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. The third bucket OMB is asking agencies to focus on is managing their business and acquisition processes.

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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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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Best-in-Class for Healthcare Supply Chain Management? Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? What are the pros and cons, and what supply chain strategy will pave the way to higher margins, improved supply chain risk management in healthcare and improved patient care?

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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. Fortunately, the [Chief Data Officer] Council does exist right now,” Sager said.

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FedScoop

APRIL 10, 2024

The VA is inching toward awarding contracts for its upcoming modernization of a supply chain management system, officials shared during a House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee hearing.

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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. There should be more concerted efforts to compare prices, the GAO stated.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 22, 2024

Five of the country’s leading software and tech advocacy organizations are urging Senate and House leadership to pass bipartisan, bicameral legislation aimed at improving federal agency oversight and management of software purchases before this congressional term comes to a close. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,

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FedScoop

AUGUST 1, 2024

We want to be thoughtful about risk; we’re risk managers first here. 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.”

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But it also would require the director of the Office of Management and Budget — in concert with the CDO Council — to make publicly available an “identification of resources needed by [CDOs], including to support the adoption of artificial intelligence at agencies.”

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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

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. The nature of our content management system is to not use XML content formats which impedes metadata from being included for each page.

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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

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. We cannot provide a specific release date at this time, but we are working diligently to finalize it.”

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FedScoop

AUGUST 14, 2024

A Naval Academy grad with a PhD in English from Maryland, Kaouk carved out that association during lengthy chief data officer stints with the Department of Agriculture and Office of Personnel Management, plus a three-and-a-half-year term as chair of the Federal CDO Council. We ingest and manage over 15 billion records per day.

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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

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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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. We’re already seeing pretty impressive improvements based on the SecurityStat approach.”

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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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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 12, 2024

GSA says its IT Vendor Management Office is close to finalizing a governmentwide deal with Microsoft. The Government Accountability Office found last January that out of the 24 agencies they reviewed for software licenses management, Microsoft was the most common, with agencies reporting it 36 times for a total of about $2.4

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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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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. to manage Invoicing, Collections and VAT/Sales Tax. Well it does, but only all little, as it creates just another exception to manage.

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GovLoop

JULY 17, 2024

“The threat from cryptographically relevant quantum computers — computers with enough horsepower to break cryptography as we know it today — is just around the corner,” said Philip Kwan, Director and Product Line Manager at Palo Alto Networks. In terms of practical steps, it makes sense to begin with a thorough inventory.

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NIH NITAAC

MARCH 1, 2021

It’s about using automation tools to securely audit and manage resources in the cloud. And, it’s about how cloud managed service providers are helping automate operation models to achieve continuous compliance. This new strategy will support agencies to achieve additional savings, greater security and faster services.

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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. In 2022, the Office of Personnel Management issued Skill-Based Hiring Guidance implementing the EO for agencies to further advance innovation in Federal hiring.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Lifted from their latest webinar, Jean-Baptiste Anne from Amazon Business and Vishal Patel from Ivalua offer insights into tail spend management programs and the ROI these programs can generate for procurement teams. . Budgeting challenges as tail spend typically often not planned for . Tail Spend Challenges. We’re here to help.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

How I got into procurement My peers all have a 'story' about how they got into procurement without knowing they were actually working in a Supply Chain Management (SCM) role. ​I've never met anyone who studied supply chain management at university because they knew that's what they wanted to do. So how did I get into SCM?

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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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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This course is designed for lawyers and contract managers with significant contract management and compliance responsibilities with GSA and/or VA Schedule contracts. On February 28, again at Miller & Chevalier Chartered, we will hold our GSA and VA Schedule Contracting Training for In-House Counsel course.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 3, 2024

agencies to take steps to manage risks, promote competition and share information within the executive branch. This new memo provides agencies with the tools and information they need as they acquire AI, capturing its promise while managing its risks.” New federal guidance for acquiring artificial intelligence solutions directs U.S.

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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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FedScoop

APRIL 29, 2024

CISA instructs operators and owners of critical infrastructure to govern, map, measure, and manage their use of the technology, incorporating the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s AI risk management framework.

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FedScoop

MAY 16, 2024

million to transition its identity and access management systems to a zero-trust architecture model. State recently announced a chatbot for internal uses and revised its public AI use case inventory to remove nine items from the agency website. The State Department received two investments: $18.2

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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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