Microsoft received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program high authorization on Thursday for its Azure OpenAI service. The FedRAMP authorization allows the government to integrate ChatGPT, DALL-E and other language models into their cloud applications for tasks like natural language-to-code translation, semantic search, content generation and other tasks. According to Microsoft, data used within […]
The U.S. Army has issued a presolicitation notice for a contractor to supply command, control and communications tactical post-deployment software support and post-production software support for the Fires Division within the Software Engineering Center at the Army Communications-Electronics Command. The Fires Division extends life-cycle software solutions and software engineering and sustainment support services. The division’s […]
Ardent, an Arlington, Virginia-based management consulting company, has received a contract from the FBI to deliver advanced geographic information system expertise to the agency’s Directorate of Intelligence. The next-generation contract, the company’s first with the bureau, includes Ardent extending its GIS analytics and software development capabilities to the directorate. Under the contract, the geospatial platform […]
Donald Johnson, the new Defense Health Agency assistant director for support and component acquisition, has expressed interest in partnering with industry players and academia in exploring artificial intelligence innovations to improve military health care. According to the official, AI-powered technologies, including wearables, enable converged databases and common data repositories that support predictive analytics in health […]
The Momentum financial management software has received approval from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Management Quality Service Management Office to be included in the FM QSMO Marketplace, a hub for various commercial and federal solutions and services. The software is a product of CGI Federal, a subsidiary of IT and business consulting services […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is seeking industry input on how distributed ledger technology can support the modernization of a portal for processing import and export trade data. The agency said in a sources sought notice posted on July 21 that it seeks to understand the maturity of “DLT variants and enabling capabilities” such as […]
DataShapes has partnered with Carahsoft Technology to offer artificial intelligence-powered software products to government agencies through Carahsoft’s reseller partners and contract vehicles. The products, including WaveShaper and GlobalEdge, are designed for real-time collection and analysis of signal, waveform and video intelligence in the cloud, on-premises and at the edge, DataShapes said. WaveShaper can be used […]
The Department of Labor will modify its unemployment systems modernization and anti-fraud strategy after Congress cut funding by $1 billion. According to a department advisory issued on July 13, future efforts will focus on improving unemployment system user interface integrity. Specifically, the agency will use $100 million of its remaining funds for fraud prevention and […]
Three House Democrats have urged the Office of Management and Budget to require federal agencies and vendors to adopt the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s AI Risk Management Framework. Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Ted Lieu and Haley Stevens made the call in a letter sent to the OMB. The framework, released in January, was created […]
Seven companies spearheading artificial intelligence development have voluntarily committed to implement various safety, cybersecurity and public trust measures. The White House said in a Friday press release that industry should have a responsibility to protect American citizens from the technology’s potential harms. Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI have committed to public safety […]
