The Department of Veterans Affairs is ramping up its artificial intelligence usage to improve patient care and employee satisfaction. Kimberly McManus, VA’s deputy chief technology officer of AI, specified that the technology could improve radiology services for veterans, with new use cases emerging for dermatology and pathology, Federal News Network reported. The agency has managed […]
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology is launching a competition to create an Artificial Intelligence for Resilient Manufacturing Institute under the Manufacturing USA network. Formed in 2014 with an initial eight institutes, Manufacturing USA has grown to 17 institutes in its national network to date. Some $70 million in funding […]
The Biden administration has sought $75 million for the Technology Modernization Fund for the fiscal year 2025, less than half of what lawmakers asked for in fiscal 2024. According to the White House’s budget request, the $75 million will support IT modernization efforts and build on over $750 million that the TMF invested in federal […]
Cellebrite, an Israel-based digital intelligence firm operating in the United States through its Virginia office, has announced that it is pursuing Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program compliance certification for its software-as-a-service offerings. The company has tapped cybersecurity and cloud services company Coalfire for third-party support in the authorization process that is expected to be […]
The U.S. Army has unveiled a new policy codifying agile and lean software development approaches, which are characterized by iteration and close coordination with users. Such approaches are intended to expedite the development and refinement of software for warfighters, potentially driving the sustainment of a competitive military advantage, the Army said Saturday. According to the […]
The National Security Agency has issued a report highlighting ten recommended strategies to improve cloud security practices. The report emphasizes the importance of the cloud shared responsibility model, educating the need for the customer and the cloud provider to have a shared responsibility in securing cloud environments. The NSA said it could be achieved by […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has authorized an Amazon Web Services end-to-end messaging and collaboration encryption solution to operate in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region at the high-impact level. With the authorization, customers can use the AWS Wickr encryption service to secure data subject to FedRAMP’s high requirements. Wickr is designed to protect […]
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., have introduced the Federal AI Governance and Transparency Act, enabling the government to improve the transparency of artificial intelligence use in federal agencies. The bipartisan bill aims to achieve its goals by creating additional public accountability mechanisms, defining federal […]
Former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis is calling for a holistic approach to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Speaking at a National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee meeting on Tuesday, he explained that regulators need to look after the “technology, people and doctrine” elements behind AI and other systems of interest, Nextgov/FCW reported. Inglis, a past […]
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Lab has tapped technology, science and engineering solutions provider ECS as a system integrator for extending artificial intelligence capabilities to Department of Defense services and warfighter commands. ECS will perform the task under a three-year, $190 million contract it secured in the third quarter of 2023. […]
