Federal News Network

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Over the course of several months, the ITVMO, the Office of Management and Budget and Microsofts federal division discussed the governments requests and proposed additional ways to establish a strategic partnership, Stanton wrote in the blog obtained by Federal News Network.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As procurement professionals, you are constantly balancing tight budgets, increasing demands, and the need to streamline operations. What is Lawson Vendor Managed Inventory? This proactive approach helps eliminate stockouts and reduces excess inventory, minimizing waste and operational downtime.

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FedScoop

APRIL 25, 2024

Notably, the department’s components are already using myriad forms of AI, according to the agency’s AI Inventory. Boyce was previously a senior policy analyst at the Office of Management and Budget, where he focused on FedRAMP and AI policy, according to DHS. DHS CIO Eric Hysen currently serves as the agency’s chief AI officer.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 20, 2024

In a report made public Monday , the Government Accountability Office outlined 37 total priority recommendations to improve how the Office of Management and Budget encourages adequate technology-related practices across the federal landscape.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to the survey, 50% of respondents said their agencies are actively developing their post-quantum cryptography readiness strategies and 35% are defining their plans and budgets. Interestingly, 17% said they had no defined plans for post-quantum cryptography and it wasn’t a priority.

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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., Don’t worry about your job going away from AI. AI is just going to be your personal assistant and help you even more.”

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FedScoop

APRIL 10, 2024

Michael Parrish, the VA’s chief acquisition officer and principal executive director, said during the hearing that the agency does not view the SCM as a “major” IT project because the VA has not established a “firm budget” or a “firm schedule.”

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ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 1, 2024

AI Inventory Jumpstart works to simplify the process of annually cataloging AI use cases at federal agencies as mandated by the Office of Management and Budget while […]

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FedScoop

AUGUST 22, 2024

In January, the GAO released findings from its investigation into federal civilian agencies’ software licenses, coming to the conclusion that better tracking and inventorying is needed to avoid over-purchasing.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 29, 2024

For their recommendations, the GAO focused on nine agencies based on the size of their IT budgets and then zeroed in on the five most widely used licenses within those agencies. “Without better data, agencies also don’t know whether they have the right number of licenses for their needs,” the report continued.

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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. Annual summary usage reports for safety- and rights-impacting AI align with an overarching goal to create more comprehensive use case inventories. “We

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Inside Government Contracts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Each agency and contract can offer unique challenges, but we offer a few key considerations below to guide contractors in assessing their approaches to potential shutdowns: Assess Impacted Contracts – As a first step, contractors should take inventory of their government contracts to assess how a shutdown could impact performance.

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FedScoop

JUNE 28, 2024

That law requires the Office of Management and Budget to release “Phase II guidance” for agencies to implement its open data and comprehensive data inventories requirements. A spokesperson for USAID said the agency has an established Data Administration and Technical Advisory Board, which functions as its governance entity.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A best-in-class solution may also offer inventory management features to enable you to auto-replenish orders, as well as workflows with client-defined business rules to enforce payment channel buying strategies. In fact, 74% of ERP implementations go Over Budget and they take longer to roll out. Efficient warehouse management.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 18, 2017

Oversees the management of warehouse and parts room operations, inventory control and surplus property. Experience with budgeting preferred. Ensures accountability, compliance and consistent interpretation and application with all current and applicable state and federal laws, agency policies and procedures, rules and regulations.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. “It leaves room for other unofficial websites to go to the top of search rankings, and to be the first stop for the citizens when they’re browsing.”

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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 the tax and budget allocation information correct?

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GovLoop

JULY 17, 2024

That means “you want to make sure you have executive backing and proper resources and budgets in place.” In terms of practical steps, it makes sense to begin with a thorough inventory. Doing a very thorough crypto inventory is extremely important.

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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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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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NIH NITAAC

MARCH 1, 2021

This is the first cloud policy update in seven years, offering a path forward for agencies to migrate to a safe and secure cloud infrastructure. This new strategy will support agencies to achieve additional savings, greater security and faster services.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Budgeting challenges as tail spend typically often not planned for . Allow users to s earch across internally hosted supplier catalogs, Amazon Business, and other supplier sites to view and compare the results on a single screen, with real-time pricing and inventory. . Extra work processing supplier invoices, creating higher costs.

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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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Naomi Clews Consultancy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If I didn't, I could be left with additional inventory, nobody wanted to buy. ​I was responsible for my individual budget that included a Profit and Loss (P&L) account. Two incidences where this happened: Wet Wet Wet - Love is all around and Brian Adams - Everything I do, I do it for you.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Office of Management and Budget is getting close to finalizing long-awaited data guidance required by a 2019 law that mandates the machine-readability of federal information, two White House officials with direct knowledge of that work confirmed to FedScoop. The wait on corresponding OMB guidance, however, has lingered.

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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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FedScoop

AUGUST 13, 2024

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. The National Security Agency, for example, released its Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Jason Miller is the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget. In fact, OMB is expected to release an updated governmentwide inventory of AI uses cases on or around Dec. In fact, OMB is expected to release an updated governmentwide inventory of AI uses cases on or around Dec.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 1, 2024

Following the release of President Joe Biden’s AI executive order and Office of Management and Budget guidance on AI , Whitman said the agency now has a permanent directive where “anyone at GSA can apply to use generative AI tools for these non-sensitive use cases.” Whitman noted that “we don’t have clearance there yet.”

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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. Both the GSA and the Office of Management and Budget have faced challenges in convincing lawmakers to meet funding levels proposed by the Biden administration.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The subcommittee’s first recommendation was simply for the Office of Management and Budget to push federal law enforcement agencies to follow a checklist when testing AI tools in the field. The post Law enforcement agencies need standardized AI field testing, presidential advisers say appeared first on FedScoop.

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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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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. “I personally feel that we can harness that data to develop and deploy sophisticated analytics and AI capabilities.”

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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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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.

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ivalua

JULY 11, 2022

Inventory Efficiency: Improve visibility into stock and process efficiency by defining a distribution scope for each storage location. . This will greatly simplify the user journey from identifying a need,all the way through to getting supplier quotes and completing an order.

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