NIST to establish online center for trustworthy and responsible AI resources

The AI Training for the Acquisition Workforce Act would require acquisition officials involved with AI procurement to receive instruction.

The evolving document will be the basis for additional guidance, standards, measures and tools to help agencies and industry evaluate AI use cases.

Nick Skytland highlights the approach his team takes to procuring sophisticated leading-edge technology and says this is being similarly applied to IT acquisition.

Sammies emerging leader award-winner Krista Kinnard discusses best practices for using technology to streamline back-office processes at federal agencies.

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology say such a fund would boost innovation by supporting chip manufacturers during the most vulnerable stages of company development.

Will Grannis tells FedScoop that projects like a recent agreement between Google and NIST to produce open-source chips will improve cybersecurity by encouraging researchers to become more involved in the hardware design process.

Google will finance an initial production run of the new chips, which will be manufactured by Skywater Technology in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Renee Wegrzyn will be tasked with shaping ARPA-H‘s research portfolio to develop biomedical innovations preventing, detecting and treating diseases including cancer.

The AI-enabled software allows law enforcement to identify opioid traffickers on the dark web.

The intelligence agency expects traditional networking equipment to comply with the new standards by 2030.