Artificial Intelligence

You can’t afford to keep reinventing the wheel every time there’s a new vulnerability. It’s time to understand what’s in the software and AI we build and buy.

As AI becomes more widespread across government agencies, utilization must shift from general adoption to smart, intentional uses.

GSA is nearly halfway to its goal, and began this work internally. But its deputy administrator said the project could expand outside GSA if deemed successful.

“Privacy is about your ability to control what information you are making available to whom for what reason,” Bethanne Barnes said.

“This accelerator is larger than Task Force Sabre, it’s part of the official organization. We’re building it out as we speak,” Maj. Gen. Robert Kinney said.

Michael Thomas, director of ISOO, says AI poses plenty of challenges, but could also address longstanding challenges with controlled unclassified information.

Brenda Crist and Beth Wingate of Lohfeld Consulting offer seven considerations for vendors as they prepare bids to successfully navigate AI reviews.

Hemant Baidwan, the former CISO at DHS and now executive CISO at Knox Systems, said his former agency is doing better to stay ahead of cyber threats.

“The tendency is to continue to do things the way we did before because that’s how law, policy and culture are aligned in agencies,” said Dan Chenok.

“The focus is on helping the applicant get to ‘yes’ by making sure the proposal complies with the law, allows for reasonable development,” Jay Townsend said.

Visibility changes the equation, paving the way to strengthen cyber resilience and systematically address the vulnerability backlog in government.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to block the Pentagon from blacklisting artificial intelligence company Anthropic.

“We collected over 400 ideas for regulations that need change from our small businesses, and we’ve been teeing those up to agencies,” said Chip Bishop.

“Congressional investigations should be viewed not only as a legal issue, but as a strategic and reputational risk management challenge,” Amanda Robinson said.

“This is not the first time that this type of crowdsourcing has ultimately come about through release of federal data sets,” John Barry said.