The Department of Education has appointed Chief Technology Officer Vijay Sharma as its chief artificial intelligence officer. Sharma is also the Education Department’s responsible AI official, a role established by a Trump-era executive order in 2020 to implement foundational principles, FedScoop reported Monday. According to his LinkedIn profile, Sharma was formerly the department’s enterprise program […]
The Office of Personnel Management‘s internal watchdog has flagged cybersecurity measures taken for information technology systems underpinning the Postal Service Health Benefits system, a new health insurance marketplace for U.S. Postal Service workers. OPM’s Office of the Inspector General conducted a flash audit focused on Carrier Connect, a system used to share data with health […]
The General Services Administration is working with Congress to implement major changes to its acquisition processes. Amending the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 is among the legislative proposals sent by GSA to the legislative branch. At the Coalition for Government Procurement’s fall conference, GSA Senior Procurement Executive Jeff Koses said the revision will address […]
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate is developing a tool that would allow first responders to look for people in situations where visual confirmation is difficult. The DHS S&T, in partnership with MaXentric Technologies, is working on the Detect Presence of Life, a radar-based hardware designed to identify humans behind obstructions. According […]
Federal agencies could soon benefit from a strategic collaboration advancing artificial intelligence use in the government, providing decision-makers with needed data. Strategic intelligence solutions provider Strider Technologies and AI application developer Scale AI are collaborating to deliver data and AI solutions designed to identify, contextualize and respond to various economic and national security issues. The […]
Argonne National Laboratory said its new exascale computer is showing strong early performance numbers during its stabilization period. According to Argonne, the Aurora supercomputer achieved over 585 petaflops of computing power on 5,439 nodes, putting it among the top 500 strongest supercomputers in the world. Michael Papka, director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, said […]
REI Systems has secured a potential five-and-a-half-year, $85 million blanket purchase agreement from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Primary Health Care Office of Health Center Investment Oversight to provide reporting and data-related information technology support. Efforts are expected to include data collection, analysis and visualization, REI said Wednesday. The company said it […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is seeking information on the availability of commercial technologies for the Automated Commercial Environment 2.0 program. CBP is looking for technologies that would help fulfill several mission requirements, including sharing data between internal CBP systems and other federal agencies, obtaining supply-chain visibility from product manufacturers and identifying anomalous trade patterns, […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released new guidelines for the safe development and deployment of artificial intelligence capabilities. The Roadmap for AI outlines five lines of effort: responsible use of AI for cybersecurity missions, AI systems assessment and assurance, critical infrastructure protection against malicious AI usage, interagency and inter-organizational collaboration and communication and […]
DDN announced that it has teamed up with Sandia National Laboratories for four years to ensure that the Infinia data storage solution can accommodate future Department of Energy and Government Lab ecosystem and application requirements. Infinia is designed to support intensive workloads such as generative artificial intelligence and data at scale on-premises and in the […]
