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Google Cloud to Train Treasury Workforce on Generative AI, Cybersecurity & Data Analytics

Google Cloud will offer its new courses and certifications in generative artificial intelligence, data analytics and cybersecurity to the Department of the Treasury's current and future workforce. Karen Dahut, CEO of Google Public Sector and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, said in a blog post published Tuesday that the company's partnership with the Treasury is part of the latter's efforts to drive a skills-based approach to talent acquisition and expand the federal government's access to a broader technology talent pool.

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by Naomi Cooper April 16, 2024, 11:31 am
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BAE Systems Inc. Partners With Ansys for DOD Engineering Modernization Effort

BAE Systems Inc. has partnered with simulation software developer Ansys to streamline the adoption of digital engineering and model-based systems engineering approaches for security and defense applications within the Department of Defense. Ansys said Tuesday it will assist the customers of BAE in phasing out manual processes and implementing simulation methods and data management for DOD programs through the latter's Mission Advantage technology partnership program.

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by Kacey Roberts April 11, 2024, 11:27 am
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Salesforce Announces AI-Powered Software Platform for Government Customers

Salesforce has unveiled Public Sector Einstein 1 for Service, a software platform that hosts various artificial intelligence-powered capabilities that work to automate administrative tasks. Salesforce said Wednesday that the new product is based on its Einstein 1 platform and is meant for use by government workers.

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by Jerry Petersen April 11, 2024, 10:38 am
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SMX Elevate ISR Platform Adds Torchlight AI Capabilities

SMX and Torchlight AI have partnered to equip the former's operational, service-based commercial offering with the latter's behavior based intelligence platform to boost client mission support. Through the addition of the Torchlight AI platform, the SMX Elevate ISR now offers enhanced delivery of analytics, operational insights and contextualized indicators and warnings in support of customer efforts to identify emerging threats, SMX said Tuesday.

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by Christine Thropp April 10, 2024, 10:55 am
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3 Key Pillars of Successful AI Systems with Digital Science’s Stephen Leicht

As the federal government embraces artificial intelligence, its leaders are working to build better, more trustworthy and more reliable AI tools and technologies. Digital Science President Stephen Leicht told Executive Mosaic in a new video interview that successful AI systems rely upon three key components: data, technology and people.

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by Summer Myatt April 9, 2024, 11:20 am
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Carahsoft to Serve as Public Sector Distributor for Trellis Data’s Speech-to-Text Services; Michael Adams Quoted

Carahsoft Technology has closed an agreement with Australian artificial intelligence firm Trellis Data to distribute the latter’s Secure Chat suite to government agencies. Michael Adams, sales director at Carahsoft, said Thursday the company is “pleased to add Trellis Data’s Secure Chat and Speech solutions to Carahsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning portfolio.”

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by Kacey Roberts April 5, 2024, 11:32 am
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Accenture Federal Services, Google Public Sector to Help Agencies Advance AI Adoption via New Center of Excellence

Accenture Federal Services and Google Public Sector have unveiled a new center of excellence that seeks to help federal agencies improve citizen experience while managing sensitive and classified workloads using data management platforms and generative artificial intelligence technologies. The Data and AI Center of Excellence will provide agency clients with access to Google Cloud's AI-based code generation tools, Vertex AI platform, language models, specialized data and AI experts and AI-optimized infrastructure, the companies said in a joint release published Thursday.

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by Jane Edwards April 5, 2024, 11:12 am
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Report: Microsoft, OpenAI Eye 2028 Launch of Stargate AI Supercomputer

Microsoft and OpenAI are planning to launch an artificial intelligence supercomputer called Stargate by 2028 as part of a potential $100 billion data center project. According to a report by The Information cited by Reuters, the two technology companies will carry out the data center project in five phases with Stargate as the last phase.

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by Jane Edwards April 2, 2024, 10:46 am
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C3 AI & Paradyme Enhance Partnership on Delivery of AI Capabilities to US Intelligence Customers

C3 AI has announced an enhanced partnership agreement with Paradyme to hasten the delivery of artificial intelligence offerings to the U.S. intelligence community. The enterprise AI application software company said Thursday it started working with the technology solutions provider in 2021 and that they have delivered AI-powered applications to federal agencies since.

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by Aidan Daly March 28, 2024, 11:54 am
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Experts Expound on Efficiency Benefits of AI

Government technologists are cultivating a cautiously optimistic view on AI, enticed by its many applications while attempting to institute checks and balances so that the tools do not overstep or malfunction. “AI will revolutionize humanity…but like anything, you don't go blindly running into it. You run towards, hopefully aware of some of the pitfalls and the challenges,” said Stephen Wallace, chief technology officer at the Defense Information Systems Agency on a panel at the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual AI Summit.

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by Charles Lyons-Burt March 27, 2024, 11:37 am
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AutogenAI’s Elizabeth Lukas: AI to Level Playing Field, Enhance Competitiveness in GovCon

Elizabeth Lukas of artificial intelligence company AutogenAI sees a growing expectation in the broader industry that companies should respond quickly to procurement opportunities, an expectation that, Lukas believes, will spread into the government contracting space. Adopting AI would allow contractors to meet this expectation because the technology enables organizations to respond to more bids within timeframes that are likely to become shorter and tighter, the CEO of AutogenAI's Americas business says in an opinion column published Monday.

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by Jerry Petersen March 26, 2024, 11:02 am
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Accenture to Contribute Accelerators, Support Personnel for Partnership With Anthropic, AWS on Responsible AI Deployment

Accenture has entered into a partnership with Amazon Web Services and artificial intelligence company Anthropic with the aim of providing organizations with the ability to adopt and scale generative AI technology in a responsible manner. Accenture said Wednesday that, under the partnership, it will provide customers with services and accelerators — like a new generative AI switchboard — that will make it possible to customize AI models for specific needs.

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by Jerry Petersen March 22, 2024, 9:12 am