TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) Chatbots can now invent new recipes (with mixed success), plan vacations, or write a budget-conscious grocery list. So what’s stopping them from summarizing secret intelligence or drafting detailed military operations orders? Nothing, in theory, said AI experts from the independent Special Competitive Studies Project. The Defense Department should definitely explore those possibilities, SCSP argues,…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems, recently launched the Army Contract Writing System, a platform designed to provide the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement with a single enterprise writing and management system to streamline the Army contracting process. The initial user group includes 104 contracting…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) The Government Accountability Office sustained 93 legal challenges to National Institutes of Health’s embattled solicitation, CIO-SP4, concluding that the agency “unreasonably failed” to advance proposals past the first phase on their evaluation. In a statement, managing associate general counsel for procurement law at GAO Kenneth E. Patton said the agency’s decision to not advance…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) No action appears likely to resolve the 130-plus protests involving this $50 billion IT vehicle, which indicates the Government Accountability Office will decide on the contract’s next steps Everything points toward full hearings on the objections raised more than 130 protestors regarding the $50 billion CIO-SP4 contract for IT solutions. A small handful of…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) Edge computing has become a much talked-about element of federal IT infrastructures in recent years. But what is edge computing? At the time, the plan was to begin certifying contractors as soon as 2020. For one thing, the word means much more than a small data center somewhere out there. In fact, many interrelated…