Artificial Intelligence

Robust Intelligence, creator of the AI Risk Database, worked with Mitre to develop and launch an open-source version of the free online tool on GitHub. Mitre said Wednesday the update aims to make it easier for organizations to assess the supply chain risks of artificial intelligence models that are available to the public. The partnership […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton has marked the first founding anniversary of its corporate venture capital arm focused on developing and deploying emerging technologies for defense and national security applications. Since its launch in 2022, Booz Allen Ventures has expanded its portfolio to six start-ups spanning artificial intelligence, machine learning, edge computing deep technology and cybersecurity sectors, […] More

Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ government business, warned that financial cybercrimes exploiting artificial intelligence are not imminent but already taking place, CNBC News reported Wednesday. He noted that a new task force created by the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General to study AI is lagging behind criminal acts targeting government […] More

Watsonx.ai, a geospatial foundation model IBM built from NASA’s satellite data, was made available on open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face in an effort to expand use of the space agency’s Earth science data for geospatial intelligence and advance climate-related innovation. Sriram Raghavan, vice president of IBM Research AI, said in a statement published Thursday, […] More

Mitre has developed an artificial intelligence-driven toolset to accelerate disability evaluation and determination processes for at-risk service members and veterans. The Medical Evaluation Readiness Information Toolset was created as part of a Mitre study for the Defense Health Agency to examine how existing health data sources could be used to help predict referral to the […] More

Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI have established an industry body that seeks to advance responsible and safe development of frontier artificial intelligence models. The Frontier Model Forum has four core objectives and these are identifying best practices; advancing AI safety research; sharing knowledge with policymakers, civil society, companies and academics about trust and safety risks; […] More

Microsoft has received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer its cloud-based generative artificial intelligence service offering to federal agencies. The Azure OpenAI Service secured the FedRAMP authorization after meeting the security requirements for handling government data and related workloads through the program’s rigorous assessment process, Sachin Sinha, director of technology […] More

An Air Force Research Laboratory accelerator program has chosen six companies to participate in its twelfth program, which will focus on the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in space and maritime applications.  Catalyst Accelerator‘s AML cohort, which will take effect from Aug. 22 to Nov. 17, marks the first such cohort betweeen the […] More

CGI plans to invest approximately $757.9 million in efforts to further advance the development of artificial intelligence platforms and services over the next three years. The company said Monday the planned investment includes the expansion of AI-related consulting services, employee recruitment and training, intellectual property AI-enablement and ethical-use delivery platforms and accelerators. “As the next […] More

Aeyon Chief Transformation Officer Mark Hogenmiller said government agencies and corporations are seeing the emergence of the Social, Artificial Intelligence, Governance and Environmental framework, which calls for agency and industry leaders to collaborate to develop, understand and implement standards to advance the ethical use of AI. “By incorporating the SAGE Framework, we can accelerate the […] More

The Biden-Harris administration has received voluntary commitments from seven major artificial intelligence companies to collaborate to ensure that AI development is safe, secure and transparent. Participating companies – Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and Open AI – will follow three major objectives to align their AI systems with standards set by the White House, the administration […] More

Rob Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions, said he considers the potential of generative artificial intelligence as “virtually unlimited,” Nextgov/FCW reported Wednesday. “The only limiting factor may be the data you give it access to,” added Carey, former principal deputy chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a previous Wash100 awardee. Carey said […] More