The Office of Personnel Management has awarded Excella a spot on its five-year, $100 million Data Science and Analytics Support Services blanket purchase agreement and has given the company two task orders under the BPA. For the first task order, Excella will help the OPM develop customer-facing data products that give users direct access to […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Cemetery Administration will improve its Veterans Legacy Memorial online platform to speed up responses to veterans’ pre-need eligibility determination requests for burial in a VA national cemetery. While the NCA has already reduced the time needed for answering such requests to a few days, Matthew Quinn, VA undersecretary for […]
The National Energy Technology Laboratory is migrating a virtual research data platform to a multicloud environment to better support larger datasets, faster throughput, secure collaboration and other tools and resources. The Energy Data eXchange platform provides access to research funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, NETL said Thursday. […]
A Securities and Exchange Commission official said the agency is not yet adopting third-party generative artificial intelligence tools because of the risks. Speaking at a recent Advanced Technology Academic Research Center panel discussion, Jennifer Diamantis, special counsel to the chief AI officer in the SEC’s Office of Information Technology Strategy and Innovation, said that the […]
ICF has secured two contract option-year extensions from the Department of Health and Human Services worth a total of $50 million to modernize systems for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. For the first contract extension, ICF will transition the CMS Quality Improvement and Evaluation System into the cloud-based Internet Quality Improvement System. The cloud […]
The Department of the Treasury has recovered over $375 million after it embraced an artificial intelligence-powered fraud detection process in late 2022. The decision to incorporate AI into Treasury operations comes with a growing number of check fraud cases. The department shared that suspicious activity related to check fraud nearly doubled between 2021 and 2022, […]
Reston, Virginia-based Carahsoft Technology has announced that it will serve as a public sector distributor for artificial intelligence and data analytics software maker SAS. All 15 executive departments of the federal government and all 50 states use SAS products, Carahsoft said. The distribution agreement is expected to simplify the acquisition of solutions such as SAS […]
The U.S. Naval Warfare Information Systems Command has launched a new offering designed to speed up application creation and improve automation. The OneNAVWAR Digital Innovation Nexus is built on the Microsoft Power Platform suite of business development tools and supports the next generation of the Navy Information Superiority Vision. The offering is designed to provide […]
Guy Cavallo, chief information officer at the Office of Personnel Management, said that Microsoft’s Azure cloud-native cybersecurity platform helped the agency protect sensitive data it handles from malicious actors. In a recent interview, Cavallo said the agency opted for cloud-based cybersecurity because it offered the perfect place to store a significant amount of data with […]
Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., said he is concerned over the potential security threats from artificial general intelligence, a theoretical form of artificial intelligence that could rival human abilities. In an interview with FedScoop, Foster, a particle physicist before his election to the House of Representatives in 2007, said that potential pitfalls associated with artificial general […]
