The National Archives and Records Administration, a federal agency responsible for preserving historically valuable records, has released a draft of its plan to make digital records more accessible to the public. The draft version of NARA’s 2022-2026 Strategic Plan outlines the changes that the agency believes it needs to make before it can fully embrace […]
The Department of Energy has awarded Rigetti Computing a contract to lead a three-year quantum simulation project for fusion energy. Work on the $3.1 million project will be done in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Southern California, Rigetti said Thursday. Patricia Falcone, deputy director for science and technology at LLNL, […]
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $20 million grant to a new artificial intelligence optimization institute led by the University of California San Diego. UC San Diego said The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale will develop optimization tools for AI and machine learning that can support strategically important disciplines, including semiconductor design, robotics […]
Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created modeling software designed to plot the energy profiles of about 129 buildings in the United States. ORNL said the Automatic Building Energy Modeling software suite uses publicly available data to create visualizations of energy consumption, informing efforts related to retrofitting and carbon emissions. Backed by the […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology should account for the possibility of a global catastrophe caused by artificial intelligence, according to a research team from the University of California, Berkeley. UC Berkeley issued the warning in an evidence paper responding to NIST’s draft framework on the adoption of AI across the federal government, FedScoop […]
Ted Kaouk, the chief data officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will leave his post to serve as CDO of the Office of Personnel Management. He will also serve as OPM’s deputy director for human capital data management and modernization starting sometime in October, Federal News Network reported. During his tenure at USDA, Kaouk […]
Brillient, a modernization solutions provider, has been awarded a contract to support the Internal Revenue Service’s digital transformation efforts. The Enterprise Digitalization and Case Management Office Scanning as a Service contract is a multi-phased deal that encompasses a range of digitalization services, Brillient said Monday. Ed Burrows, vice president of intelligent solutions at Brillient, said […]
The United States and United Kingdom’s newly formed partnership on quantum information science should focus on addressing the emerging technology’s threat to national security, an industry executive said. On Nov. 4, the two nations released a joint statement outlining their priorities in quantum information science, which is expected to unlock exponentially more powerful computers and […]
The Department of Homeland Security has released a strategic plan on how it will pursue artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities. DHS said the 18-page document was developed by its Science and Technology Directorate. The plan highlights the inherent risks of advancing AI technologies and what can be done about them. “This actionable plan lays […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $70 million in funding for research in Earth system model development to advance its Energy Exascale Earth System Model project. E3SM is an ongoing project aimed at optimizing the DOE’s allocation of laboratory resources for Earth system modeling, simulation and prediction. The new Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing funding […]
