NIST seeks contractors to build AI testing datasets for security and safety verification
The National Institute of Standards and Technology wants curated datasets to test systems across cybersecurity, criminal misuse prevention and language translation capabilities. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the early stages of developing a contract to access multiple data sets to test and verify artificial intelligence systems. NIST’s U.S. Center for AI Standards […]
Redhorse moves Klemm up to CEO post
Klemm’s two-decade career in the market covers national security, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and data exploitation. Redhorse Corp. has promoted Noah Klemm to the chief executive post, less than a year after the digital transformation and data science services provider elevated him to president. Klemm will continue to oversee all aspects of Redhorse’s strategy and […]
Coast Guard picks 3 for $700M tech lifecycle pact
The Coast Guard is using this blanket purchase agreement to bring together its IT support structure and business practices into a single model. The Coast Guard has awarded three companies positions on a five-year, $700 million blanket purchase agreement for lifecycle support services across the agency’s systems and applications portfolio. AttainX, VivSoft Technologies, and a GoHPT-ISHPI […]
Navy awards Microsoft sole-source cloud contract, admits vendor lock-in risk
The Naval Sea Systems Command believes switching cloud providers would require a “re-engineering” of the solution from the ground up. The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Microsoft a sole-source contract for cloud computing services under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program. While the dollar value of the new three-year contract has been redacted, NAVSEA admits […]
As shutdown looms, federal agencies have no public plans for one
How the Trump administration would handle a shutdown and who it plans to furlough remains a mystery. Federal agencies are just eight days away from seeing their funding lapse and having to shutter their offices, though which employees will be sent home remains unknown. Typically, agencies publicly post their “contingency plans” in advance of a potential […]