The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has received roughly 1,447 written comments as a response to a request for feedback for its artificial intelligence accountability policy. The NTIA issued a request for comment in April as part of the commitment of President Biden’s administration to managing the possible risks brought by AI while the government […]
The Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office is hosting the sixth iteration of the Global Information Dominance Experiment in partnership with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. GIDE involves activities designed to evaluate military applications of various technologies and machine learning and artificial intelligence models to advance the Joint All-Domain Command and Control […]
Christine Wormuth, secretary of the Army and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, has suggested using artificial intelligence to support recruitment efforts amid a continued deficit of new soldiers. Speaking at a Pentagon media roundtable on Tuesday, she said the technology could support the identification of quality prospects. Others have said that AI can pull items of […]
The House Armed Services Committee is urging the Department of Defense to study two additional corridors for long-distance hypersonic systems testing as demand for current testing infrastructure grows. According to the committee’s proposed 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, flying hypersonic missiles at a more regular pace is paramount, but achieving the goal is hindered by […]
Amelia, a conversational artificial intelligence-based digital assistant capable of providing troubleshooting and technical support, will be rolled out by the U.S. Navy beginning in August. The AI chatbot is part of the $136 million Navy Enterprise Service Desk venture awarded to General Dynamics Information Technology in 2021 to help modernize and consolidate over 90 information […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate Technology Centers Division has unveiled its Research Agenda, a multi-year strategic framework outlining research and investment priorities. Melanie Cummings, director of the S&T Technology Centers Division, said experts worked to identify key priority areas over the next five years. Key points under the Research Agenda include […]
The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation wants to speed up the development of artificial intelligence to improve warfighters’ ability to detect and analyze electromagnetic spectrum signals. Under a mark on the fiscal year 2024 defense budget, the subcommittee urged the Department of Defense to provide forces with electromagnetic spectrum capabilities […]
The U.S. Marine Corps’ budget request for fiscal year 2024 includes over $130 million to procure 13 Marine Air Defense Integrated Systems Increment 1 units, which will be mounted on joint light tactical vehicles. According to a budget justification document, the Marines also requested $32.5 million to purchase L-MADIS systems, the light version of MADIS […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Columbia, Maryland-based Bigbear .ai a six-month, $8.5 million follow-on to a prime contract for the Global Force Information Management system. Bigbear .ai will work with Deloitte, Appian and Ignite IT to continue building GFIM. The contract extension also requires Bigbear .ai to migrate the system’s prototype to the cARMY cloud. […]
Rep. Ted Lieu plans to file a bill later in June for a blue-ribbon commission to advise lawmakers on artificial intelligence policy. He told FedScoop during the Amazon Web Services Public Summit in Washington that the group would be tasked with providing a public report to Congress on the types of AI to address and […]
