Jack Shanahan, director at the Department of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) and 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, said the U.S. military needs security professionals who can validate the benefits and limitations
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LexisNexis Risk Solutions has formed a partnership with Bode Technology to assist police investigations by providing person-of-interest information from more than 600 million public records and the largest law enforcement contributory database
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released facial photographs, fingerprints, iris scans and other biometric research data designed for testing systems used to validate an individual’s identity prior to granting
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Gerard Badorrek, chief financial officer at the General Services Administration, said a new community of practice is gathering agency best practices and use cases related to robotic process automation to help inform
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The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate has unveiled the champion of a global $1.55M competition on opioid detection technology. IDSS, winner of the Opioid Detection Challenge, will receive a $500K grand prize for
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Bob Work, vice chair of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, said the Department of Defense should update a directive on producing autonomous weapons to reflect new technologies like artificial intelligence, C4ISRnet reported Thursday.
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Dana Deasy, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said the Pentagon will move 14 components to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud environment beginning in February as
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Suzette Kent, federal chief information officer and a 2019 Wash100 winner, says that the government anticipates an increase in information technology modernization in 2020, Nextgov reported Wednesday.
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The Senate Commerce Committee passed a bill that will enable firefighters, police officers and emergency personnel to communicate through the use of T-Band frequencies.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has selected 12 organizations that will advise the agency in efforts to create a process for administering aeronautical knowledge and safety tests for recreational drone operators.
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