The Department of the Navy is now looking at ship-mounted cloud computing infrastructure for sailors to remain connected in remote, limited-connectivity environments, an official said at an industry event in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday. The Navy’s acting chief information officer, Jane Rathbun, told the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association NOVA Naval IT Day’s attendees […]
Gil Alterovitz, director of the Department of Veterans Affairs National Artificial Intelligence Institute, said on Wednesday that four new AI centers will prioritize iterative testing. The NAII is setting up at VA medical sites in Washington, D.C.; Long Beach, California; Kansas City, Missouri; and Tampa, Florida, FedScoop reported. Speaking at a Fed Gov Today webinar, […]
The Food and Drug Administration has announced a new committee mandated to explore issues related to digital health technologies. The Digital Health Advisory Committee will advise the agency on artificial intelligence and machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, remote patient monitoring, wearable technologies and other products used in the health care sector. The committee will […]
Top U.S. Army officials have unveiled a new smartphone app called My Army Post enabling troops to access and share real-time information in and around their military stations. The Army Future Command’s Army Software Factory came up with the app’s beta version “in just weeks,” Col. Vito Errico, the software factory’s director, told DefenseScoop in […]
Movement health provider Sparta Science announced that it will team up with Palantir Technologies’ FedStart program to deliver artificial intelligence-powered human readiness solutions at Impact Level 5. Such offerings include a data and AI operations platform, machine learning-supported insights and decision support tools, Sparta Science said Monday. FedStart is a software-as-a-service program meant to provide […]
Machine learning-enabled situational awareness solutions provider TurbineOne announced that the Department of Defense has added its Frontline Perception System to Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace. FPS is an artificial intelligence- and ML-enabled threat detector that allows users to build and deploy computer-powered recognition algorithms on the field and in operation centers. The system, which does not require […]
The U.S. Air Force announced that it has acquired an enterprise license for Immersive Wisdom’s software platform for denied, degraded, intermittent and limited-bandwidth environments under a $25 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract. The Boca Raton, Florida-based software developer announced the contract award at the 2023 Association of the United States Army Annual […]
A roundtable discussion between the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and health care, academic, industry, and patient advocacy leaders has listed specific-use cases of artificial intelligence to improve health services delivery. The roundtable participants tackled AI’s risks and benefits, with ideas on the technology’s responsible development discussed as well. The Biden-Harris administration’s […]
Ann Dunkin, the Department of Energy’s chief information officer, said internal operations could transform because of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. The agency and its national laboratories are evaluating potential AI applications based on a use case inventory published earlier in 2023, FedScoop reported Thursday. The DOE is also planning a testing environment for […]
Drexel University said it is participating in a $4 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program to develop algorithms that can imitate decision-making by experienced leaders to support crisis scenarios. The “In the Moment” program is aimed at laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence-based decision-making in medical triage and other complex situations, Drexel said. Parallax […]
