The Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Cemetery Administration will improve its Veterans Legacy Memorial online platform to speed up responses to veterans’ pre-need eligibility determination requests for burial in a VA national cemetery. While the NCA has already reduced the time needed for answering such requests to a few days, Matthew Quinn, VA undersecretary for […]
The Department of the Treasury has recovered over $375 million after it embraced an artificial intelligence-powered fraud detection process in late 2022. The decision to incorporate AI into Treasury operations comes with a growing number of check fraud cases. The department shared that suspicious activity related to check fraud nearly doubled between 2021 and 2022, […]
ICF has secured two contract option-year extensions from the Department of Health and Human Services worth a total of $50 million to modernize systems for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. For the first contract extension, ICF will transition the CMS Quality Improvement and Evaluation System into the cloud-based Internet Quality Improvement System. The cloud […]
Guy Cavallo, chief information officer at the Office of Personnel Management, said that Microsoft’s Azure cloud-native cybersecurity platform helped the agency protect sensitive data it handles from malicious actors. In a recent interview, Cavallo said the agency opted for cloud-based cybersecurity because it offered the perfect place to store a significant amount of data with […]
The U.S. Naval Warfare Information Systems Command has launched a new offering designed to speed up application creation and improve automation. The OneNAVWAR Digital Innovation Nexus is built on the Microsoft Power Platform suite of business development tools and supports the next generation of the Navy Information Superiority Vision. The offering is designed to provide […]
Reston, Virginia-based Carahsoft Technology has announced that it will serve as a public sector distributor for artificial intelligence and data analytics software maker SAS. All 15 executive departments of the federal government and all 50 states use SAS products, Carahsoft said. The distribution agreement is expected to simplify the acquisition of solutions such as SAS […]
Artificial intelligence software company Torch .AI has unveiled Nexus, an off-the-shelf data infrastructure solution to enable federal agencies to rapidly and autonomously process unstructured and multimodal data. Nexus will reduce the $143 billion spent annually on information collection, including over $37.8 billion in manual data processing costs, Torch .AI said Thursday. The company announced multiple […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs said 40 artificial intelligence use cases are in an operational phase within the agency to ensure that customers receive optimal health care benefits. Speaking before the House VA Committee on Feb. 15, Charles Worthington, the department’s chief technology officer, said AI can help VA employees provide better health care and […]
Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., said he is concerned over the potential security threats from artificial general intelligence, a theoretical form of artificial intelligence that could rival human abilities. In an interview with FedScoop, Foster, a particle physicist before his election to the House of Representatives in 2007, said that potential pitfalls associated with artificial general […]
Salesforce’s customer relationship management solutions are now available for purchase through the AWS Marketplace, made possible through a partnership with Carahsoft, a member of the Amazon Web Services Public Sector Partner program. The CRM solutions include hyperautomation platform MuleSoft, analytics and business intelligence platform Tableau and Salesforce Customer 360, a suite of business solutions running […]
