Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 , signed into law on December 22, 2023, makes numerous changes to acquisition policy. The FY 2024 NDAA also includes the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, the American Security Drone Act, and the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2024.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

Under the ACCESS Act, the Office of Management and Budget would be instructed to issue guidance for agencies to implement the bill within 180 days of its enactment. that was finalized in February 2024. The Coalition’s 2024 Spring Training Conference – What is Fair and Reasonable, Part 2: Let’s Continue the Dialogue!

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FedScoop

MAY 16, 2024

State recently announced a chatbot for internal uses and revised its public AI use case inventory to remove nine items from the agency website. ” These investments come after a second appropriations package to fund the government for fiscal year 2024 threatened to claw back $100 million from the TMF.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Currently, CIO-SP3 is set to expire on April 29, 2024. The office will also be trusted with assessing agencies’ Zero Trust maturity and will partner with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop metrics and benchmarks for tracking progress. The accompanying request for comments has a deadline of April 29, 2024.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

DHS Inventory of AI Systems for Cybersecurity is ‘Not Accurate ,’ Oversight Report Says NextGov reports that the Government Accountability Office published a report Wednesday documenting issues with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) public inventory of AI use cases, including one that was not AI.

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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.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The President is set to release his 2025 budget request on March 11, which usually kicks off appropriations negotiations for the next fiscal year. This has further incentivized a swift conclusion to the FY 2024 funding debate. Traditional defense contractors, however, will only be exempt through December 22, 2024.

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FedScoop

APRIL 29, 2024

The guidelines emphasize a range of steps, including understanding the dependencies of AI vendors that operators might be working with and inventorying AI use cases. They also encourage critical infrastructure owners to create procedures for reporting AI security risks and continually testing AI systems for vulnerabilities.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Day Two – Healthcare Focus The healthcare day will begin with keynote remarks from VA Chief Acquisition Officer Michael Parish on “Modernizing the VA Supply Chain in 2024 and Beyond.” Work on realizing the pledge will begin this month, with the department striving to provide proof-of-concept by 2024. As explained in E.O.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

b) details a set of governance reforms to be implemented in view of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s guidance to strengthen the effective and appropriate use of AI, advance AI innovation, and manage risks from AI in the Federal Government. Section 10.1(b) Section 10.1(b)

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Data culture “isn’t a byproduct or something that you also think about in addition to thinking about” other responsibilities such as data inventories, he said. Ultimately, data culture is an integral part of the role of data leaders, Oliver Wise , the Department of Commerce’s CDO, said on that same panel.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

61] In the Congressional Budget Office’s (“CBO’s”) February 2023 Budget and Economic Outlook the “CBO projects a federal budget deficit of $1.4 64] Compare that to the FY 2023 DoD budget of $816.7 69] Yet, CBO based that projection on, from 2024 to 2033, T-bill rates averaging from 2.2 trillion. [60] 60] The U.S.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Per the 2024 consolidated inventory, which is available on the Office of Management and Budgets GitHub, 37 federal agencies have reported 1,757 public AI uses. The consolidated inventory is the product of an annual AI inventory process that was initially established in December 2020 and has continued to evolve.

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FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2024

The Department of State recently removed several items from its public artificial intelligence use case inventory, including a behavioral analytics system and tools to collect and analyze media clips. OMB has previously stated that agencies “are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of their inventories.”

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FedInsider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Tune in on your favorite podcasting platform as we explore why organizations should maintain accurate inventories of SaaS applications, identifying and managing shadow SaaS apps, and implementing robust governance practices to secure and optimize their SaaS ecosystems. AI can play a pivotal role in systematically addressing this issue.

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FedScoop

MARCH 29, 2024

Among the requirements, agencies must now vet their AI uses for risks, expand what they share in their annual AI use case inventories, and select a chief AI officer. The use case inventories, which were established by a Trump-era executive order and later enshrined into federal statute, have so far lacked consistency across agencies.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 23, 2024

The Biden administration has finalized guidance for federal agencies’ 2024 artificial intelligence use case inventories, teeing up a more comprehensive process than previous years and setting a mid-December deadline. That new document is dated Aug. All of those requirements have a public reporting component.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 19, 2024

With nearly 35 years of government service, including 24 years at the Office of Management and Budget and over 16 years as the Deputy Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), Ms. Only use cases that can be publicly disclosed are included in the inventory.

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FedScoop

JULY 22, 2024

The agency is also facing questions about how its robust budget is being put to use. billion for fiscal year 2024 out of the Department of Homeland Security’s total base discretionary funding, a $265 million increase from FY2023. The Secret Service’s enterprise IT modernization budget , meanwhile, is $141.7

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services was among the first federal agencies to release its 2024 AI use case inventory Monday, reporting a roughly 66% increase in uses from the previous year. The inventory comes as agencies across the federal government are expected to release new and expanded lists of AI use cases for 2024.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Parker, who led the interagency committee that drafted that executive order, told FedScoop in September 2023 that Bidens Office of Management and Budget would benefit from improving the quality of the use case inventories, as the accounting could help the office create guidance for the government.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The 2024 Republican party platform included plans to rescind Biden’s executive order on AI ( EO 14110 ) calling it “dangerous” and saying that it “hinders AI Innovation, and imposes Radical Leftwing ideas on the” technology’s development. Because of that, he said, it might be an area where there isn’t much difference.

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