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Pentagon Wants AI to Predict Behavioral Changes in Troops
The Defense Department wants artificial intelligence that can tell when shifts in behavior could have “unwanted negative outcomes” for troops, their units and their missions.
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Sammie Finalists Highlight Outstanding Accomplishments of Federal Employees
Dr. Anthony Fauci is one of 27 career civil servants recognized in the Partnership for Public Service’s prestigious annual awards program.
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3 Ways Technology Meets Empathy to Solve Overwhelmed Agency Phone Lines
Conversational technology can be an excellent way to deflect repetitive questions to AI that can act like a live FAQ around constantly changing information.
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Senator Wants Details on Clearview AI’s Contact Tracing Pitches
Sen. Ed Markey wrote a letter to the controversial startup asking about its plans to use facial recognition technology to track patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Those Facebook 'Challenges' Can Expose You to Hackers
Games can often extract sensitive information about a person, such as their first job, their first car, or their mother’s maiden name.
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Artificial Intelligence Outperforms Human Analysts In This Key Area
An experiment from the Defense Intelligence Agency shows that AI and humans have different risk tolerances when data is scarce.
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NGA Knows Its Challenges, Now It Needs the Tech to Address Them
The world is changing—from commercially available GEOINT to COVID-19—so the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency released a list of tech challenges the agency needs help to overcome.
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Creating an Oversight Toolkit to Ensure the CARES Act Delivers for the American People
Inspectors general across government need modern tools in their fight against fraud.
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The Amazon Lockdown: How an Unforgiving Algorithm Drives Suppliers to Favor the E-Commerce Giant Over Other Retailers
At a time when much of the retail sector is collapsing, Amazon is strengthening its competitive position in ways that could outlast the pandemic — and raise antitrust concerns.
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What Federal IT Modernization Leaders Do Best
Modernization is not about just finding solutions that are more cost-efficient and more secure.
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Defense is Embracing Robotic Process Automation But It’s Not Yet Scaling It
Bot security and varying cloud infrastructure could make it tough for the Pentagon to spread RPA tools.
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The Pentagon Will Use AI to Predict Panic Buying, COVID-19 Hotspots
The prototype can predict trends in supply and demand and infection down to the zip code.
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Critical Update: How the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Plans to Run ‘Better, Cheaper, Faster’ Tech
Chief Information Officer Jamie Holcombe and his team are stabilizing and modernizing IT to help meet growing demands in a changing marketplace.
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DARPA Wants Tech That Can Trick Computer Vision
Neural networks can adapt and learn to identify and classify objects but they can also be stumped by cleverly placed pixels.
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Army Wants to Study How Humans Team With AI—And Vice Versa
A new contract will focus on the teaming aspect of artificial intelligence in warfare by analyzing how humans and machines think when working together.
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Pentagon Needs Tools to Test the Limits of Its Artificial Intelligence Projects
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center seeks cutting-edge evaluation capabilities to assess what systems can and can’t effectively do.
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White House Expands Coronavirus-Focused Supercomputing Consortium
Officials are putting high-performance computing resources to work across the country to help combat COVID-19.
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Summer Space Program Considers Shift to Virtual Version Due to Coronavirus
The SETI Institute is rethinking how to host its competitive summer program for accelerating space research.
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Artificial Intelligence in Action
Federal agencies are laying the groundwork now for how artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation may change their operations in not-so-distant future.
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