An artificial intelligence-powered chatbot will soon be rolled out at the Department of State to improve its operations. At the Palo Alto Network’s Public Sector Ignite event on Tuesday, Kelly Fletcher, chief information officer at the State Department, said that the agency is turning to generative AI to address its workforce’s call to streamline processes, […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has unveiled a new road map, laying down its plans to modernize the initiative. The road map is focused on four primary goals: ensuring the program’s cybersecurity leadership, improving customer experience, developing a trusted marketplace and building smarter, technology-forward operations. To ensure the program meets the goals, FedRAMP […]
Carahsoft Technology has announced that it is strengthening its partnership with Microsoft to expand access to Microsoft Azure and software-as-a-service solutions for government clients. The expansion will allow Carahsoft and its resellers to offer Azure solutions across multiple licensing programs, including Azure Commercial Cloud, Azure Government, Azure Secret and Azure Top Secret, Carahsoft said. Government […]
General Dynamics Information Technology has received a $922 million contract for the modernization of the U.S. Central Command’s enterprise IT network. The contract, which the General Services Administration awarded in February, commits GDIT’s artificial intelligence/machine learning technologies to improving CENTCOM’s decision-making and to transition the command to a new cloud environment. The task, which has […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Public Health Data Surveillance and Technology has recommended employing multidisciplinary teams when applying artificial intelligence to public health data to protect such information from malicious cyber actors. The CDC office is currently exploring ways to adopt AI capabilities, including large language models, across the agency through […]
UiPAth’s Automatic Cloud Public Sector solution has secured an “Authorized” status from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, allowing federal agencies to start using the tool for scaling any cloud automation program. Mike Daniels, senior vice president of public sector at UiPath, said the FedRAMP authorized status enables more public sector offices to use […]
F5’s application delivery networking solutions are now available on AWS Marketplace through Carahsoft’s CarahCloud Marketplace Program. The two organizations recently entered into an agreement that will see Carahsoft acting as F5’s public sector distributor and manager of its portfolio, including the F5 Distributed Cloud Services, the F5 Encrypted Threat Protection solution and the NGINX Plus […]
Reps. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., are spearheading the Defense Modernization Caucus, a group focused on accelerating the Department of Defense’s ability to adopt new technologies and innovations. Speaking at a National Security Innovation Base Summit hosted by the Ronald Reagan Institute on Wednesday, Wittman, co-chair of the group with Ryan, said that […]
The Department of Defense has achieved significant progress with its Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability modernization effort, according to Chief Information Officer John Sherman. Speaking before the House Armed Services Committee’s cyber, information technologies and innovation subcommittee on Friday, Sherman said the initiative is part of the department’s plan to ensure every worker has access to […]
Robert Newlen, interim director of the Congressional Research Service, said the agency is looking into the use of artificial intelligence to create legislative summaries. At a hearing of the Committee on House Administration’s modernization subcommittee, Newlen emphasized the potential of AI to reduce the agency’s workload and streamline operations. He also confirmed that the agency […]
