The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse is looking for companies that can deliver a scalable data sharing platform to support neuroscience research efforts such as Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development, an ongoing large-scale study tracking youths as they age over a 10-year period. The ABCD study requires a platform to facilitate in […]
Cybersecurity solutions provider Tenable has announced that the Tenable Cloud Security for U.S. Government-Ermetic was granted a “Ready” designation at the moderate impact level from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Tenable Cloud Security is a cloud-native application protection platform that maps cloud assets and platforms, assesses and identifies potential threats to business operations […]
Artificial intelligence will soon be part of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Natasha Krell, an NGA computer vision, machine learning, research and development scientist, said the agency is treating AI as a tool that would help people excel in their jobs. She compared it to a word processor with a user needing to input data into […]
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 […]
