In a crowded field of AI contenders, the agency’s office of the CIO prioritizes partnerships with vendors that employees are favoring, such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

The agency’s chief information officer said her team’s workforce enablement tools are helping the crew behind the Genesis Mission do their jobs faster and better.

Administrator Brandon Williams said cloud services help the government keep pace with industry, as the agency announced its first enterprise environment for secret/restricted data.

The three main priorities of the project include a competition to develop systems, a supercomputing facility for engineers and targeted research to advance scientific use cases.

Such an exchange is being eyed for NASA, per the leader of the Tech Force.

Regional Innovation Clusters enjoyed bipartisan support for 15 years. Then Elon Musk’s group canceled awards and left backers of the tech startup initiative searching for answers.

The Department of Energy’s national labs have already partnered up with Japanese research institutions to form working groups that will focus on a subset of AI challenges.

The agency is weighing the risks of unintended consequences along with the potential pitfalls of having workers become a “limiting factor,” per a top technology leader.

During a fiscal 2027 budget hearing Wednesday, senators raised concerns about the risks of the agency’s fast-tracking of licensing processes and focus on efficiency.

The interest in artificial intelligence additions follows what the agency is characterizing as a successful HR modernization project that centralized talent management platforms.