For many years the Department of Veterans Affairs has worked to make it easier for veterans to access VA services. Now the department is two months into an effort to make it easier for vendors — and what the department calls "innovators" — to put their services and capabilities before VA program and contract people. It's a website called Pathfinder.
A growing number of federal agencies are exploring machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence to further their missions or improve services to citizens.
DoD and the Air Force are currently considering 11 schools to lead the center.
The House Select Committee on Modernization seeks ways to gain traction on pre-existing recommendations to make Congress more technologically savvy.
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is taking the lead on security clearance reform and expanding its new system of automated record checks.
The Internal Revenue Service is handling more of its call volume through automation, which gives its call-center employees more time to address more complex requests from taxpayers.
The Honoring Our PACT Act would expand disability compensation and health care benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances during their military service.
Automation can help VA process survivors claims when a veteran passes away, which currently takes more than two months on average.
The CDAO team merges major Defense Department's tech efforts, bringing together a range of DoD innovation leaders.
A Virginia National Guard thinks it's found a way to save the Air Force hundreds of thousands of man hours each year just by auto-filling a single form.
Spy agencies are starting to organize around a set of common standards and data for using open source intelligence, but challenges remain.
The Biden administration has repeatedly called for equity considerations to be incorporated into new policies or programs, and more federal leaders are grasping what that means for their particular agencies.
The intelligence community is drafting a new data strategy for the first time since 2017, with a big focus on training a data savvy workforce.
For the second installment in this week's series looking at Dahlgren's activities, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with the division's Technical Director Dale Sisson.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is looking to deliver software more like the tech industry under a new strategy that sets key metrics for both internal development teams and contractors.