Health sector officials said artificial intelligence can support operations and personnel but is riddled with challenges that must be addressed. Sanja Basaric, AI program lead official at the Department of Health and Human Services, said during the Health IT Summit on Sept. 21 that AI can provide natural language processing and computer vision for image […]
Sens. Steve Daines and Jacky Rosen have introduced a counterpart to a House bill aimed at securing government use of multi-cloud networks. House lawmakers filed the Multi-Cloud Innovation and Advancement Act in August. Both versions of the bill would mandate new guidance on agencies’ cloud usage, a multi-cloud implementation plan and a study on federal […]
The U.S. Army and the Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office said teams from both organizations have made infrastructure improvements that would enhance data replication pipelines between the department and the military branch. According to Army finance data steward Chase Levinson, the service’s Business Mission Area and CDAO worked to integrate pipelines […]
VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services GovCloud (U.S.) has received an expanded Department of Defense Impact Level 5 provisional authorization to cover the U.S.-East and the U.S.-West regions, the i4i .metal instance type and the Hybrid Cloud Extension solution. IL5 clearance signifies that a cloud environment is secure enough to store and process controlled unclassified […]
A bill seeking to extend the implementation of the Technology Modernization Fund to 2030 has cleared a markup session of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The Modernizing Government Technology Reform Act of 2023 also proposes reforms to TMF program management and oversight, including requiring project funding suspension or termination when an agency head […]
Science and technology nonprofit Noblis has obtained the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s Moderate Authority to Operate designation for RunCyberAssurance, a cloud-based solution that provides automation and analytics capabilities, enabling organizations to maintain continuous authority to operate. Mark Lay, Noblis’ solution delivery organization lead, explained that the designation allows future solutions to be integrated […]
The Defense Logistics Agency’s senior executives and leaders handling the Department of Defense’s combat logistics discussed emerging technologies for the agency’s Digital Business Transformation program during the third D-BX Senior Executive Service Offsite conference. Held at the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center in Battle Creek, Michigan, on Sept. 13 and 14, the meeting tackled the new business […]
Auxon, an automated verification and validation solutions provider, announced that it has secured a $1.25 million Direct-to-Phase II contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop artificial intelligence fault prediction technology. The company offers products that help customers optimize system performance. Conform is a continuous verification solution that uses trace-based testing to isolate problems automatically […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency is seeking information on how the agency’s Program Executive Office-Spectrum could modernize its tools, processes and data. According to a request for information, PEO-Spectrum wants to modernize its electromagnetic spectrum IT capabilities to enhance existing tools, processes and data. The new EMS IT capabilities must enable enhanced decision-making through machine-based […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has prioritized KBR Vaault to obtain a provisional authority to operate from the Joint Authorization Board. According to the program’s website, FedRAMP selects roughly 12 cloud products annually to work with the board to secure a P-ATO. FedRAMP is a government initiative to review the security of cloud […]
