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 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. In remarks in June, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said AI has freed up the department to focus on what employees can add.

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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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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. Digital Service.

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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

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. 28, 2023, but the senator never received a response. “At

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IT Data Transparency Inventory 91

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

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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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 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 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.

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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. It has to be done now.”

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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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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. Here’s where quantum computers shine.

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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

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

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. The agency said it did not comment on documents obtained through public records requests.

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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 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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Export Inventory Transportation Transportation 88

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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Inventory Leadership Data Import 95

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

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. As the agency’s first-ever credo on digital democracy, it codifies our intent to counter the rise of digital repression at its source.

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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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FedScoop

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The development of the strategic plan comes after HHS earlier this year reorganized its technology, data, AI and cybersecurity offices, mainly moving portfolios from the Assistant Secretary for Administration to other components. What potential roles does AI play in each of those areas?

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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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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. 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.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 15, 2023

NSF is exploring options for safely implementing GAI technologies within NSF’s data ecosystem,” an agency spokesperson told FedScoop. “NSF 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.

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2024

For instance, DFARS clauses often address technical data rights, while FAR clauses may focus on software and inventions. For instance, DFARS clauses often address technical data rights, while FAR clauses may focus on software and inventions. It’s like taking inventory of your ideas and creations.

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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 chatbot is aimed at making the process of looking for NSF grants easier, Dorothy Aronson, the agency’s chief AI officer told FedScoop.

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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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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

However, as the pathology transformation from glass slides to digital imaging gains momentum, it opens the door to artificial intelligence (AI) tools to complement expert assessment with quantitative measurements to enable data-driven medicine. Already there are several applications for biomarker scoring.

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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., It’s a complement to our work.

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Inventory Media Integration Integrity 108

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 63

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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. Released in 2019, GOV.BR

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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.

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