The Government Accountability Office has developed a framework that can help the Department of Veterans Affairs, along with other agencies, ensure responsibility and accountability when designing, developing, deploying and monitoring AI systems,
The federal government reported receipts amounting to $1.1 trillion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 and outlays amounting to $1.6 trillion, resulting in a budget deficit total of $509 billion.
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The National Science Foundation is calling for proposals for the fiscal year 2024 activities under the Responsible Design, Development and Deployment of Technologies program. The ReDDDoT program’s objectives include enabling research and capacity
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The AFWERX Weapons Program Executive Office is seeking to develop future, low-cost variants of cruise missiles through a Design Sprint and Challenge. According to AFWERX Challenge team lead Cayley Dymond, the envisioned
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The awardees under Phase I of the 2024 edition of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program have been announced. The NIAC program will provide grants worth up to $175,000 in total to
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The Assured Access to Space Program Executive Office within the Space Systems Command recently conducted an exercise under its Parallax Rising program. Parallax Rising 2.2, the third installment in a series of tabletop
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The Department of Energy’s Heliostat Consortium is offering up to $3 million in funding for projects that would lower the cost of heliostat technologies, a component of concentrating solar-thermal power systems. The
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The National Science Foundation is calling for proposals for the Enabling Access to the Semiconductor Chip Ecosystem for Design, Fabrication and Training program, which seeks to establish infrastructure that would support the
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The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has released new guidance meant to facilitate greater public engagement whenever it exercises its function of reviewing proposed federal regulatory actions. To achieve this objective,
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The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has released a collection of four research papers about the role to be played by science and technology in addressing future challenges posed
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NASA has issued the first iteration of a document that aims to provide guidance on how best to address and adapt to the cyber vulnerabilities that accompany the growing interconnectedness and integration
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