U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan said on Wednesday at a Brookings Institution event that the agency has completed its information technology acquisitions and noted it is time to put those capabilities to work by using artificial intelligence and machine learning to make its operations more efficient. The setting up of the Office of […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted moderate-level clearance to five Software AG Government Solutions offerings. According to a press release, the entirety of the company’s product suite is now “fully validated by government.” The Software AG solutions assessed by FedRAMP are intended to support the integration of application programming interfaces, process mining, […]
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has set in motion the Biden administration’s efforts to pursue the beneficial use of artificial intelligence while addressing and minimizing its risks through the launch of a working group on generative AI that will conduct multi-sectoral consultations prior to making recommendations to the president on how […]
U.S. Army officials said a project introduced in December would help the service get a better sense of the work needed to successfully implement artificial intelligence solutions. Bharat Patel from the Army Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors, said Project Linchpin would take standard AI and machine learning operations from the private […]
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman, a 2023 Wash100 awardee, wants to fast-track the provision of top-secret cloud capabilities to warfighters as the tools are critical for ground forces operating on the battlefield. Sherman said on Thursday at DefenseScoop’s DefenseTalks that the Pentagon never had the enterprise cloud capability arising from the $9 […]
The U.S. Air Force has given $1.8 million to a team composed of Air National Guard airmen and a U.S. Army civilian from the U.S. Special Operations Command for a solution that collates phased aircraft maintenance data to provide workers, warfighters and officials with a common, real-time view of information. The software was pitched to […]
The Department of Homeland Security issued a request for information on May 5 for a cloud-enabled biometric identity and system requirement validation system. According to the RFI posted on SAM .gov, the DHS Office of Biometric Identity Management wants a tool that can perform multiple functions, such as serving as a centralized collaboration of in-house […]
Microsoft considers the accelerated and secure handover of three chips developed through the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes secure design capability a major milestone in the semiconductors and microelectronics industry. Microsoft helped develop the chips within its mission-critical Azure Government cloud infrastructure in compliance with the supply chain requirements of the Department of Defense. BAE Systems and […]
The Department of Defense intends to take an active defense stance when it comes to keeping its commercial cloud networks secure by checking internal security, scanning internet protocol addresses and red teaming to look for vulnerabilities on various systems. Recent cybersecurity incidents have kept the DOD on a high alert despite the rigorous security checks and […]
The U.S. Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office has designated a piece of artificial intelligence-powered software as its first Condition Based Maintenance Plus and predictive maintenance system of record. The Predictive Analysis and Decision Assistant is an AI software toolkit developed by the RSO and C3 AI that brings technologies and information infrastructure to facilitate CBM+ […]
