The Office of Personnel Management has issued the Workforce of the Future Playbook to synchronize the Biden administration’s workforce policies, enabling federal agencies’ revitalization of recruitment processes and retention of talented government employees. The new guidelines expand on the agency’s Strategic Plan defining President Joe Biden’s vision for the federal government’s workforce. The guidebook revolves […]
The Department of Justice has appointed Jonathan Mayer, an assistant professor at Princeton University’s Department of Computer Science and School of Public and International Affairs, as the agency’s first chief science and technology adviser and chief artificial intelligence officer. In his dual leadership role, Mayer will advise the attorney general and the DOJ’s leadership on […]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is scheduled to start in early 2024 a research project on the use of atomic layer deposition for manufacturing microchips using a process that consumes 50 times less energy than current chips. According to Argonne, the research, which is set for two and a half years, has […]
Arizona State University has received a $13.8 million cooperative agreement from the Department of State’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs to improve semiconductor assembly, testing and packaging capabilities in partner countries in the Americas and the Indo-Pacific regions. Awarded under the International Technology Security and Innovation Fund, the educational institution will lead efforts to […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking for customer experience, procurement and digital service delivery experts to address ease-of-use challenges. Interested parties have until March 4 to apply to the Digital Service Fellows Program, which is limited to 500 prospects, Nextgov/FCW reported. The USDA plans to hire between 5 and 20 applicants, who will be […]
The Office of Personnel Management has announced that it will soon complete a competency model for hiring artificial intelligence personnel. In a memo issued on Monday, OPM disclosed that it issued an AI job analysis survey to gain a better grasp of the topic while working on an AI work competency model to attract, recruit […]
The Department of Commerce has signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms with the New York-based multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing company GlobalFoundries to strengthen the United States’ domestic semiconductor supply chain resilience. Under the PMT, the department will grant GlobalFoundries approximately $1.5 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to support a […]
The Federal Trade Commission has vowed to pursue artificial intelligence companies that secretly change their privacy policies to harvest user data. The FTC’s privacy and identity protection unit wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that businesses feeding their AI models with large quantities of user data are breaking their privacy commitments, The Record reported. […]
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have recommended prioritizing “respect for persons, beneficence and justice” in training artificial intelligence systems. The recommendation comes as concerns arise over the impact of AI on human lives, including how it can make biased judgments on hiring decisions, loan applications and welfare benefits. Published in the […]
The Office of Management and Budget has announced a new searchable tool that improves government transparency and accessibility for federal funding programs. According to the OMB, the Federal Program Inventory allows the general public, congressional stakeholders, oversight bodies and other interested parties to search through various programs, types of assistance agencies have to offer and […]
