The National Security Agency is establishing an AI Security Center consolidating the NSA’s security-related artificial intelligence activities, the agency’s director, Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, announced at a National Press Club discussion in Washington on Thursday. Nakasone, also the U.S. Cyber Command’s head and a Wash100 winner, disclosed that the new center will manage the U.S. […]
Amy Henninger, a senior adviser for advanced computing at the Department of Homeland Security, said a newly created artificial intelligence task force is identifying applications that should be prioritized for AI adoption, particularly those related to border security, supply chain security, and fentanyl or synthetic opioid production. The DHS established the task force in April […]
Technology company AiRANACULUS has announced that it received a Defense Threat Reduction Agency contract to create an artificial intelligence-based chemical and biological threat warning system. AiRANACULUS will demonstrate a platform alerting warfighters to possible exposure to chemical and biological threats and prevent them. The company will gather data from existing wearable devices that capture basic […]
Intel is working with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to prepare future scientists and engineers to handle artificial intelligence challenges. Goddard Space Center and Intel are undertaking an academic program aimed at providing science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning sessions such as foundational AI content and opportunities to meet experts, NASA said. The […]
Sens. Steve Daines and Jacky Rosen have introduced a counterpart to a House bill aimed at securing government use of multi-cloud networks. House lawmakers filed the Multi-Cloud Innovation and Advancement Act in August. Both versions of the bill would mandate new guidance on agencies’ cloud usage, a multi-cloud implementation plan and a study on federal […]
Health sector officials said artificial intelligence can support operations and personnel but is riddled with challenges that must be addressed. Sanja Basaric, AI program lead official at the Department of Health and Human Services, said during the Health IT Summit on Sept. 21 that AI can provide natural language processing and computer vision for image […]
U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey, program executive officer for command, control, communications and battle management, said a cloud-based command and control system will attain initial operating capability by the end of fiscal year 2023. Speaking to reporters at the recent Air, Space and Cyber conference, he shared that the service aims to deliver […]
A bill seeking to extend the implementation of the Technology Modernization Fund to 2030 has cleared a markup session of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The Modernizing Government Technology Reform Act of 2023 also proposes reforms to TMF program management and oversight, including requiring project funding suspension or termination when an agency head […]
VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services GovCloud (U.S.) has received an expanded Department of Defense Impact Level 5 provisional authorization to cover the U.S.-East and the U.S.-West regions, the i4i .metal instance type and the Hybrid Cloud Extension solution. IL5 clearance signifies that a cloud environment is secure enough to store and process controlled unclassified […]
The U.S. Army and the Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office said teams from both organizations have made infrastructure improvements that would enhance data replication pipelines between the department and the military branch. According to Army finance data steward Chase Levinson, the service’s Business Mission Area and CDAO worked to integrate pipelines […]
