FedScoop

AUGUST 23, 2024

“CBP no longer collects commercial telemetry data owned and maintained by commercial vendors, though it continues to use the commercial telemetry data retained from its past use of vendors,” the privacy impact assessment states. Employees using this system were required to review and sign rules of behavior, the impact assessment noted.

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Impact Assessment Data Evaluation IT 137

FedScoop

APRIL 15, 2024

But, even though ICE says it has received no new requests for the use of commercial telemetry services since December 2022, the agency has filed a privacy impact assessment with the Department of Homeland Security’s privacy office for review. ICE appears to have sent mixed messages on its approach to telemetry data.

Data 145

Data Impact Assessment Purchasing Electronics 145

AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 6, 2024

These additional blog posts look further at measuring and mitigating bias: Tune ML models for additional objectives like fairness with SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning Use SageMaker Clarify to explain and detect bias Privacy protection and security When working on a new use case, consider doing a privacy impact assessment (PIA) at the design phase.

Government 75

Government Government Ethics Transparency 75

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The government wanted to shift that to 100% by 2023. Approach : Lithuania launched an ambitious public procurement reform in 2021 to reduce the country’s carbon footprint and ensure every public procurement decision considers its environmental impact. For example, in October 2023, 97.5%

Procurement 89

Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 10, 2023

And there are attributes or properties influencing the interpretability of a model (eg clarity) for which there are no evaluation metrics (yet?). Moreover, there are different (and emerging) approaches to AI explainability, and their suitability may well be contingent upon the specific intended use or function of the explanation.

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Ethics Transparency 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For example, in the past, certain guidance documents that directly impact the MAS negotiation process (and MAS contractors) has not been made available for public review. PAP 2021-05, Evaluation of FSS Program Pricing, is one such example. FedScoop recently acquired an updated draft of the legislation, which has seen major updates.

E-procurement 52

E-procurement Price Supply Chain Procurement 52

Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

On March 28, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Memorandum M-24-10 , Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence (Memo), updating and implementing OMB’s November 2023 proposed memorandum of the same name. race, age, sex, etc.);

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Impact Assessment Procurement Innovation 52