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Artificial Intelligence

GenAI.mil saw more than 2 million users in one week, top DOD official says

Defense Department Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Cameron Stanley also said that “unilateral disarmament is the wrong approach” when it comes to calls for a slowdown in AI development.

Emerging Tech

When cell service disappears, a rescue beacon developed by NASA can summon help from space

NASA-developed technology, now part of a federal and international satellite search-and-rescue network, can locate people in trouble far beyond the reach of ordinary communications.

Emerging Tech

Flock camera systems receive bipartisan scrutiny from senators

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., criticized makers of automatic license plate readers for relying on agency customers to self-police the systems for instances of wrongdoing.

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Artificial Intelligence

Veterans Affairs previews timeline for enterprise AI services competition

A final solicitation for the potential three-year contract is just around the corner and will task the winner with rolling out artificial intelligence capabilities to 540,000 users.

Emerging Tech

DHS exploring new biosurveillance capabilities as biological threats evolve, officials say

DHS Science and Technology Directorate officials said emerging technologies are forcing the agency to rethink how it detects biological agents.

Digital Government

Login.gov is now accepting mobile driver’s licenses

The feature builds on the federal government’s effort to mandate that agencies use the digital identity verification platform.

Updated Cybersecurity

ShinyHunters claims FBI data theft, demands bureau retract cyber warning

The hacking group says it obtained sensitive employee and applicant records. The full scope of the claimed breach remains unclear.

Policy

Congress — not the president — should appoint the next GAO head, bipartisan coalition argues

The organizations from across the political spectrum contended that former Comptroller General Gene Dodaro’s retirement last year provides an opportunity for lawmakers to overhaul the nomination process.

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Artificial Intelligence

Abridge selected for VA ambient AI enterprise contract

The department plans to expand the technology to select outpatient care providers.

Modernization

Do data centers need a ‘national strategy that puts communities first’?

The House passed a bill to mandate that state regulators have a strategy to have large consumers pay for their own power. But plenty of work lies ahead.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump floats creating an ‘AI Force’

President Donald Trump said the AI Force would be analogous with the Space Force, a military service branch created during his first term to protect U.S. space interests.

Acquisition

DOJ signals interest in piloting AI legal assistant

The pilot would assess whether AI can execute multi-step legal tasks without step-by-step attorney prompting.

Artificial Intelligence

DC-area airports first to deploy AI tool for airspace management

The SMART tool uses AI to crunch 200 different streams of flight data “to predict traffic flows and identify potential conflicts before they occur,” according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Acquisition

FAR Overhaul targets commercial buying and negotiations in newest rewrite

Parts 12 and 15 have revisions ready for industry to read, while two other parts of the Federal Acquisition Regulation are deleted entirely in a push to increase competition.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech bills of the week: Monitoring AI’s use under Section 702; Preventing abuse of Flock plate readers; and more

Lawmakers introduced several measures this week looking to rein in some of the potential abuses and dangers of using AI, as well as a proposal that looks to leverage AI for pediatric cancer research and treatment.

People

NASA employees: EEOC committed ‘flagrant distortions’ to decertify class complaint

EEOC officials touted a long-running discrimination case against NASA as an example why federal sector cases were in need of reform. The employees who brought the case said commissioners railroaded them.

Ideas

FAFSA's turnaround wasn't a miracle. That's the point.

COMMENTARY | Paying for their education should not depend on whether a system failed badly enough to get fixed in the first place.