Automation
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The Biden administration is planning to set new rules for how federal agencies use emerging artificial intelligence tools to do their jobs.
May 04, 2023 -
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency picked a systems integrator for a computer vision project. The integrator, CACI, started to develop a proprietary function that a commercial company already offered. You can guess what happened.
May 03, 2023 -
The U.S. Marine Corps is currently embarking on a restructuring plan know as Force Design 2030. It looks to reshape its combat power for future conflicts with near-peer adversaries, i.e. China.
May 02, 2023 -
It's called Kestrel, but it's not a falcon catching mice. It's the newest Energy Department supercomputer. Kestrel just arrived at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
May 01, 2023 -
The House is in recess this week, but the Senate will hear more budget testimony and deal with judicial nominees. Federal Drive with Tom Temin got the outlook from Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan.
May 01, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ new permanent director for benefits is preparing the agency for another record-breaking year for processing claims.
April 28, 2023 -
Soldiers at a Fort Stewart innovation center design a device to detect temperature and humidity conditions that lead to mold.
April 28, 2023 -
Among the uglier mass human-rights violations going on in the world today, is forced labor imposed on the Uyghur minority by China. Congress, in the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, gave U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) the job of gathering and publicizing where this forced labor exists in the worldwide industrial supply chains.
April 27, 2023 -
IARPA's program manager explains how she hopes the research agency can make "human factors" a weakness of cyber attackers, too.
April 25, 2023 -
The Homeland Security Department’s procurement shop was busier than ever last year, spending almost $24 billion on about 60,000 transactions.
April 17, 2023 -
A recording of a panel I hosted last week at the Space Force IT Day hosted by AFCEA NOVA.
April 14, 2023 -
Shane Barney, the chief information security officer at USCIS, and Miguel Adams, the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s CISO, both say the need to educate and train the business customers on zero trust is important to their agency’s success.
April 07, 2023 -
The Navy's expansion of unmanned systems follows experimentation work it's been conducting in the Middle East, where it's combined drones with sensors connected together in a resilient mesh network.
April 05, 2023 -
Dave Lago, a product manager for DISA's Hosting and Compute Center, said the Vulcan tool set includes several commercial software capabilities to help DoD modernize software.
March 24, 2023 -
A whole new world is coming to the federal government: a virtual world. Thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence, the internet of things, 5G, and more, augmented and virtual reality — commonly called "extended reality" (XR) — is transforming how agencies deliver services, train warfighters, conduct operations in the field, and operate remotely.
March 08, 2023
