FedScoop

APRIL 22, 2024

But the agency’s provisional approval of a few generative AI products — which include ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Claude 2, DALL-E2, and Grammarly, per a privacy impact assessment — call for closer examination in regard to federal transparency. Zhou also pointed to record management and data storage as a potential issue.

Electronics 134

Electronics Impact Assessment Transparency Thresholds 134

FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Centering worker empowerment is considered by DOL to be the document’s “North Star.” That principle pushes employers and developers to integrate “early and regular input from workers into the adoption and use of AI.”

Impact Assessment 122

Impact Assessment Transparency Quality Ethics 122

FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

At the time of the publication of that disclosure, the AI tool, which describes its training data as “agency generated,” was in production for more than one year. While we continue to have a human assess every tip, AI can help our teams be better at their jobs and keep Americans safe by prioritizing our workload.”

Inventory 138

Inventory Thresholds Media Electronics 138

FedScoop

OCTOBER 16, 2023

is actively working to introduce a “light touch” artificial intelligence bill that would aim to protect consumers and entrepreneurs by requiring AI companies to conduct risk and impact assessments for critical-impact AI systems and then undergo certification of such systems, according to a draft of the legislation obtained by FedScoop.

Impact Assessment 116

Impact Assessment Media Innovation Transparency 116

AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 6, 2024

This targeted approach offers clearer accountability, enhanced transparency, simplified risk assessment, and focused testing procedures. Cloud solutions can offer major environmental benefits with specialised data centres. Fairness Imbalances in training data may result in bias that impacts model decisions.

Government 75

Government Government Ethics Transparency 75

ivalua

MARCH 4, 2019

What is known is how no deal is expected to impact the UK economy, businesses and their supply chains. The government’s no deal Brexit impact assessment detailed everything that organisations have been warning about – new procedures, new regulations and long delays at UK/EU borders. What happens next is anyone’s guess.

Supply Chain 45

Supply Chain Supplier Impact Assessment Procurement 45

University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Digitalisation could reduce the administrative burden through automation, generate data insights to inform policies and boost efficiency in public spending, and serve as a living lab for GovTech experimentation.

Procurement 52

Procurement Government Government Buyers 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. Can everything be green?

Procurement 89

Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

New legislation is required to impose specific minimum requirements of eg data governance and algorithmic impact assessment and related transparency across the public sector, to address the issue of lack of standards and metrics but without reliance on their development by and within the AI industry.

Procurement 52

Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 26, 2024

In certain situations, deployers have additional duties to carry out data protection impact assessments (Article 26(9)) and cooperate with national EU authorities (Article 26(12)).

Impact Assessment 52

Impact Assessment Influencing Import Manufacturing 52

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 10, 2023

To that effect, it is important to identify an area of public sector digitalisation which is primarily or solely left to ‘regulation by contract’ through procurement—to isolate it from the interaction with other tools of digital regulation (such as data protection, or sectoral regulation).

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Ethics Transparency 52

FedScoop

MARCH 7, 2024

The expansion of biometrics — and in particular, personal data about peoples’ faces — comes amid ongoing issues with the app’s technical capabilities. The update is also intended to decrease travel document fraud and improve the agency’s “ability to identify criminals and known or suspected terrorists.”

Impact Assessment 135

Impact Assessment Inventory Data Electronics 135

Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

This will include improving IT infrastructure to be able to handle AI training and inference; developing adequate infrastructure and capacity to share, curate, and govern agency data for use in AI modeling; updating cybersecurity; and integrating the “potential beneficial uses of generative AI in their missions.” race, age, sex, etc.);

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Impact Assessment Procurement Innovation 52

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 8, 2024

Data quality and availability are key. Generate disaggregated data to enable racial equity assessments, conduct monitoring and evaluation, and generate evidence to strengthen decision-making. Racial equity budgeting tools allow governments to identify gaps and analyze the impact of spending on different racial groups.

Budget 52

Budget Capacity Education Participation 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Third, the alignment provides an opportunity to improve data management. FAS and the federal government as a whole are in the midst of a management transition towards data-driven decision making. Data context is critical to data driven decision making. How old is the data? Is the data accurate?

E-procurement 52

E-procurement Price Supply Chain Procurement 52

FedScoop

JUNE 26, 2024

The document suggests that those looking to deploy generative artificial intelligence conduct a privacy impact assessment, as well as tailored generative AI-focused training for employees with access to protected data and the implementation of a full lifecycle stewardship of data.

Education 134

Education Impact Assessment Data Networking 134

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

There is a commonality of risks (eg discrimination, data governance risks) that would be better managed if there was a joined up approach. general minimum practices Both in relation to safety- and rights-impact AI uses, the Draft AI in Government Policy would require agencies to engage in risk management both before and while using AI.

Risk Management 69

Risk Management E-procurement Procurement Evaluation 69

FedScoop

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“Iris scanners are just a part of our biometric collection, like the collection of fingerprints and photographs for facial comparison,” said the spokesperson, who also cited a 2017 privacy impact assessment. Iris recognition, originally, wasn’t done that way.

IT 113

IT Impact Assessment Thresholds Electronics 113

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

CBP has created a privacy threshold analysis an internal document used to analyze potential privacy risks associated with a new technology and whether a privacy impact assessment is necessary for Starlink internet, a step from agency officials that indicates that the SpaceX service is under serious consideration.

Thresholds 96

Thresholds Impact Assessment Telecommunication Evaluation 96

How to Crack a Nut

JUNE 26, 2024

By creating friction, I mean the need for a structured decision-making process that allows for collective deliberation within and around the adopting institution, and which is supported by rigorous impact assessments that tease out second and third order implications from AI adoption, as well as thoroughly interrogating first order issues around data (..)

Procurement 64

Procurement Import Participation Impact Assessment 64

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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. The order also requires that agencies convene AI governance bodies and that they develop enterprise AI strategies.

Inventory 105

Inventory Impact Assessment Transportation Transportation 105

FedScoop

JULY 22, 2024

In the past, the agency purchased licenses from the data mining services company Creative Radicals for social media threat monitoring. The Secret Service has also disclosed a social media screening contract through a privacy impact assessment. Many of the companies mentioned did not respond to requests for comment.

Media 86

Media Impact Assessment Budget Data 86

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Some of those systems might end up on OpenNet , a global network State uses for data applications. A privacy impact assessment for the system explains that the platform is a data and file storage system for the agency. A platform called AIDNet may also be shut down, the source added.

Impact Assessment 115

Impact Assessment Data Networking IT 115

FedScoop

MARCH 10, 2025

OPMs Office of Inspector General said in a letter to Democrats on the House Oversight Committee that it would incorporate parts of the lawmakers February request to probe DOGEs unauthorized accessing of IT networks and Americans data into existing work.

IT 118

IT Impact Assessment Networking Government 118

FedScoop

MARCH 3, 2025

The Office of Personnel Management last Friday quietly replaced the privacy impact assessment for the governmentwide email system it has been using to send mass email blasts to the entirety of the federal government. The original PIA reads: “The Employee Response Data is explicitly voluntary. Why’s that important?

Impact Assessment 110

Impact Assessment Media Accountability Import 110

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As part of its motion for dismissal, OPM submitted to the court a privacy impact assessment, which details how the system it is using to send email blasts to all federal employees regarding the Trump administrations reduction in force efforts collects, hosts and disseminates information to federal employees.

Impact Assessment 100

Impact Assessment Warehouse Efficiency Capacity 100

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The plaintiffs presume that if the server is left operational, it will continue to collect personally identifiable information on any federal workers who respond to the previous emails and put that data at risk of compromise. The lawsuit also cites reports that claim the server is retaining information about every employee of the U.S.

E-procurement 133

E-procurement Impact Assessment Efficiency Data 133

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

But according to the lawsuit, once Bessent was confirmed, he placed that employee on leave and provided the DOGE crew with full access to the Bureaus data and the computer systems that house them. A Treasury employee initially prevented DOGE workers from accessing those records, through the departments Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

Impact Assessment 142

Impact Assessment Government Government Leadership 142

FedScoop

APRIL 14, 2025

One of Elon Musks DOGE surrogates has a pathway to accessing the sensitive data of millions of Americans housed in Treasury Department systems, a federal judge ruled late Friday. Judge Jeannette A.

Impact Assessment 85

Impact Assessment Media Accountability Government 85

FedScoop

AUGUST 2, 2024

While roll call votes on Cruz’s proposals to repeal the AI executive order in its entirety and prevent environmental impact assessments on AI systems failed at the markup Wednesday, another amendment that would dull the teeth of federal government actions to prevent bias and discrimination in AI systems advanced in a substitute via voice vote.

Impact Assessment 132

Impact Assessment Inventory Innovation Balance 132

FedScoop

JANUARY 28, 2025

A lawsuit filed in federal court Monday alleges that the Office of Personnel Management set up an on-premise server to conduct last weeks mass email blast to federal employees and store information it received in response without doing a privacy impact assessment on the system as required by law.

Impact Assessment 145

Impact Assessment Distribution Efficiency Government 145

FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2025

And during the Biden administration, the departments of Energy and Transportation and the Social Security Administration all had non-career CIOs, according to data from the Plum Book , a dataset of government roles maintained by OPM. DHS, meanwhile, is presidentially appointed but not Senate-confirmed.

IT 88

IT Leadership Efficiency Government 88