The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is drafting a generative artificial intelligence guidance, as current government playbooks do not fully prescribe the specific steps each agency should take, a CDC official said. Speaking at AFCEA Bethesda’s Health IT Summit 2024, Travis Hoppe, CDC associate director for data science and analytics, disclosed that the agency […]
The White House has released a new draft policy to prevent China and other foreign entities from developing artificial intelligence models using U.S. infrastructure. The “know your customer” regulation would require U.S. cloud providers to implement a customer identification program to verify foreign users, U.S. News reported Friday. Cloud companies would also need to certify […]
Customs and Border Protection has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology a spot on a potential 14-year, $1.8 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for surveillance systems modernization. GDIT and two other awardees will have the chance to compete for contracts to modernize CBP’s Consolidated Tower & Surveillance Equipment system. If awarded task orders, GDIT and GD Mission Systems […]
Integrating AUKUS quantum technology research and development can expand the naval superiority of the military alliance of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States over China, particularly in submarine warfare, industry experts told Breaking Defense. The alliance’s cooperation in quantum science, as well as in artificial intelligence and robotics R&D, can lead to “a […]
Red Cat Holdings has announced that it will integrate Teledyne FLIR’s Prism artificial intelligence platform as part of the U.S. Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance Tranche 2 program of record. The Prism platform is a repository of software libraries that enable autonomous object detection, classification and tracking in real-time regardless of daylight conditions. Prism will be […]
The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force is implementing in 2024 a pilot program for a shared research infrastructure that will boost and democratize access to support resources vital for responsible artificial intelligence development. The National Science Foundation and 11 other federal agencies, as well as 25 private entities and nonprofit organizations, are supporting […]
Cloud, security and compliance acceleration solution provider stackArmor has disclosed support for the research work of Paul Avillach on the use of cloud computing for health care research. Avillach, a multiple principal investigator at the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity program, collaborated with Amazon Web Services to develop the […]
Auterion Government Solutions has announced that it will provide the U.S. Customs and Border Protection with additional small unmanned aircraft systems to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The agency exercised an option under the Commercial Solutions Opening Pilot Program to order more of the platforms, Auterion said. CBP received an initial delivery of unmanned […]
Leidos and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command demonstrated the effectiveness of a counter-small unmanned aerial system during the Maneuver and Fires Integration Experiment 2024, where they correctly tracked threats amid obstacles. During the exercise, Leidos and DEVCOM Aviation and Missile Center’s Advanced Multilayer Mobile Force Protection team used the C-sUAS detector to track […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced the second edition of its search for artificial intelligence-driven tools for adult education and workforce development in advanced technological fields like data science. Run under the banner “Building an Adaptive & Competitive Workforce,” the project will award $750,000 to the winning tools. The competition has three phases, […]
