FedScoop

APRIL 22, 2024

A month later, Eric Hysen, the department’s chief information officer and chief AI officer, told FedScoop that there’s been “good interest” in using generative AI within the agency. Zhou also pointed to record management and data storage as a potential issue.

Electronics 134

Electronics Impact Assessment Transparency Thresholds 134

FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A recent public records request filed by FedScoop saw much of the information redacted, including a section on “scores” that could possibly reference the efficacy of the algorithms. 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.

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

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

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

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

The one finding that should definitely not go unnoticed is that, according to DRCF, ‘ Buyers can lack the technical expertise to effectively scrutinise the [algorithmic systems] they are procuring, whilst vendors may limit the information they share with buyers ’ (at 9). The issue is further compounded by the lack of standards and metrics.

Procurement 52

Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 26, 2024

For instance, there is a general duty of AI literacy, which means that providers and deployers of AI systems shall take appropriate measures to gain the knowledge and skills to “make an informed deployment of AI systems, as well as to gain awareness about the opportunities and risks of AI and possible harm it can cause” (Recital 56).

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. That information, according to the disclosure, is supposed to be shared with U.S. The app’s update would allow nonimmigrants who are departing the U.S.

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

Correctly done, racial equity budgeting can make existing inequalities visible and help governments understand the impact of their choices on racial equity outcomes and drive more informed decisions. Instead, it is about the quality of spending and analyzing fiscal policies and budgetary decisions to understand their impact.

Budget 52

Budget Capacity Education Participation 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In its place, the realignment focuses and centralizes MAS contracting management structure for the Office of Information Technology Category, the Office of Professional Services & Human Capital Categories, and the Office of General Supplies and Services Categories. Third, the alignment provides an opportunity to improve data management.

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

JULY 22, 2024

The Secret Service’s chief technology officer and chief information officer did not respond to requests for comment. In the past, the agency purchased licenses from the data mining services company Creative Radicals for social media threat monitoring. Many of the companies mentioned did not respond to requests for comment.

Media 86

Media Impact Assessment Budget Data 86

FedScoop

MARCH 10, 2025

An Office of Personnel Management watchdog investigation into cybersecurity risks on government networks and the potential exposure of sensitive information will include an examination of DOGE access to those systems. We have also just begun an engagement to assess risks associated with new and modified information systems at OPM, Vint wrote.

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 4, 2025

A coalition of labor unions is suing the Treasury Department and Secretary Scott Bessent over the disclosure of Americans personal and financial information to Elon Musk and the tech billionaires Department of Government Efficiency surrogates. In a lawsuit filed Monday to the U.S.

Impact Assessment 142

Impact Assessment Government Government Leadership 142

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 lawsuit also cites reports that claim the server is retaining information about every employee of the U.S. 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.

E-procurement 133

E-procurement Impact Assessment Efficiency Data 133

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. A court filing showed that a DOGE staffer had violated Treasury security policies by improperly sharing sensitive personal information outside the agency.

Impact Assessment 85

Impact Assessment Media Accountability Government 85

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. 706(1), the lawsuit states.

Impact Assessment 145

Impact Assessment Distribution Efficiency Government 145

FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2025

During the first few weeks of the current Trump administration, the Office of Personnel Management asked federal agencies to make an administrative change that would open the door to more political appointees in the governments top roles for IT leadership: chief information officers. That implies those positions are general.

IT 88

IT Leadership Efficiency Government 88