Nov 30, 2024 · The first thing you’ll notice about the 2024 iteration of FedTech magazine’s influencer list is the emergence of chief artificial intelligence officers, who are spearheading chatbot, generative AI and large language model efforts within the federal government.. Some agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services, were quick to follow industry in appointing a CAIO to boost ...

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Listen in on a conversation among federal IT leaders, and it won’t be long before artificial intelligence, with all its promise and challenges, comes up.Such discussions, in fact, are now mandatory: Last October, the White House issued an executive order on the federal government’s role in the development and use of AI.. A few months later, …

It wasn’t too long ago that developing software, especially in the federal government, meant writing code and sending it downstream — with many intermediary steps — to users.

Microsoft Federal CTO Jason Payne has worked for Microsoft for roughly eight years. In that time, he has seen a great deal of innovation in the Microsoft Teams platform and how federal agencies use it to conduct on-premises, hybrid and remote meetings.Payne always has focused on government transformation, but now he’s assisting federal agencies with implementing artificial intelligence in ...

With the most recent Federal Information Security Modernization Act report cataloging 11 major incidents among government agencies in fiscal 2023, there is a clear need to continue improving overall cybersecurity. A key component is the federal identity credential and access management program created in 2009. FICAM supports modernized security …

Generative AI, chatbots, large language models and machine learning have taken the world by storm. The federal government is no exception. As chief artificial intelligence officers take the helm to advance the many AI/ML initiatives now taking shape in every agency, new ideas and innovation — which only two or three years ago wouldn’t have seemed possible — are more welcome than ever.

Feature. Welcome to the Multicloud. The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract vehicle drives competition for Defense cloud services. As vendors tailor offerings to meet agency needs, multiple migration efforts advance modernization.

Brief Byte. AI in Action. A recent influx of TMF cash is allowing the State Department to deploy generative AI and develop a government playbook for its responsible use.

RFID Is Rising to the Top of Location Tracking Options. As agencies consider the best ways to track assets, some are looking at vision systems.However, cameras — like barcode scanners — require the item to be in plain sight, and that’s not always possible.