The electronics company is part of the military's latest project on determining if it's possible to know if personnel have been infected before they start to show symptoms.

“From the time that the scores come online, what gets measured gets done,” said the manager of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program.

But don't expect decisions on who receives or loses their federal clearance to be made by machines, said the head of the National Background Investigation Service.

The Algorithmic Accountability Act would require that companies using decision-making algorithms study those equations for bias and correct it where found.