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. For a “data rich” agency like SSA, Brown said it made sense to O’Malley to give website users the ability to “see that granular data.”

Data 103

Data IT Budget Leadership 103

GovLoop

APRIL 21, 2023

One challenge for reducing the risk of a data breach, however, is the complexity of modern IT environments. Although government agencies can’t totally eliminate their cybersecurity risk, there are practical steps government employees can take to reduce it. When it comes to cybersecurity, you can’t protect what you don’t know exists.

Data 52

Data Inventory Accountability Government 52

FedScoop

AUGUST 20, 2024

Those recommendations include ensuring FedRAMP usage in agencies, releasing guidance for agencies’ implementation of transparent data requirements, modernizing legacy systems to avoid higher costs for maintenance, avoiding cybersecurity pitfalls and updating procedures for electronic information system functionalities for recordkeeping systems. “OMB

Electronics 111

Electronics Inventory Data Transparency 111

GovLoop

JULY 3, 2024

But people aren’t always aware their data is already at risk of a quantum attack, according to Hickman. “We We know data is being stolen now for decryption later,” he said. Keyfactor’s Command platform “has the ability to inventory certificate authorities from a number of different points,” Hickman said.

Inventory 105

Inventory Leadership Data Management 105

FedScoop

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Department of State is looking into off-the-shelf large language models that could be customized for its use cases and be used with an array of government data, according to a recent disclosure from the agency.

IT 97

IT Inventory Purchasing Data 97

FedScoop

AUGUST 1, 2024

CISA’s AI inventory currently lists a dozen use cases, many of which use machine learning and natural language processing technologies. The agency’s Automated Indicator Sharing, for example, processes real-time machine-readable cyber threat indicators and defensive measures and facilitates the sharing of that data with other agencies.

IT 123

IT Inventory Utilities Data 123

FedScoop

MAY 13, 2024

NASA has named David Salvagnini, the space agency’s chief data officer, as its chief artificial intelligence officer, fulfilling a requirement laid out in recent White House guidance and President Joe Biden’s executive order on AI. NASA makes use of myriad forms of artificial intelligence, according to the agency’s AI inventory.

Inventory 115

Inventory Collaboration Data Import 115

USFCR

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Its ability to analyze vast data, learn, and make predictions or decisions. Retail : AI boosts customer experience with tailored recommendations and inventory management. AI is about machines doing tasks that usually need human intelligence, like learning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. AI's game-changing aspect?

Inventory Management 97

Inventory Management Retail IT Inventory 97

FedScoop

JUNE 10, 2024

The congressional watchdog noted in its release that the VA has implemented six of its 29 open priority recommendations, including the deployment of an automated data tool used to improve acquisition workforce records and taking steps to modernize the agency’s performance management system across the Veterans Health Administration.

Inventory 100

Inventory Purchasing Electronics Change Management 100

FedScoop

AUGUST 28, 2024

Under O’Malley, the SSA has accelerated paper-to-online transitions across the agency, embracing digital best practices and leaning in especially to data, artificial intelligence and modernization. The agency earlier this year launched its SecurityStat data-tracking tool while continuing to build out its AI use case inventory.

Inventory 93

Inventory Leadership Data Import 93

FedScoop

JUNE 28, 2024

Five years into its existence, the federal organization charged with helping agencies establish best practices for the use, protection and dissemination of data is a year away from sunsetting and still waiting on the release of White House guidance critical to its advisory mission. Nick Hart, the founder of Data Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based

IT 89

IT Data Transparency Inventory 89

FedScoop

APRIL 2, 2024

But I want to do that with data that’s unclassified but specific to the State Department, where it wouldn’t be appropriate for it to get hoovered up into the world,” Fletcher said. What I don’t want is State Department data leaving the State Department environment.” The agency declined to comment further on Fletcher’s speech.

Inventory 121

Inventory Data Networking IT 121

FedScoop

OCTOBER 5, 2023

laboratory did not classify high-risk or sensitive property, including its information technology equipment, leaving it vulnerable to “loss, theft, or misuse of technologies, technical data, and information. Unauthorized access could lead to loss, theft or misuse of technologies, technical data and information.” the report states.

Export 85

Export Inventory Transportation Transportation 85

FedScoop

APRIL 25, 2024

The AI Corps, part of the department’s office of the chief information officer, will be expected to provide guidance for topic areas including software engineering, machine learning, and data science. Notably, the department’s components are already using myriad forms of AI, according to the agency’s AI Inventory.

IT 115

IT Inventory Budget Engineering 115

GovLoop

JULY 17, 2024

In the coming years, adversaries will use this evolutionary shift in compute capability to crack the cryptography that today is the bedrock of data security. Adversaries are harvesting encrypted data with an eye toward breaking them as soon as the quantum capability is available. In some sense, the threat is already here.

Government 52

Government Government Inventory End to End 52

FedScoop

APRIL 8, 2024

These use cases have not yet been listed on the agency’s public AI inventory, which agencies are required to produce annually by an executive order. Department staff are also instructed to limit the sharing and saving of data on these systems and to check the output of large language models for accuracy.

Demand 111

Demand Inventory Data Contract 111

GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

From Denali in Alaska to Saguaro in Arizona, volunteers collect data, upload it and share in the scientific achievement. The citizen scientists’ contributions are part of a larger project called the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, which began in 1998 and is coordinated by the nonprofit Discover Life in America (DLiA).

Inventory 52

Inventory Data Sustainability Participation 52

FedScoop

JULY 19, 2024

Power also pointed to initiatives meant to increase transparency into ways new technological platforms and data are used, while also raising awareness about the way these systems could manipulate people. At the same time, Coleman warned that the technology could exacerbate inequality between the Global North and Global South.

Inventory 112

Inventory Capacity Transparency Leadership 112

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. Because there’s just so many layers to state and local and federal government and how they share their data.

Inventory 61

Inventory Quality Budget Data 61

AWS Public Sector

APRIL 15, 2024

These processes rely heavily on domain-specific data ingestion and processing for batch and continuous data sources. PNNL developed Aether as a reusable framework for sharing data and analytics with sponsors and stakeholders. Lambda functions are at the core of the computational workload.

Risk Management 113

Risk Management Management End to End Data 113

FedScoop

DECEMBER 15, 2023

“NSF is exploring options for safely implementing GAI technologies within NSF’s data ecosystem,” an agency spokesperson told FedScoop. When approved, they will be published on NSF’s public inventory of AI applications.” If you’re using generative AI, then that generative AI has used data from somewhere else,” Baru said.

Inventory 90

Inventory Data Evaluation Integration 90

FedScoop

JUNE 28, 2024

With a dense artificial intelligence inventory and more use cases on the way, the State Department has embraced AI to a greater degree than many of its federal counterparts. AI provides State with “the ability to process just so much more data,” Graviss said. Speaking Friday in Washington, D.C.,

Inventory 106

Inventory Media Integration Integrity 106

FedScoop

MAY 10, 2024

NSF lists several use cases on its public inventory, and Aronson said the agency has developed smaller AI solutions before, such as a tool that suggests reviewers for people who work with NSF on research. The first three months of the pilot are wrapping up, marking the end of the development phase, according to an NSF spokesperson.

Inventory 117

Inventory Import Education Data 117

Great Government Through Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The problem Here’s the catch: quantum computers could also break many of the encryption algorithms we currently rely on to protect sensitive data. Importantly, OMB said agencies should prepare to protect their data from quantum computers trying to break their encryption. It’s mind-boggling!

IT 40

IT Inventory Supplier Data 40

ivalua

APRIL 9, 2021

However, the research reveals that many organisations feel their procurement strategies are being hampered by outdated technology: Organisations believe that overly dispersed (72%), unactionable data (70%), and a lack of embedded best practices (70%) are limiting overall value from technology solutions.

Procurement Strategies 52

Procurement Strategies Supply Chain Procurement Inventory 52

GovLoop

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Start With an Inventory. That means taking stock not just of systems and data stores, but of those accessing those resources. In support of a zero-trust approach to security, that model in turn should be tailored so that individuals have access only to the systems they need to do their jobs and the data they are entitled to see. “It

Government 98

Government Government Inventory Import 98

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

To address this, they collaborated with AWS to fine-tune a base foundation model using the collective data from the platform’s writers, encompassing more than 100,000 sentences. This data was pre-processed to include additional attributes such as the author’s demographics and the genre of the writing in progress.

Data 61

Data Quality Education Inventory 61

GovLoop

OCTOBER 10, 2023

31, 2023, the state’s Department of Administrative Services will conduct an annual inventory of all AI-based systems used by state entities, and each year the department must confirm that none of those systems leads to unfair discrimination or disparate impacts. A new Connecticut law , in particular, zeros in on agency AI dependence.

Inventory 52

Inventory Ethics Transparency Data 52

ivalua

APRIL 8, 2021

Organizations believe that overly dispersed (72%), unactionable data (70%), and a lack of embedded best practices (70%) are limiting overall value from technology solutions . But at many, COVID-19 exposed weaknesses in outdated procurement processes, tools, and data that limited agility and impacted decision-making.”

Procurement Strategies 52

Procurement Strategies Supply Chain Procurement Inventory 52

AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The country has poor internet connectivity in remote places, so the team worked with MOSIP and vendors to engineer special field kits that let enrollment officers travel door-to-door to collect people’s information and then upload the data into the system in batches when they have connectivity.

Government 141

Government Government Innovation Education 141

GovLoop

OCTOBER 4, 2023

During the past three years, Kinnard has developed an AI use case inventory, highlighting 18 ways AI is used in the department. Her team also manages AI platforms, monitoring who uses them and what data flows through them. Models must be trained to make decisions and in what data means in context. Is My AI a Good Person?

Inventory 52

Inventory Ethics Data Education 52

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 4, 2023

“Recognizing that initial reports may not contain complete information, even incomplete early reports provide the government an important opportunity to limit the extent of damage to its systems and data,” the proposal states. DeRusha emphasized how the eight-hour reports won’t necessarily contain “full information” about a cyber incident.

Inventory 98

Inventory Import Government Government 98

FedScoop

MARCH 13, 2024

In 2014, a NASA OIG report found the agency did not, at the time, have an accurate inventory of mobile devices, including tablets. iPads are interesting theft targets because while many devices are stolen for data, iPads are also stolen just for a high resale value. The topic has continued to come up.

Inventory 90

Inventory Accountability Media Management 90

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.

Government 86

Government Government Leadership Participation 86

FedInsider

MAY 24, 2024

It is hard to maintain an accurate inventory that records hundreds of thousands of assets, their relationships and dependencies, or to track their vulnerabilities and spot cybersecurity gaps. And while prioritizing risks and mitigation efforts is essential, the increasingly complex IT landscape makes it ever more difficult.

Participation 69

Participation Inventory Media Management 69

GovLoop

MAY 30, 2023

Here are three areas in which automation can change the equation: Identifying and assessing devices and other IT assets in real time, including all hardware and software on premises, in the cloud and at the edge Correlating that inventory with threat intelligence and other security data to prioritize remediation efforts Testing, deploying and validating (..)

Management 52

Management Networking Inventory Data 52

Great Government Through Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Agencies should begin to plan for future quantum resistant methods by inventorying their systems and engaging with vendors on how they are addressing quantum-readiness. Artificial Intelligence (AI) The rapid emergence and adoption of generative AI tools has created new challenges, especially for data security.

Supply Chain 40

Supply Chain Inventory Risk Management Management 40