contract to help the government agency improve its research, development and analytics capabilities. Under the contract, LMI will provide its Financial and Inventory Simulation Model, deliver artificial intelligence and machine learning models and refresh data to allow the DLA to identify changes in business metrics. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking for public comments to inform White House-mandated guidance on trustworthy artificial intelligence. A new request for information contains questions on AI red-teaming, managing generative AI and synthetic content risks and developing worldwide technical standards for AI development, NIST said. President Joe Biden recently issued an executive […]
The U.S. Army is deploying a new contract management system to improve its procuring activity. The Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems and the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement have started rolling out the Army Contract Writing System to an additional 400 users inside and outside the continental United […]
The Government Accountability Office has suggested using artificial intelligence to enhance weather forecasting and mitigate billions of dollars in damage annually. In a paper published on Dec. 14, the watchdog explained that machine learning-powered algorithms could automate processes and rapidly extract insights from large datasets to give authorities more time to prepare for extreme weather […]
The National Science Foundation has issued a notice informing the research community of new generative artificial intelligence guidelines for reviewers and proposers to protect the integrity of proposals and their evaluation in the NSF merit review process. The new review procedure disallows NSF reviewers from uploading any proposal content, review records and related information to […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Palantir Technologies a potential $115.04 million contract extension to continue operating the Army Vantage platform. Palantir will continue providing its open data and analytics platform, delivering artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities and infrastructure to the Army’s product. Army Vantage integrates data sources from the Army and the Department of Defense, providing a […]
