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The Department of Veterans Affairs is ramping up IT spending across several major projects, but those contracting dollars are increasingly concentrated amongst a handful of large companies.

This week on Accelerating Government, host Dave Wennergren talks with more winners of ACT-IAC’s 2023 Innovation Awards and a leading industry voice on innovation.

Arlene Joyner, the deputy assistant secretary and director of the Office of Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain for the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services, said data initiatives are helping understand where supply chain shortages are happening.

The NIST project is evolving as agencies look to more quickly adopt software while complying with security and privacy frameworks.

DoD introduced a new plan to modernize records keeping and make it more accessible as agencies move away from paper records.

The Office of Personnel Management took a step to address more immediate concerns from retiring federal employees, ahead of the agency’s long-term efforts to modernize retirement services.

To ensure value out of artificial intelligence, first understand what AI actually is, versus a buzzword make popular by emergent generative applications. That’s according to Jay Meil, chief data scientist and managing director for artificial intelligence at SAIC.

Lauren Knausenberger, the outgoing chief information officer of the Air Force, said if requested funding for fiscal 2024 comes through as hoped for, several transformation initiatives will get a much needed boost.