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Agencies across the government are looking at AI to speed things up and improve mission delivery. But it can be misused. For how federal agencies can keep AI honest, the program lead for the artificial intelligence security initiative at the University of California Berkley, Jessica Newman.
In today's Federal Newscast, federal managers say they need more guidance from the Biden administration about the new vaccine and testing policy for employees.
The Government Accountability Office is planning to release a report in early fiscal 2022 about the cybersecurity impacts of technologies adopted in response to the pandemic.
The Office of Management and Budget is launching Evaluation.gov as a hub for agencies to document how they will back up program performance with data and metrics.
Facial recognition technology has gone mainstream in the federal government. Federal Drive with Tom Temin got the latest from the director for science, technology assessment and analytics at the Government Accountability Office, Candice Wright.
In 2017, Congress created a new system for veterans to appeal their disability claims. VBA's Mary Frances Matthews was put in charge of speeding those claims along, and by all accounts, she was wildly successful.
Bid protests are a relatively effective tool for losing bidders who think an agency got it wrong. According to GAO, 51% of the protests filed last year were either resolved in the protestors favor, or by the agency taking action on its own.
As the House sets new deadlines to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill by the end of September, here are several provisions that might impact federal employees and their agencies.
This week, Michael Binder spoke with Robert Storch, who assumed the duties as Inspector General of the National Security Agency (NSA) in January 2018, and was the first IG at NSA to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate,
For reasons that still aren't completely clear, the gap gets wider depending on how much disaster aid FEMA contributes to local relief.
The Department of Homeland Security has dabbled with affective computing to see if it detects lies among people seeking entry to the country. But Alex Engler says now is the time to put boundaries around it.
U.S. Census Bureau computer servers were exploited last year during a cybersecurity attack, but it didn't involve the 2020 census
For the latest assessment of the project, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the managing director of infrastructure operations at the Government Accountability Office Terry Dorn.
For analysis, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with senior fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University Will Rinehart.