The Defense Innovation Unit’s Predictive Health program is prototyping artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to facilitate early cancer diagnosis. DIU explained that the current process, where pathologists search for cancer signs on biopsy samples, is time-consuming and can lead to errors. It also noted that the number of personnel qualified to evaluate samples for […]
The Department of Energy Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response is investing $39 million in nine national laboratory initiatives to secure distributed energy resources. DERs are small power generation and storage technologies that can be connected to or be independent of the electric grid. They typically have a capacity of less than 10 […]
The Office of Management and Budget is drafting a new memo to provide guidance on about 10 requirements in government agencies’ use and management of artificial intelligence, parts of which were disclosed to Federal News Network. Details of the draft include the appointment of a new chief AI officer, the development of a publicly available […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Accenture Federal Services a potential five-year, $25 million prime contract to modernize operations at the Air Force Sustainment Center, including air logistics complexes in Georgia, Oklahoma and Utah. Bill Marion, managing director and Air Force client executive at Accenture Federal Services, explained that AFSC is responsible for providing aircraft […]
Software company Icertis has introduced the Icertis Contract Intelligence for Government Contractors, an artificial intelligence-powered contract lifecycle management solution designed for the U.S. federal government. ICI GovCon works to help contractors address challenges across the federal sector. The solution uses over 10 million contracts to enable enterprise-wide visibility for improved supply chain performance, compliance with […]
Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division is calling on industry, academia and government agencies to join the Silent Swarm event to demonstrate early-stage unmanned systems with the capability to launch electromagnetic attacks and deception and perform digital payload delivery in multidomain environments. NSWC Crane is interested in technologies in the Technology Readiness Level 2 to […]
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has selected Boeing to develop and test technologies for its Glide Breaker hypersonic missile interceptor program, the company announced on Monday. Defense Post reports that the majority of Boeing’s work will be carried out in Alabama, California and Missouri, with completion expected by February 2027. Under the contract, which […]
The Department of the Air Force has awarded Amazon Web Services a blanket purchase agreement to provide specialized cloud services for the Space Launch Delta 45 and SLD 30 Cloud Center of Excellence. According to a DAF notice, AWS will provide Impact Level 4 Controlled Unclassified, IL5 Unclassified National Security Systems and IL6 Secret Internet […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is working with the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity on a competition to help authorities identify and defend against threats facing artificial intelligence data and models. In the TrojAI Leaderboard competition, participants will have multiple rounds to detect Trojan attacks against AI language models and other AI systems. […]
Leidos has completed the migration of the Department of Defense’s Automated Biometrics Information System to an Amazon Web Services cloud environment under the Biometrics Enabling Capability, Increment 1 contract. Moving the ABIS to the cloud is the first step to securing fully automated biometrics capabilities and delivering increased system availability and performance to users worldwide, […]
