Ashley Weston, Adobe product senior specialist and technical lead at Carahsoft, said government agencies have started adopting digital signature technology, which reduces the time spent on transactions, speeds up document delivery and eliminates the need to meet in person to sign documents. The Internal Revenue Service has already begun using digital signatures to improve taxpayers’ […]
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into a potential consumer protection laws violation of OpenAI in connection with its ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool, a large language model trained to produce answers to queries and generate personalized content. In a demand letter, the regulatory agency ordered the company to contact FTC counsel to schedule […]
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded Fairfax, Virginia-based VMD Corp. a five-year, $29 million contract for governance and oversight support services. VMD Corp. will provide IT and operation technology cyber assessments, enterprise project management office expertise, governance, enterprise policy advisory and implementation support across the nuclear security enterprise. Deepti Malhotra, CEO […]
House and Senate lawmakers seek to impose new cyber incident reporting rules as part of a proposed amendment to the Federal Information Security Modernization Act. If passed, the new version of FISMA would require all federal agencies to alert Congress and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency when major attacks occur. The secretary of defense […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has teamed up with the University of Rochester and Google to explore the potential of artificial intelligence to identify irregular heart rhythms in firefighters. Electrocardiogram data from over 100 firefighters generated by the university and machine learning were used to train an AI model called Heart Health Monitoring […]
The Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have launched a $60 million competition aimed at funding small businesses developing climate resilience technologies for the ocean. Under the Ocean-Based Climate Resilience Accelerators program, the government intends to partner with the private sector to form organizations that provide financial support, training and mentorship […]
The Department of Energy has awarded $72 million in funding to support nearly 300 projects addressing multiple energy focus points. The funding will be used to support small businesses with projects focusing on renewable energy, nuclear energy, cybersecurity, manufacturing, artificial intelligence and other initiatives that support the Biden administration’s carbon-free electricity grid and net-zero emissions […]
The Department of Energy plans to grant a combined $2.2 million to 11 joint research efforts between Japan and the United States relating to high-energy physics. Such funds will be used to finance projects of mutual interest to the U.S. and Japan. Subject areas are expected to include the Higgs boson, neutrinos and particle acceleration. […]
New Los Alamos National Laboratory research found that a quantum neural network can be trained using a small amount of simple data, paving the way for less complex machine learning on quantum computers. Authors of the paper include researchers from LANL, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany. Existing quantum computers use long circuits that produce […]
The Environmental Protection Agency says having limited resources is the reason why thousands of cybersecurity weaknesses have gone unaddressed in the Analytical Radiation Data System, which is used to detect radiological anomalies by processing monitoring data from the air, rain, soil and other materials. According to the agency’s Office of the Inspector General, such vulnerabilities […]
