It follows a 30% reduction in the acquisition workforce at the General Services Administration over the past year.

The agency’s deputy administrator, who previously led GSA on an acting basis, has been named CEO of C3 AI.

While past administrations have tried to reform the FAR, Josh Gruenbaum believes “this time is different” with the use of AI.

Spurred by an April executive order, the Trump administration plans to issue a slimmed-down version of the Federal Acquisition Regulation later this year.

Robin Carnahan said the new policy will push her agency to protect government data and use it responsibly within AI tools, encourage experimentation of the technology —…

“By standardizing a set of minimum cybersecurity standards to be applied consistently to FISs, the proposed rule would ensure that such systems are better positioned in advance…

The new rule follows a White House memo in February that gave government IT leaders 30 days to identify the presence of the app on agency devices.

The General Services Administration say it hopes to share details of the updated certification process with tech companies by June 12.

The National Technical Information Service helps agencies to improve data collection, labeling and classifying, and use data to ensure machine-learning models can be trusted.

From Aug. 22, small businesses will be able to use prior experience from joint ventures and prime contracts with subcontracting plans.