Luis Lopez, the Education Department’s chief information officer, said the new customer advisory council is helping drive technology modernization decisions across the agency.
When Congress established the TMF in 2017, it was hoped that action signaled the beginning of a long-term financial commitment to help federal agencies transition “from antiquated legacy IT systems to modern IT platforms” by providing upfront funding for modernization investments.
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, has turned to Microsoft for high-performance computing requirements. In what it calls a multi-year collaboration, the lab and the software giant will apply artificial intelligence to speed up research in clean energy. For details, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with PNNL Associate Director and Chief Digital Officer, Brian Abrahamson.
“We’re not going to be able to create innumerable amounts of requirements for all potential applications of AI and machine learning," a NIST official said.
It's not an agency, but it works to transfer vital technology developments out of federal laboratories and into the market. The Federal Lab Consortium encompasses some 300 federal organizations.
Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan told Federal News Network in an interview Friday that NPRC employees who put in extra hours on holidays and weekends were essential to driving down the backlog.
The national security community is stronger when users can take advantage of a connected foundation for secure innovation. But as classification levels for certain workloads increase, how can agencies ensure a seamless user experience while still protecting vital data and applications—and how should this work in an era of multicloud environments?
Agencies across the federal government are tapping into the TMF to financially support projects that will improve public-facing services.