Mike Hettinger, founder of Hettinger Strategy Group and former staff director of the House Oversight Government Operations Subcommittee, expressed disappointment at the Senate Committee on Appropriations’s approval of legislation that would rescind $290 million from the Technology Modernization Fund. The rescission was part of the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill, FedScoop reported. Hettinger […]
The developers of an artificial intelligence-enabled chatbot have been selected as finalists for the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center’s 2023 Innovation Rodeo. Varlin Sheffey, computer scientist for the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, and Tech. Sgt. Jeremiah Grenfell, a noncommissioned officer for the Combined Force Space Component Command at […]
The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office and the Joint Staff are leading tests on generative artificial intelligence as part of the sixth Global Information Dominance Experiments, a set of wargames aimed at fielding new capabilities for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative. Deputy CDAO Margaret Palmieri said different models of generative AI are […]
Palantir Technologies has expanded its partnership with Carahsoft Technology to deliver the Apollo platform to public sector customers. Under the extended agreement, Carahsoft will use its reseller partners and various federal, state and local government contracting vehicles to make the Apollo offering available to more users. The Apollo platform features automated deployment landscape scanning and […]
A Department of Veterans Affairs official has opposed Senate bills seeking to make the VA’s electronic health record system comply with new certification requirements prior to its deployment to new sites. The Oracle Cerner EHR system is already operational at five locations, including Spokane VA Health Care System, VA Walla Walla Health Care and Roseburg […]
The U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems is planning to implement a continuous integration/continuous delivery approach to software acquisition in compliance with policy reforms. The Army Materiel Command is currently responsible for maintaining software produced by PEO EIS program management offices. Under the new acquisition paradigm, PMOs will oversee the entire development process, […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected Flexion to modernize the agency’s claims processing system. CMS awarded the company a Modern Claim Adjudication Development Services contract, under which Flexion will enable the U.S. health coverage provider to accept and process dental claims through the updated system. In November 2022, the agency published the […]
The U.S. Air Force 774th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron has awarded HII Mission Technologies a five-year, $84 million contract for enterprise IT cloud migration support. Under the contract, HII Mission Technologies will support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s efforts to migrate applications to a multi-cloud environment where the Department of Defense and other federal agencies could access […]
The Air Force Materiel Command is planning to merge its three software engineering groups into a single entity within the Air Force Sustainment Center to streamline processes and facilitate software delivery while ensuring agility. The service’s software engineering groups are found in the Air Logistics Complexes at Hill Air Force Base, Utah; Robins AFB, Georgia; […]
Google and IBM have urged the government to adopt a pro-innovation approach to AI regulation in response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s public consultation. The OSTP launched the consultation in May to gather feedback from the industry on the potential impacts of AI on national security and identify measures that could be […]
