The Council's vision is to improve government mission achievement and increase benefits to the nation through improving the management, use, protection, dissemination, and generation of data in government decision-making and operations. The CDO Council is publishing this Request for Information (RFI) for the public to provide input on key questions concerning synthetic data generation.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is issuing an Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) Opportunity, inviting submissions of innovative research concepts in the technical domain of modeling and simulation of human-AI teaming. The goal of the Exploratory Models of Human-AI Teams (EMHAT) program is to develop technologies for generating and evaluating diverse and realistic digital twins representing human-AI teams in order to understand and characterize the emergent capabilities and limitations of such teams in proxy operational settings.

The program accelerates the adoption of proven innovative practices and technologies as standard practices to significantly improve: safety, system efficiency, infrastructure health, reliability and performance, and a balanced approach to provide livable/sustainable communities across the Natio

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Date offers due extended to January 12, 2024.

New primary point of contact. Response to questions. Date offers due extended to January 16, 2024.

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Sayari Analytics, LLC is the only known source that has a subscription product that meets all of the specifications required by the SEC, including customizable visualizations of data and ability to provide public records such as driver’s license and court judgements.    

The purpose of this contract is to provide dual access to licensed information content on Clarivate’s Web of Science and on NRL’s TOPREDO platform. Access to Clarivate’s Web of Science’s content allows NRL scientists, and engineers to obtain information essential to the support of NRL’s R&D missions.

GlobalView provides a software package that allows monitoring and analysis of real-time electronic pricing data for refined petroleum products from multiple sources in the Oracle Energy Downstream (OED) format that feeds directly into DLA’s computer systems.

 “We are proud to partner with DOL to investigate suspected ties to forced labor,” said Farley Mesko, Sayari CEO and co-founder. “The level of visibility Sayari enables into complex supply chains at a time of increasing regulatory concern is unparalleled and will empower DOL to deny entities that engage in forced labor access to the U.S. economy.”

Precision3D data enhances situational awareness and decision-making, providing a precise, true representation of Earth that not only reflects the terrain in all dimensions but also provides an accurate foundation for additional data sources through Precision3D Registration (P3DR™) georegistration.

Marine Corps’ new information command needs a common operational picture for digital landscape

“If information is a domain … you have to be able to see it, assess it, measure it, understand it, and where necessary shape and push it,” Maj. Gen. Ryan Heritage, commander of Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace and Marine Corps Forces Space Command, said in a December interview.

AI enforcement in health care: Unpacking the DEA's approach to the opioid epidemic

The AI also uses claims, encounters, pharmacy invoices, beneficiary and provider enrollment files, state licensing board information, property records of targeted health care physicians, ownership/asset and financial filings of targeted health care physicians, and court records, as well as other custom data in its decision-making algorithm.

Automated public-benefit fraud detection used by states subject of new FTC complaint

The software named in the complaint, Thomson Reuters’s “Fraud Detect,” advertises itself as a tool that detects fraud against public benefits, like unemployment insurance and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The complaint alleges the software uses sensitive personal data to power an algorithm that alert benefits administrators of potentially fraudulent activity and contains an “opaque, proprietary algorithm.” EPIC also claimed the adoption of the Thomson Reuters tool by government agencies has led to millions of legitimate claimants going without access to public benefits.

Agencies eye synthetic data to help train and test AI

The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate released a solicitation Dec. 15 for synthetic data solutions that can “generate synthetic data that models and replicates the shape and patterns of real data, while safeguarding privacy.” The technique has the potential to help the department train machine learning models in instances where there is no real-world data available or when using that data would be a privacy, civil rights and liberties or security risk.

Employees need drastic reskilling to deal with generative AI’s data needs

Data analysts are just one part of the picture, observers said. Governments will also need data architects and business analysts, as well as ethicists to help with its responsible use.

California 'AI Accountability Act' would watch state government, urge private regulations

The bill’s language acknowledges the potentially beneficial uses of generative AI and risks in areas such as “democratic and legal processes, biases and equity, public health and safety and the economy.” It also proposes periodic evaluations to revise AI guidelines when necessary and would direct the California Government Operations Agency, the Department of Technology and the Office of Data and Innovation to produce reports on the risks and benefits of AI in the state.

Federal chief data officers seek information on synthetic data generation

The National Institute of Standards and Technology defines synthetic data generation as a “process in which seed data are used to create artificial data that have some of the statistical characteristics of the seed data.” That data can be used for things like creating “larger and more diverse datasets,” improving model performance, and protecting privacy, the solicitation said.

How often does ChatGPT push misinformation?

A recently published paper reveals that tools based on large language models can perpetuate and even validate misinformation, a finding that complicates the Pentagon's plans to harness generative AI and U.S. efforts to counter harmful lies.

Digital Tools See Major Uptake in Justice and Public Safety

Digital tools are increasingly permeating justice and public safety. Systems promise to give emergency responders and police more detailed insights and help short-staffed courts prepare records and keep defendants informed. Any high-stakes tech must be used carefully, of course, and those adopting the tools may need to address concerns about how the technology works or is being put to use.

AI Will Transform the Credit Industry by Putting the Customer First

We’re at an inflection point in the personal credit continuum: the next phase for the industry will be to leverage AI to find the key areas that a customer should understand and solve right away and get real time, bespoke advice on various kinds of actions to help improve their score.

Generative AI, automation to boost delivery of public services

AI-powered automation uses AI to tackle complex processes, reducing manual effort and human errors. It is particularly beneficial in a complex technological environment, where it can launch immediately and scale infinitely, allowing powerful automation to be created right from workers’ browsers. Such automation can also securely pull relevant data from structured and unstructured documents, allowing agencies to process and generate reports efficiently, and curate new datasets for emerging analysis needs.

AI watermarking could be exploited by bad actors to spread misinformation. But experts say the tech still must be adopted quickly

By and large, government and private-sector technologists agree that the use of digital watermarking to verify AI-generated content should be a key component for tackling deepfakes and other forms of malicious misinformation and disinformation. But there is no clear consensus regarding what a digital watermark is, or what common standards and policies around it should be, leading many AI experts and policymakers to fear that the technology could fall short of its potential and even empower bad actors.

Space-domain Wide Area Tracking and Characterization (Space-WATCH) Industry Day Technical Area 2 (TA2): Real-Time Automated Data Fusion & Exploitation

The goal of the Space-WATCH program is to provide real-time persistent tracking of all objects in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) so that when an anomalous action occurs, operators can be notified in a timely fashion, allowing them to plan and execute appropriate actions. To accomplish this, Space-WATCH aims to capitalize on the enormous volume of low-cost in-situ sensors in LEO on commercial satellites that can contribute to continuous detection and tracking of nearby objects, identify when an anomaly or unexpected event/movement occurs, and then provide relevant details in a timely fashion to ground-based operators who can then direct appropriate action.

Elastic Public Sector Summit 2024

Join top federal program executives and IT leaders and learn firsthand how advances in data management, search, and analytics capabilities are helping agencies turn data into mission value faster and more productively for citizens and government employees. And learn how agencies are leveraging these capabilities for cybersecurity, operational resilience, and preparing for the new era of generative AI.

The Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Insider Risk Programs

In this webinar, the ATARC Insider Risk Working Group will explore the use of AI in support of insider risk programs in Government, Industry, and Academia.

Google Defense Forum

On January 25th, join leaders from the Department of Defense's Joint All-Domain Command and Control plan and the U.S. military at the Google Defense Forum to hear how they are enhancing the nation's military readiness through the implementation of secure, flexible, and scalable technologies that are critical to mission success.