Automation

The Defense Department launched two pilots to test out its governance, processes, and tools to gauge how artificial intelligence can impact mission areas.

Patrick Curran, Federal CTO at Planet Technologies, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss how Microsoft is evolving to better respond to needs of today’s federal IT professionals. February 5, 2019

Michael Friedrich, chief architect at Cyxtera Technologies – Federal, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss how authentication is being using to protect high value data sets from cyber attacks. January 21, 2019

Margie Graves, the deputy chief information officer of the government at the Office of Management and Budget, said the administration is trying to identify innovative approaches for recruiting and training IT workers.

In today’s Federal Newscast, bills to improve agency oversight of sexual harassment and give federal interns the same protection as employees pass the House.

Automation won’t put federal employees out of a job anytime soon, but the spread of robotic process automation (RPA) in agencies will likely have an impact on the types of government jobs that are available within the next decade or so, the General Services Administration’s leading voice on RPA said Wednesday.

The General Services Administration approves the technologies and the vendors and the White House sets the parameters for the security of federal facilities. But GAO says upgrades aren’t happening quickly enough.

Brian Ahier, president of Advanced Health Information Exchange Resources, joined host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss healthcare IT, open data, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. January 1, 2019

Tom Afferton, vice president of Civil Solutions at Northrop Grumman, joins host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off the Shelf to discuss IT modernization and how cloud migration, cyber protection and process automation are helping federal agencies meet customer needs. January 1, 2019

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Postal Service’s inspector general said USPS has more than a million square feet in excess real estate.

Justin Herman, the head of GSA’s Emerging Citizen Technology office, said Tuesday that the agency plans to host on a governmentwide forum on robotic process automation (RPA) on Jan. 19.

Ellen Sundra, vice president of Americas, Systems Engineering at ForeScout Technologies, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss the NIST cyber framework, and how federal agencies should manage their IoT devices. December 18, 2018

The Department of Health and Human Services can now use live data from its acquisition shop in order to buy things faster, and more cheaply, using a blockchain-and-artificial intelligence tool called HHS Accelerate.

New analysis from Deloitte is shedding light on automation’s potential for the federal workforce.