How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 10, 2023

Procurement is thus seen as a mechanism of ‘regulation by contract’ whereby the public buyer can impose requirements seeking to achieve broad goals of digital regulation, such as transparency, trustworthiness, or explainability, or to operationalise more general ‘AI ethics’ frameworks.

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University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

New and heightened governance challenges From a governance perspective, ensuring adequate decision-making in procurement digitalisation requires that the potential benefits from the adoption of digital technologies within this feasibility boundary is assessed against new governance risks and requirements for their mitigation.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Approach : Lithuania launched an ambitious public procurement reform in 2021 to reduce the country’s carbon footprint and ensure every public procurement decision considers its environmental impact. The government wanted to shift that to 100% by 2023.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Second, the realignment provides an opportunity to increase transparency for customer agencies and industry partners seeking to do business with FAS. The new structure also can enhance transparency with regard to guidance impacting the MAS program. FAR & Beyond: The FAS Realignment: Opportunities for “Dead Easy!”

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

Required Practices for all Safety- and Rights-Impacting AI Under the risk management requirements of the Memo, before any federal agency can use a safety- or rights-impacting AI, it is required to complete an AI impact assessment. The Memo also does not apply to AI in National Security Systems. race, age, sex, etc.);

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, CAIOs will be able to waive the application of minimum requirements for specific AI uses where, ‘based upon a system-specific risk assessment, [it is shown] that fulfilling the requirement would increase risks to safety or rights overall or would create an unacceptable impediment to critical agency operations‘ (Section 5(c)(iii)).

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Risk Management E-procurement Procurement Evaluation 68

Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 22, 2024

To obtain an environmental license, the investor must obtain approval from the environmental authority of (i) an Environmental Impact Assessment and (ii) an Environmental Management Plan (“PMA”). We do not discuss the tribunal’s jurisdictional reasoning. The ANM further reiterated this in April, August 2017, and December 2019.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 24, 2024

To obtain an environmental license, the investor must obtain approval from the environmental authority of (i) an Environmental Impact Assessment and (ii) an Environmental Management Plan (“PMA”). We do not discuss the tribunal’s jurisdictional reasoning. The ANM further reiterated this in April, August 2017, and December 2019.

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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.

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FedScoop

MARCH 7, 2024

That information, according to the Federal Register posting, is supposed to be filed in the Arrival and Departure Information System, a travel history database that CBP is pushing to expand, according to a privacy impact assessment for the platform. That information, according to the disclosure, is supposed to be shared with U.S.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Michael Sellitto, Anthropic’s head of global affairs, said in an interview with FedScoop that the company wasn’t ready to share the agencies it’s engaged with in conversation, but emphasized that it is interested in expanding the use cases for its technology within civilian federal agencies. This interview was edited for clarity and length.

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