Automation

Frank Kendall

DoD, Air Force pair with HBCUs for new research consortium

DoD and the Air Force are currently considering 11 schools to lead the center.

Defense

FNN/Office of the House Majority Leader

Dome Watch, mobile app, Congress, phone

Current, former Hill staffers say centralized authority needed to modernize Congress

Congress

Lead agency for security clearance reform expands ‘continuous vetting’

Inside the IC

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

FILE - In this photo March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. Lawmakers are increasingly looking at boosting the IRS to help pay for infrastructure improvements. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

IRS expands AI-powered bots to set up payment plans with taxpayers over the phone

Artificial Intelligence

IT modernization

VA looks to overhaul pay, ‘antiquated’ hiring processes in major veteran care bill

Veterans Affairs

Superintendent Keith Stadler, left, and Vice President Kamala Harris touch a headstone belonging to Inez Crittenden during a tour of Suresnes American Cemetery in Suresnes, France on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Inez Crittenden of Oakland, Calif., led a team of 232 bilingual switchboard operators known as the

How automation is showing a lot of promise in approving veterans’ survivors dependency claims

Veterans Affairs

U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cybersp/Staff Sgt. Jacob Osborne

Marines with Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command pose for photos in the cyber operations center at Lasswell Hall aboard Fort Meade, Maryland, Feb. 5, 2020. MARFORCYBER Marines conduct offensive and defensive cyber operations in support of United States Cyber Command and operate, secure and defend the Marine Corps Enterprise Network. This image is a photo illustration.

Pentagon’s CDAO aims to scale ‘different operating model’

Defense

FILE - A sign is displayed outside the Internal Revenue Service building May 4, 2021, in Washington. A private company, enQ, lets those who are willing to pay jump to the front of the line to get their phone calls answered at the IRS. That has attracted the attention of lawmakers who want the IRS to investigate the company's impact on the agency's phone capacity. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

IRS’ quick wins by procurement, finance demonstrate power, value of RPA

Ask the CIO

Air National Guard, Air Force, National Guard, guardsmen

One National Guard unit’s idea to improve efficiency: spend less time filling out forms

On DoD

FILE- This Jan. 21, 2017, file photo shows the floor of the main lobby of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. The FBI “exercised remarkable caution and candor” in securing search warrants that led to espionage charges against a former CIA employee, prosecutors have told a federal judge presiding over the case. Prosecutors said a court hearing is not necessary to reject Joshua Adam Schulte’s claims that evidence should be tossed out because searches of his New York City residence and various electronic accounts were illegal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Spy agencies look to standardize use of open source intelligence

Intelligence Community

electronic health record, EHR, veterans affairs, VA

Federal health tech leaders want to extract data for greater equity

Technology

Outgoing intelligence community data chief previews forthcoming data strategy

The intelligence community is drafting a new data strategy for the first time since 2017, with a big focus on training a data savvy workforce.

Inside the IC

Dale Sisson
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
SES Technical Director

On the gun line at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren: A history of computing advances

For the second installment in this week’s series looking at Dahlgren’s activities, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with the division’s Technical…

Navy

NGA looks to speed up software development with key metrics, ‘CORE’ capabilities

Intelligence Community

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is looking to deliver software more like the tech industry under a new strategy that sets key metrics for both internal development teams and contractors.

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