FedScoop

MAY 7, 2024

Trade violation allegations about electronic products filed with Customs and Border Protection include references to “child surveillance video” associated with a national security issue and two claims regarding Apple and forced labor, according to a document obtained by FedScoop through a public records request.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Federal agencies typically collect, manage, use, and distribute a wide array of documents. Storing and distributing federal agency documents is often a complicated process; documents can range from structured formats to free-flowing documentation with personal identifiable information (PII) that needs careful redaction.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To better support its clients, Acentra Health implemented an intelligent document processing (IDP) solution using AWS services. In this post, learn how Acentra Health’s IDP solution reduced document processing times by more than 50 percent and lowered document processing costs by 40 percent.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request to unseal documents about her suspension for refusing to participate in an investigation into her fitness, saying they are of "questionable relevance" and will be released soon anyway. The Federal Circuit judges asked the D.C. Circuit on Thursday to reject U.S.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Multiple sources confirmed law enforcement agencies closed down the building and removed computers and boxes of documents. Justice says Carahsoft produced 2,650 documents, which “represented only a small fraction of the documents that Carahsoft has confirmed that it has in its possession, custody or control.”

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FedScoop

JULY 8, 2024

Securing federal funding for artificial intelligence research and establishing an executive task force to monitor the development and use of AI should be prioritized in the first year of the next presidential term, a new policy document from MITRE recommended.

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FedScoop

JULY 24, 2024

TikTok, WeChat, Grammarly, and Microsoft Yammer are just some of the tools that NASA employees are barred from using on agency devices, according to a document obtained by FedScoop that provides insight into software denials on the space agency’s networks. Here’s a link to the document in full.

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FedScoop

APRIL 8, 2024

Current AI tech sprints within the agency related to ambient dictation for clinical encounters and community care document processing also involve generative AI. You can read that document here. There are other generative AI projects, too.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 23, 2024

“This RFI seeks to enhance ARPA-H’s understanding of the Agentic AI landscape to aid ARPA-H in setting strategic direction for its research and development initiatives leveraging Agentic AI to improve health outcomes,” the document posted to SAM.gov said. The posting comes as buzz around agentic AI builds.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Access to key documentation is both a struggle and a necessity for vulnerable and at-risk communities. For the unhoused, being ‘document ready’ is essential to avoid delays or denial of access to benefits and services they need. Without proper documentation, unhoused individuals face overwhelming barriers to stability and opportunity.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In a press release from the General Services Administration announcing the investments, federal CIO Clare Martorana said the “SSA has been burdened by paper processes for too long, impacting their ability to upload documents, adjudicate claims online, and communicate digitally with their customers. SSA, meanwhile, is the recipient of $30.4

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 14, 2024

The policies prioritize ethical standards, privacy and innovation through documents that concisely lay out the government’s positions on regulating and using AI in its executive operations.

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FedScoop

MARCH 22, 2024

The metrics reflect a broader surge in complaints about the agency that were assembled from PDFs into data files by the Data Liberation Project , which recently digitized documents related to traveler complaints uploaded by the TSA to its online repository of Freedom of Information Act documents. “The

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SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In reviewing the certification request, SBA observed the following red flags that led SBA to request further documentation to establish control by the service-disabled veteran owner (SDV): The business address was the address of its minority owner, about 100 miles away from the SDV’s address. 128.302(d).

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FedScoop

APRIL 18, 2024

The report comes as the committee and its Subcommittee on Modernization have focused on AI strategy and implementation in the House, and is the fifth such document it has put out since September 2023. A footnote in the document discloses that “early drafts of this document were written by humans.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 4, 2024

After the document is officially published Friday, the CDO Council will accept comments for roughly a month. The RFI asks the public for comments on how to define synthetic data generation, in addition to potential applications, challenges, and ethics of the technology.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 3, 2024

million to start automating document intake and exploring the creation of an “integrated address change system that shares information across key [DHS] agencies.” Right now, EOIR relies on manual processes for “critical tasks,” like document intake and physical address changes. DOJ will use $1.34 Efficiency fuels innovation.”

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FedScoop

JULY 25, 2024

“TIGTA’s Office of Investigations review of IRS CSP baseline requirements determined that they omit critical investigative audit trail data elements listed in its Audit Trail Needs document.” The post Tax watchdog says IRS has work to do on Login.gov security controls appeared first on FedScoop.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

While it aligns with Liberia’s approach, the Model Law places greater emphasis on transparency, the documentation of justification for using restricted bidding, and minimizing disruptions to competition. Solicitation tools typically take the form of standard bidding documents tailored to specific procurement needs.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In the pre-GPT era of artificial intelligence, there wasn’t a ton for the National Archives and Records Administration — and its billions of unstructured documents — to do with the technology. We’re just trying all of it all at once, because we just want to know … what works best for our mission,” Shakir said.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A decade after releasing its landmark national cybersecurity framework, the National Institute of Standards and Technology on Monday released version 2.0 , an updated document that emphasizes governance and supply chain issues for both public and private sector entities.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The contract document continues: “This BPA has the capability to address all mission-critical requirements for each Bureau, thereby replacing the many diverse contract vehicles across Treasury and eliminating the multiple types of service contracts.” Treasury did not share the value of the contract in the draft documents.

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FedScoop

APRIL 22, 2024

Documenting the results of communications between federal agencies and OMB would increase the likelihood that agency budgets are sufficient to implement these recommendations.” A new version of the category list and a companion document with clearer explanations is forthcoming, the official added.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

Among the major goals listed in the document are recruiting, developing and retaining a talented and diverse workforce across the entirety of the IC. There is strength in diversity; that’s one of the messages delivered in the 2023 National Intelligence Strategy, which provides strategic guidance to the U.S. intelligence community.

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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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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Agencies face an uphill battle to scan, convert, tag and secure documents ahead of the National Archives and Records Administration’s deadline for digitizing permanent government records in June.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

government in 2021, according to documents viewed by WSJ. SpaceX has developed into a major contractor supporting U.S. military and intelligence agencies, demonstrating the need of national security organizations for commercial partners that could quickly develop and launch classified satellites. billion classified contract from the U.S.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The agency said it did not comment on documents obtained through public records requests. After FedScoop pointed out that the use case has been discussed publicly and in other public documents, the agency again said it declined to comment.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Now, the Pentagon is preparing its second version of the document known as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0, That’s the thinking behind a lengthy compliance standard the Department of Defense introduced four years ago to ensure that data and meaningful information weren’t slipping into the hands of adversaries.

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GovLoop

APRIL 8, 2024

“I’m especially excited about the ability to ask generative AI to answer a question based only on a limited set of documents,” Noveck said. You can feed it with … all the policy documents relating to service X or all the directions relating to how to apply it to service Y, and [it will] provide answers based only on that information.” “The

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is pushing forward on its oversight of federal post-quantum cryptography migration, unveiling a strategy document last week that details how the agency intends to monitor and assess governmentwide progress on the transition.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This fleet is supposed to help the agency document transportation accidents — which the NTSB is charged with investigating — including capturing videography and photography of accidents and conducting mapping and photogrammetry. The NTSB’s drone program, while small, is growing.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 19, 2024

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday that the FMS has an estimated cost of $143 million and includes the aircraft themselves, various parts, technical documentation, training equipment and logistics and program support, such as personnel training, technical and engineering services and transportation. Department of State.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 29, 2024

The ECCRS contract will help the EPA Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center implement alternative dispute resolution techniques to prevent and resolve disputes with internal and external parties, according to solicitation documents. The contractor […]

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GovCon & Trade

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A “company applicant” is either of the following: In the case of a domestic reporting company, the individual who filed the documents needed to create the entity. In the case of a foreign reporting company, the individual filing the documents when it first registered as a foreign reporting company to do business in a state.

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FedScoop

MARCH 1, 2024

The spokesperson said the report will include “enhancements to acquisition processing procedures that ensure that compliance with all applicable laws is precisely documented.” As a result of this audit, GSA has put in place new processes and improved documentation requirements,” Shive said.

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FedScoop

APRIL 29, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a new program to evaluate generative AI and released several draft documents on the use of the technology Monday, as the government hit a milestone on President Joe Biden’s AI executive order. According to the release, that will “help inform the work of the U.S.

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