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The FBI is using AI to mine threat tips, but isn’t sharing much detail

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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. Based on the algorithm score, highest priority tips are first in the queue for human review.”

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Congress presses VA on modernization overhaul, supply chain system upgrade

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Without a doubt, the VA and the veterans it serves would benefit from a functional inventory management system, and the department could make better use of taxpayers’ dollars if the system used to order medical supplies were connected to the systems that pay for and track them,” Rosendale said in his opening remarks.

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Army changing the color of money used to modernize software

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“Right now, our systems and our acquisition programs, once they’re done being developed, they go through a process that we call transition to sustainment, meaning they’ve been fully developed and are now going to live in our inventory for 10, 20, 30 years. We’re going to sustain them for a long period of time.

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It’s Time to Rethink Supply Chain Risk Management

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Common Supply Chain strategies, such as just-in-time inventory, exacerbate the impact of shocks. Stockpiling inventory has been the most common response. Has past performance exceeded a threshold? The default destiny, for those that maintain their current course, is supply disruption and the results that accompany it. .

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Government Contracts Cost and Pricing: Introduction to the Federal Acquisition Regulation Cost Principles (Part 1)

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Examples of contract-specific limitations on cost include negotiated dollar value thresholds for compensable changes and caps on rates proposed to make a contractor’s proposal more competitive. 33] The CAS govern the measurement, assignment, and allocation of costs to certain types of Government contracts. Limitations in FAR Subpart 31.2

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The FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act: Key Provisions Government Contractors Should Know

Government Contracts Legal Forum

This provision of the NDAA seems targeted at bridging the communication gap between the agencies by requiring that the parties to a proposed transaction over the HSR threshold provide a copy of their HSR filing directly to DoD.

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Homeland Security employees expressing ‘good interest’ in using public generative AI tools, agency official says

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When one of these tools reaches the threshold of becoming an agency “use case,” it would be added to official DHS inventory, Hysen said. Meanwhile, the agency is still finalizing separate plans for a generative AI pilot, which officials plan to announce in the coming weeks.

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