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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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The point of the project, Fretwell told FedScoop, was to show how well the government was performing on certain important aspects of web page operations. 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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FedScoop

JULY 5, 2024

Now armed with a robust artificial intelligence use case inventory and a splashy new data-tracking tool , SSA’s technology leaders feel especially bullish about where they stand in their digital journey. Sustaining the agency’s digital momentum will depend in part on Congress.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 14, 2024

Compiling the CFTC’s AI use case inventory is in progress and the agency is on track to meet Office of Management and Budget timelines, Kaouk said. But we feel it’s important for our compliance and our efforts to be able to do that.” So a data and AI governance board, that’s not a requirement.

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Great Government Through Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Office of Management Budget then issued M-23-02 advising agencies how to take the threat seriously. Where to start The first step, per M-23-02, is for agencies to inventory their active cryptographic systems and re-inventory them annually through 2035.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 6, 2023

“For the first time in history, the civilian government, we have a comprehensive inventory of our asymmetric cryptography across all the agencies and their critical systems,” Nick Polk, senior adviser to the federal CISO, said Tuesday at GDIT’s Emerge Quantum event, produced by FedScoop.

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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. Is there a budget and contract (the purchase order is a contract) for these items? Is there a budget and contract (the purchase order is a contract) for these items?

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday released its draft guidance for federal agencies using artificial intelligence. Notably, challenges with AI inventories were the subject of a major Stanford report published in 2022. We need to know that those are the right decisions and the right, safe uses.

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FedScoop

APRIL 1, 2024

Hamilton, who previously served as a cybersecurity policy analyst with the Office of Management and Budget, pointed to the 2021 breach of a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Fla., By having humans monitoring these systems as well as what we’ve talked about with the importance of the automation, it’s going to come into play.”

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FedScoop

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the VA’s use case inventory , the department cites the use of a large language model that can help predict risks that patients might have before they enter surgery and another tool to “optimize surgical outcomes.” Everything that [Rosendale] said are concerns that need to be looked at,” Alterovitz said.

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FedScoop

APRIL 26, 2024

In an Office of Management and Budget memo released last month, the administration expanded what civilian agencies are required to report in their annual, public AI use case inventories, adding requirements for safety- and rights-impacting uses. The NSA didn’t immediately respond to FedScoop’s request for comment on the lawsuit.

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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. SIZ-6135 (2021).

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The use of AI by the US Federal Government is an important focus of the AI Executive Order. This is an important element of the policy because these two categories are defined (in Section 6) and in principle will cover pre-established lists of AI use, based on a set of presumptions (Section 5(b)(i) and (ii)). Section 10.1(b)

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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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Naomi Clews Consultancy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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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. The disclosures could become more important.

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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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Procurement Notes

JUNE 13, 2022

97] Since regression analysis is the method OFCCP will likely use, budget permitting, a contractor/subcontractor should seriously consider doing the same. 8] VEVRAA Hiring Benchmark, Important Terms, www.dol.gov (last viewed June 7, 2022), available at [link]. [9] such opportunities.” [103] a) ¶ 7(f)-(h). [3] 7] 41 C.F.R. § f)(1)(i).

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

First , PPI “does not include imports, because imports are by definition not produced by domestic firms.” [10] 10] In contrast, CPI covers the prices consumers pay, irrespective of whether a good or service is imported or domestically produced. 64] Compare that to the FY 2023 DoD budget of $816.7 trillion. [60]

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The advisory states that, “These misconfigurations illustrate (1) a trend of systemic weaknesses in many large organizations, including those with mature cyber postures, and (2) the importance of software manufacturers embracing secure-by-design principles to reduce the burden on network defenders.” As explained in E.O.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This consolidated database, which is a compilation of individual postings from agencies, comes as the Biden administration promises to beef up regulation of AI, including through an upcoming executive order and new Office of Management and Budget guidance for the federal government. ” Chart: Madison Alder and Rebecca Heilweil.

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