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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.
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DIA is doing proactive inspections to make sure agencies are following cyber standards for securing the top-secret JWICS network.
DoD’s new guidance clarifies what FedRAMP equivalency means and requires cloud service providers handling controlled unclassified information to get a letter of attestation from a third-party organization that says they meet the FedRAMP Moderate baseline standards without plans of action and milestones.
This legislation comes at an opportune time: Cybercriminals are getting smarter by the day, carrying out more sophisticated attacks at a higher volume than ever before. As technologies like artificial intelligence continue to proliferate, and organizations become increasingly digitized, the risk of breaches resulting in material impact grows.
The U.S. Geological Survey has turned to quantum technology to help it with the next generation of challenges in geological science. It established a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with a quantum company called Q-CTRL.
PNNL researchers are tasked with protecting critical infrastructure to prevent and mitigate the damage that could be done from a cyber-attack on software, firmware and the networks that they operate on. The laboratory’s goal is to create the ability to detect potential threats and protect systems from attacks that sometimes originate in the firmware directly from manufacturers.
Sort of lost in all the other activity in the last few months, is a Biden administration proposal to create a new Office of Management and Budget circular. The circular describes a centralized data management strategy to help agencies with acquisition decision-making.
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