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The Department of Veterans Affairs has unveiled a research and development hub for artificial intelligence-based health care technology platforms intended to support former military personnel, their families and caregivers.

Reps. Pete Olson (R-Texas) and Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.), co-chairs of the Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus, said they want federal agencies to coordinate more on AI initiatives to achieve efficiency, Federal Times reported Thursday.

The Department of Education has asked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland to submit detailed records of contracts and gifts from foreign governments and technology firms, Nextgov reported Tuesday.

The U.S. Air Force and the Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office have decided to continue the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s work on a program to provide cyber personnel with a tool to plan and carry out cyber operations, Fifth Domain reported Monday.

The U.S. Army is working on its cloud architecture and intends to do so for two more years before investing in artificial intelligence technology, Fedscoop reported Friday. Ryan McCarthy, secretary of the Army, said at an American Enterprise Institute event that cloud would serve as the groundwork for the service branch's future AI-related efforts.

The U.S. Air Force plans to work on three “vanguard” programs encompassing technologies such as next-generation munitions, navigation satellites and unmanned aircraft, National Defense Magazine reported Thursday.

The U.S. Army seeks to modernize its cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and training via application of industry-made 5G cellular technologies, C4ISRNet reported Thursday. Col. Schawn Branch, who leads the Army's 5G and enterprise information technology as a service program, told C4ISRNet the service branch is focusing 5G efforts on augmented and virtual reality, global asset management and smart technology depots.

The White House National Science and Technology Council released its 2016–2019 progress report on the advancement of research-and-development work on artificial intelligence. The report documents the initiatives agencies have launched in the past three years to deliver on federal AI R&D and is structured around the eight priority areas outlined in the National AI R&D Strategic Plan: 2019 Update issued in June.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has earmarked $15M to support 23 projects that aim to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning tools in the design of energy systems.

Lt. Gen. Eric Smith, commander of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, said that artificial intelligence efforts should focus on collating large amounts of data to be used at the tactical-edge level, C4ISRnet reported Saturday.