FedScoop

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The General Services Administration is not fully compliant with a key piece of the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act that governs processes related to geospatial data, a new watchdog report found. Notwithstanding these corrective actions, we identified deficiencies in GSA’s compliance with the” Geospatial Data Act.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 1, 2024

Atlanta and New York City and co-sponsored by Microsoft and OpenAI, was part of the agency’s efforts to get the federal government to open up authoritative data and set it up for usability, GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan told reporters in D.C. Protecting data and privacy were top priorities, Shive said. “We

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FedScoop

APRIL 24, 2024

As chief data officer for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Preston Werntz has made it his business to understand bias in the datasets that fuel artificial intelligence systems. With a dozen AI use cases listed in CISA’s inventory and more on the way, one especially conspicuous data-related realization has set in.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 14, 2024

Few agency workers across the federal government are more closely and publicly associated with their area of expertise than Ted Kaouk is with data. So hopefully it gives a sense of the volume of data that we’re managing.” That data, Kaouk said, is what helps the CFTC oversee market participants. derivatives markets. “So

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GovLoop

MAY 8, 2023

Throughout the day, each of us makes decisions based on available data. Think about all the precise, real-time data the U.S. The challenging thing about data [is] it grows exponentially,” said Scott Woestman Vice President of Sales, U.S. “The Public Sector, with Alation, a data intelligence firm.

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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.

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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. 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.”

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 10, 2024

In this post, we discuss how Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help you successfully set up an Amazon DataZone domain, aggregate data from multiple sources into a single centralized environment, and perform analytics on that data. Amazon DataZone enables you to distribute the ownership of data, creating a data mesh.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alalasundaram pointed specifically to Google’s Vertex AI system, which allows CBP staffers to “search across disparate data sources” and integrate that data into one entity. For border patrol agents serving in especially remote locations, getting that data to them quickly has “always been somewhat of a challenge,” according to James.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Agencies have already begun some of the work needed to prepare for the changes, including inventorying their systems for cryptography and estimating the funding needed to migrate to post-quantum standards, but more work is still ahead. The process of inventorying is part of that work. But where do we store the high-value data?

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Take Inventory. This concept of inventory has existed for decades from an IT perspective,” said Lester Godsey, Chief Information Security Officer for Maricopa County, Ariz. But the definition of what an asset is needs to expand to include: Data Cloud providers The companies cloud providers depend on. “How Godsey said.

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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.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In fact, OMB is expected to release an updated governmentwide inventory of AI uses cases on or around Dec. The 2023 inventory showed there were more than 700 AI use cases, but the expectation is that number could easily double or triple given the excitement around generative AI and expanded use of predictive AI.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Shakir pointed specifically to an AI-based semantic search pilot at NARA that, according to the agency’s use case inventory , “aims to enhance the search functionality of its vast catalog” by leveraging technology that “goes beyond keyword matching, understanding the user’s intent and the contextual meaning behind their search terms.”

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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

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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.

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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.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Additionally, the contractor would be responsible for supporting the VA’s current AI use case intake, inventory and review processes. “AI The contractor ultimately chosen by the agency would be in charge of developing and operating a “comprehensive, robust AI governance process and program at VA,” according to the request.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Kaeli Yuen, the data and AI product lead in the VA’s OCTO, said in an interview with FedScoop that the two pilots use generative AI interfaces to assist with administrative tasks, such as summarizing documents, writing emails, drafting talking points and helping write performance reviews. . …

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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

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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.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The “Threat Intake Processing System (TIPS) database uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to accurately identify, prioritize, and process actionable tips in a timely manner,” one undated version of the Justice Department’s AI inventory states.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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ivalua

JANUARY 24, 2022

How do Chief Procurement Officers and their teams leverage digital transformation to take control of their data and better deliver against their strategic objectives? . Johan, can you give us a bit of background on the digital transformation journey at Booz Allen and the role of data? What role did data play on a day-to-day basis?

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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. or DCAT-US 3.0. The significance of the 3.0

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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.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 29, 2024

While the GAO was able to identify and analyze vendors based on government spend, it was “unclear which products under those licenses are most widely used because of agencies’ inconsistent and incomplete data,” the report noted. There should be more concerted efforts to compare prices, the GAO stated.

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

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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.

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