The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is looking to support its acquisition personnel in 2024 and beyond. Christine Harada, senior adviser at OFPP, said the White House wants to ensure that agencies’ acquisition staff are sufficiently trained and supported, Federal News Network reported Monday. Harada told Federal News Network in an interview that supporting such […]
The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse is looking for companies that can deliver a scalable data sharing platform to support neuroscience research efforts such as Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development, an ongoing large-scale study tracking youths as they age over a 10-year period. The ABCD study requires a platform to facilitate in […]
The National Institutes of Health will work with the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation in 2024 to advance the NIH’s artificial intelligence efforts. According to Susan Gregurick, associate director for data science at the NIH, the three agencies will launch the National AI Research Resource steering committee, which will provide data sets […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has selected Decision Lens to provide a continuous, automated solution as a replacement for its manual, forms-based surveys. The new system is designed for role-specific surveys and fosters enterprise decision management with more time available for data analysis and real-time delivery of outputs, Decision Lens disclosed. […]
Artificial intelligence will soon be part of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Natasha Krell, an NGA computer vision, machine learning, research and development scientist, said the agency is treating AI as a tool that would help people excel in their jobs. She compared it to a word processor with a user needing to input data into […]
The U.S. Army has postponed the launch of the Army Training Information System indefinitely after a deployment readiness review. Spokesperson Ellyn Kocher said delaying the rollout of the service branch’s new online training platform would give it more time to migrate legacy training records from the existing Army Learning Management System, Military .com reported. The […]
Cybersecurity solutions provider Tenable has announced that the Tenable Cloud Security for U.S. Government-Ermetic was granted a “Ready” designation at the moderate impact level from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Tenable Cloud Security is a cloud-native application protection platform that maps cloud assets and platforms, assesses and identifies potential threats to business operations […]
The Department of Labor has announced a new program to improve unemployment insurance systems. According to the Labor Department, the OpenUI Initiative aims to allow states to use modular unemployment insurance technologies developed by other organizations or make their solutions available to other states. The goal is to change states’ approach to UI systems procurement, […]
Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals could test facial recognition technology throughout 2024 as a potential alternative to using personal identity verification cards to sign into the network. VA Chief Information Officer Lynette Sherrill said in November that the pilot program is meant to provide a frictionless authentication process for clinicians, including those in intensive care […]
The Indian Health Service’s new electronic health care record system will be launched in 2025 to replace its current Resource and Patient Management System, which is more than 40 years old. According to GovCIO, the RPMS is the Department of Health and Human Services’ oldest legacy system. The planned 2025 launch was announced during the […]
