The U.S. National Science Foundation and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization have announced a total of $4.1 million in grants to support three research projects on ethical artificial intelligence solutions to pandemic response and resilience to droughts and diseases. NSF will contribute $1.8 million while CSIRO will provide $2.3 million to the effort, […]
The Social Security Administration, the Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Agency for Global Media have been selected to receive Technology Modernization Fund investments to modernize their cybersecurity capabilities and digital services. According to TMF Executive Director Raylene Yung, the investments will help protect critical systems and sensitive data. The TMF has provided funds […]
The U.S. government has activated a new interagency strike force designed to protect American technology from foreign adversaries. According to U.S. Deputy Attorney-General Lisa Monaco, the Disruptive Technology Strike Force will be led by the departments of Justice and Commerce and will include top experts who would share their knowledge and insights to tackle national […]
The Environmental Protection Agency has migrated to the RelativityOne Government software-as-a-service platform to speed up the processing of Freedom of Information Act requests and support litigation and investigations. Legal technology company Relativity and litigation support and e-discovery services Deloitte worked together in facilitating the migration process. RelativityOne Government is a Federal Risk and Authorization Management […]
The CIA will explore the feasibility of using generative artificial intelligence to support the agency’s daily operations. Lakshmi Raman, director of AI at the CIA, said during the Potomac Officers Club’s fourth annual AI summit on Thursday that the agency wants to explore “in a disciplined way” how chatbots like ChatGPT can be put to […]
The Department of State has issued guidance on the responsible use of artificial intelligence for military purposes, outlining a set of best practices that the U.S. and other nations would agree to abide by in future development and implementation efforts. Titled “Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy,” the guidance was […]
A Nuix and Serco research team has won a U.S. Navy contest aimed at applying artificial intelligence to automate the assessment of controlled unclassified information. The two-company team was one of three competing groups to win a prize. The work involved training Nuix’s natural language processing system with a data set so it automatically detects […]
Skyhigh Security has announced that its Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway for cloud was granted a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program moderate authorization. Skyhigh SWG allows authorized users to connect to the cloud and the internet securely from anywhere and on any device. It also monitors online traffic and acts as a gateway between users, […]
Sen. Jon Tester, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, has expressed support for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ rollout of a new electronic health record system despite Republicans pushing legislation seeking to terminate the EHR deployment over technical and performance issues. Lawmakers have criticized the Oracle Cerner system since its deployment began […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract to C3 AI for mission-critical artificial intelligence applications in support of the Crowd-Sourced Flight Data Program, a 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron initiative aimed at providing warfighters with software-defined capabilities. The 59TES is based in Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada and is in charge of managing […]
