Artificial Intelligence

The Department of Veterans Affairs is bolstering its managed services to support digital experiences and solutions.

Automation tools can support decision-making and should complement the workforce.

The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) is calling on lawmakers and the Biden administration to invest billions of dollars in AI systems and innovation to keep the U.S. competitive and protected in the international technological area.

A "whole-of-government" approach in artificial intelligence research is key to ultimately driving innovation across government services and solutions, Rep. Haley Stevens said during AI Gov Thursday.

The pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate medical research has encouraged data sharing and consolidation of practices across federal agencies to lay the groundwork for increasingly sophisticated applications of AI toward diagnostic and health care.

Federal agencies are all looking to ramp up artificial intelligence capabilities, and while it takes the right workforce, data, ethics, governance and development to successfully deploy them, federal officials also highlight the importance of collaboration.

The Defense Department's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is exploring a modernized approach to contracting that accelerates its rate of technological adoption and more efficiently delivers the benefits of AI capacities to the U.S. Armed Forces as a whole.

Hardware security and trust must involve integration of hardware and software protection strategies, as well as resilient build practices, federal IT experts said during a Silicon Flatiron event last week.

Despite potential for pandemic-induced disruptions, the Department of Homeland Security’s IT modernization strategy accelerated in 2020. The agency already moved about 75% of its network traffic to a new enterprise cloud-based network, and it hopes to finish the transition from legacy IT systems to the new network by early spring, said Deputy CIO (and current acting CIO) Beth Cappello.

When U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services CIO Bill McElhaney assumed his position in March 2018, IT offices within each directorate were very siloed across the agency. Repetitive processes and excess IT spending impeded mission delivery speed and inhibited effectiveness and efficiency.

The Department of Health and Human Services released its Artificial Intelligence Strategy Monday after promoting Senior Advisor to the CIO Oki Mek as its chief AI officer.

Federal agencies are exploring new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, 5G and "internet of things" to improve IT mission delivery. But with emerging tech comes new security risks.