FedScoop

JUNE 28, 2024

Five years into its existence, the federal organization charged with helping agencies establish best practices for the use, protection and dissemination of data is a year away from sunsetting and still waiting on the release of White House guidance critical to its advisory mission. Nick Hart, the founder of Data Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based

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GovLoop

JULY 17, 2024

In the coming years, adversaries will use this evolutionary shift in compute capability to crack the cryptography that today is the bedrock of data security. Adversaries are harvesting encrypted data with an eye toward breaking them as soon as the quantum capability is available. In some sense, the threat is already here.

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FedScoop

APRIL 30, 2024

Those reports would be included in each agency’s AI use case inventory, in accordance with Office of Management and Budget guidance finalized in March. Because there’s just so many layers to state and local and federal government and how they share their data.

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FedScoop

JUNE 4, 2024

Working under the threat of technology-related budget cuts that has elicited concern from both sides of the aisle , the Department of Veterans Affairs has managed to make progress on several tech priorities, the agency’s artificial intelligence chief said last week. Editor’s note: The transcript has been edited for clarity and length.

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Great Government Through Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The problem Here’s the catch: quantum computers could also break many of the encryption algorithms we currently rely on to protect sensitive data. The Office of Management Budget then issued M-23-02 advising agencies how to take the threat seriously. Such stronger data protections became known as Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).

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FedInsider

JUNE 24, 2024

At the federal level, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo in March providing guidance for agencies to establish AI governance and risk management techniques while implementing innovative uses for their own organizations, including steps to enable sharing and reuse of AI models, code, and data.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When it comes to AI, and metadata and data, and customer experience and digital service — these three elements of it — there’s some fundamental things,” he said. government appears to be on par with other organizations, like academic institutions and nonprofits, that have limited budgets for IT and competing priorities, Woods added.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The Purchase Order has been touted as the only way to manage ‘maverick’ spend (stopping off budget expenditure), but it’s also a way to automate invoice processing. We need to take the good parts of the networks (data quality) and go back to look at AP Automation and invoice matching. What’s changed, nothing other than data!

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ivalua

JULY 11, 2022

On the AI front, Ivalua enhanced its leading CLM solution with AI-Powered Contract Data Capture. Inventory Efficiency: Improve visibility into stock and process efficiency by defining a distribution scope for each storage location. . AI-powered contract management.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 4, 2024

It has gotten a little bit tighter this year and is expected to do the same next year with the bipartisan budget agreement that came out of the debt ceiling crisis that we had back — I guess it was around last summer. We’ve had years of record appropriations in the last couple of years.

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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. Harada currently serves as the Senior Advisor, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, for the Office of Management and Budget. Listen to the full interview here.

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E-procurement Procurement Procurement Contracts Supply Chain 98

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday released its draft guidance for federal agencies using artificial intelligence. The memo strongly emphasizes AI innovation, instructing agencies to build IT infrastructure to support AI, collect data to train AI and evaluate potential applications of generative AI.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 13, 2024

For secure government work and industry areas where security is key, “that data has long-term value,” Crowder said. That same year, the Office of Management and Budget directed agencies to inventory cryptography on certain systems and estimate funding needed for migration to post-quantum standards.

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Electronics Evaluation Inventory Integration 95

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Biden administration on Thursday launched the Federal Program Inventory , a searchable tool that aims to enhance government transparency and accessibility for federal programs that offer funds to individuals, organizations or governments. Per OMB, “users will be able to explore related programs across over 100 granular sub-categories.”

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Inventory Transparency Budget Government 98

FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

The 34-page memo from Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda D. Additionally, the policy expands existing disclosures that agencies must share publicly and annually that inventory their AI uses. Those inventories must now identify whether a use is rights- or safety-impacting.

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Transparency Inventory Government Government 96

FedScoop

JANUARY 29, 2024

While the GAO was able to identify and analyze vendors based on government spend, it was “unclear which products under those licenses are most widely used because of agencies’ inconsistent and incomplete data,” the report noted. There should be more concerted efforts to compare prices, the GAO stated.

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Purchasing Inventory Accountability Budget 90

FedScoop

APRIL 1, 2024

Speaking during an Advanced Technology Academic Research Center event last week on intelligent data and cyber resilience, federal IT leaders delivered a clear message to the cyber workforce: “Automation will not replace humans,” said Amy Hamilton, senior cybersecurity adviser for policy and programs at the Department of Energy.

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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. million allocation to assist the Federal Student Aid office on a new StudentAid.gov feature called “My Activity” to centralize documents and data to track activities and status updates.

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Education Inventory Media Budget 98

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Agencies are expected to share the name of their CAIOs with the Office of Management of Budget 60 days after it finalizes guidance for government use of technology. Notably, the SSA is already using several forms of artificial intelligence, according to an agency inventory. Madison Alder contributed to this article.

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Inventory Education Budget Data 78

FedScoop

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Department of Veterans Affairs should provide disclosures to patients when the agency uses artificial intelligence to analyze sensitive information, and the VA should also be prepared to levy greater sanctions against contractors who misuse veterans’ data, House lawmakers recommended during a Monday hearing.

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Inventory Ethics Utilities Data 97

The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 22, 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. There are more than 100 use cases listed on the VA’s 2023 AI inventory , with more than 40 in an operation phase. cloud providers. [1]

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Inventory Price Contract Supply Chain 52

ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They may not consider potential issues of integrations, supplier onboarding, supply chain data management, change management and system optimization, all of which add to complexity and costs. Sustainable master data management and governance: As much as 55% of projects fail due to data management issues.

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Supply Chain Management Total Cost of Ownership Warehouse 88

ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Budgeting challenges as tail spend typically often not planned for . How to analyze your Tail Spend: Understanding spend data. Spend analysis enables automation of data cleansing, enriching and categorization. Delays in paying suppliers as they cannot be matched with an order or an initial requestor. Who purchased it.

Buyers 52

Buyers Supplier Purchasing Procurement Team 52

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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Inventory Media Budget Transportation 104

Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

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. Section 1521 allows the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer to access and control any data collected, acquired, accessed or used by any component of the DoD.

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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. race, age, sex, etc.);

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Government Accountability Office is getting ready to publish a report on certain federal agencies’ progress with artificial intelligence use case inventories. Following President Joe Biden’s recent AI executive order , the White House said the inventories are intended to be a more expansive resource for the government and the public.

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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) Section 10.1(b) Section 10.1(b) Section 10.1(b)

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Risk Management E-procurement Procurement Evaluation 67

Naomi Clews Consultancy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If I didn't, I could be left with additional inventory, nobody wanted to buy. ​​​ My job at HMV required me to benchmark data sets and other reference material to discover patterns, commonality or discrepancies to manually forecast future demand and factor in risk when calculating order quantities. .

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The hallmark of that effort to date had been a proposed rule that would, if finalized, require thousands of federal contractors to inventory, publicly disclose, and, in some cases, seek reductions in GHG emissions (see our prior discussion here ). As explained in E.O.

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Bidding Evaluation Procurement Supply Chain 52

FedScoop

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Department of Justice has disclosed that the FBI is in the “initiation” phase of using Amazon Rekognition, an image and video analysis software that has sparked controversy for its facial recognition capabilities, according to an update to the agency’s AI inventory.

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Inventory Electronics Thresholds Media 139

FedScoop

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A detailed government watchdog review of federal agencies’ artificial intelligence use case inventories found that most of the disclosures weren’t “fully comprehensive and accurate,” echoing similar findings in Stanford research and subsequent FedScoop reporting. That obligation stems from a Trump-era executive order (EO 13960) focused on AI.

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Inventory Budget Transportation Transportation 88

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. According to the announcement, the EO “marks the most significant executive action any President has ever taken to protect Americans’ data security.”

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Price Data Contract Accountability 52

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Federal agencies’ artificial intelligence use case inventories are intended to become a more expansive resource for the government and public under new draft guidance from the Office of Management and Budget.

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Inventory Transparency Budget Accountability 71

Procurement Notes

JUNE 13, 2022

36] Creating a meaningful AAP is time-intensive, particularly in gathering the needed data. 36] Creating a meaningful AAP is time-intensive, particularly in gathering the needed data. applicant tracking system (“ATS”) or AAP-customized software) to collate the needed data minimizes that burden. Hence, leveraging technology (e.g.,

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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. Sharing code, data : The final memo adds an entirely new section requiring agencies to share custom-developed AI code model information on an ongoing basis.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

Therefore, looking at the above data, February 2023 marked at least 23 (possibly 24) months of above-target inflation, which, at least when measured with headline inflation, started in March-April 2021. Finally, the data shows that the inflation picture is currently improving, but significant inflation is still occurring. households.

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