Artificial Intelligence

• Agencies are launching new reskilling, IT career opportunities in all shapes and sizes

  USDA is the latest agency to announce a new training and reskilling opportunity, this time geared for rising IT employees interested in becoming a CIO or CISO.

  Workforce

  August 07, 2019
• Artificial intelligence is more than a tool, it may be your replacement

  Jeff Neal says the potential for AI will change how employees work, present new risks and change how the American people interact with the government.

  Commentary

  August 07, 2019
• FOIA council seeks level playing field for ‘overwhelming’ IT acquisition process

  Chief FOIA Officers Council members recommend adding commercial, off-the-shelf FOIA and records management software to GSA's schedules program.

  Acquisition

  August 05, 2019
• The government’s model of identity is broken and here’s how to fix it

  Patrick Hearn, the CEO of Endeavor Worldwide, explains where agencies need to look next to provide a more secure and user-friendly identity credentialing and access management experience.

  Commentary

  August 05, 2019
• Cybersecurity and supply chain risk management

  John Zanni, CEO at Acronis SCS joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Talk Talk to discuss cybersecurity, risk management and what can be done to make the supply chain for hardware manufacturing safer.

  Federal Tech Talk

  August 05, 2019
• Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson will continue her fight in retirement

  The IRS implemented hundreds of recommendations Nina Olson made for administrative change, and 15 bills to implement her recommendations were signed into law.

  Federal Newscast

  July 31, 2019
• DoD’s IG office staffing up data analytics team to ‘proactively look for fraud’

  DoD's Office of the Inspector General is looking to data analytics and AI tools to respond more quickly to the flood of calls it gets from its whistleblower hotline.

  Big Data

  July 30, 2019
• The Navy will pay you for AI software that detects cyber attacks

  The Navy is is offering $150,000 to individuals, academia or businesses as part of a challenge to find AI software that detects cyber attacks.

  Navy

  July 29, 2019
• Trump says Coats is out as national intelligence director

  Dan Coats is resigning next month as national intelligence director after often clashing with President Trump over Russian election interference

  Agency Oversight

  July 29, 2019
• New patent or not? USPTO builds AI tools to help employees decide

  USPTO Director Andrei Iancu said the agency has begun developing artificial intelligence tools to streamline the patent approval process.

  Artificial Intelligence

  July 26, 2019
• 930gov: Where IT comes together

  Mike Smoyer, CEO of the Digital Government Institute, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss cybersecurity, IT modernization and the upcoming 930gov conference.

  Amtower Off-Center

  July 26, 2019
• Federal CIO Kent: AI pushes need to retrain ‘broader swath’ of federal employees

  Agencies have gotten buy-in from their employees when it comes to automating rote tasks liked data entry. But it’s a tougher sell for data-driven decision-making.

  Artificial Intelligence

  July 26, 2019
• Robotics process automation: A brave new world

  Tom Romeo at MAXIMUS joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how Robotics Process Automation can save federal agencies time in data collection and reduce human error.

  Federal Tech Talk

  July 26, 2019
• Don’t outlaw facial recognition

  Congress should enable facial with good oversight, not ban it.

  Tom Temin Commentary

  July 24, 2019