{"id":1960,"date":"2019-09-19T02:14:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T02:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kusuaks7\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:48:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T13:48:58","slug":"where-to-use-ai-and-other-tips-from-cios-on-emerging-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/ai-ml\/where-to-use-ai-and-other-tips-from-cios-on-emerging-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to Use AI and Other Tips From CIOs on Emerging Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The chief information officers from the departments of Health and Human Services, Justice and the General Services Administration offered emerging tech ideas to feds.<\/strong><\/h3><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArtificial intelligence, machine learning and other associated technologies aren\u2019t a panacea for the federal government, but strategic investments in those technologies are becoming almost mandatory for agencies that want to stay ahead of the technological curve.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cWe\u2019re using AI and machine learning in several areas,\u201d said General Services Administration Chief Information Officer Dave Shive, speaking Monday at an event hosted by the Professional Services Council. \u201cWe\u2019re increasingly using AI, pointing our AI algorithms out to our cloud boundaries … and taking a look not only at the logs presented in those cloud environments but the actions of people as they interact with those cloud technologies.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe combination of increased data storage capacity through cloud computing and sophisticated algorithms provides GSA a means to up its insider threat-tracking game, allowing the agency to look at how employees act on datasets over time and \u201cflag when actions don\u2019t make a lot of sense,\u201d Shive said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShive spoke alongside Health and Human Services CIO Jose Arrieta and Justice CIO Joseph Klimavicz, who shared how their respective agencies are employing emerging technologies to further their missions.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArietta said HHS recently undertook three emerging tech pilots, including a\u00a0recurrent neural network<\/a>\u00a0he hopes will improve the agency\u2019s acquisition decision-making. For the pilot, Arietta said HHS technologists fed 9,000 contracting statements of work through AI algorithms using natural language processing. The algorithms scored each word in every sentence and \u201cvectorized\u201d those statements of work before they were fed into a predictive model based on reporting from the Government Accountability Office. The goal, Arietta said, was to \u201cflag what may be inherently governmental and what may not be,\u201d allowing for an \u201capples-to-apples comparison on price points.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArietta,\u00a0who has been vocal<\/a>\u00a0about turning HHS into a testbed for emerging technology since he came into the job this summer, is\u00a0also partnering<\/a>\u00a0with the Defense Information Systems Agency to test new ways to assess identity at the edge of networks.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cWe\u2019re leveraging emerging technology to push the envelope,\u201d Arietta said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKlimavicz said the Justice Department is testing 5G phones and beginning to look at quantum computing. While those technologies are on the near horizon\u2014the Trump administration\u00a0recently launched<\/a>\u00a0a committee to examine quantum efforts\u2014Klimavicz said Justice is already making use of robotic process automation and machine learning to pair its growing datasets with analytic platforms.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIdeating within a bureaucracy isn\u2019t easy business, Klimavicz said, so he spends a lot of time with industry technologies and with other government CIOs, likening it to a \u201cCIO support group.\u201d If they do something quickly at low costs, he said, it might work for him, too.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAll three CIOs agreed that\u2014in most cases\u2014it makes far more sense for the government to buy commercial technologies rather than build them. In addition, they agreed that employees\u2014existing or potential new recruits\u2014must factor into tech decision-making processes for the future.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cIf you do transformation and you don\u2019t transform your workforce, you leave people behind\u2014often your best people,\u201d Shive said. \u201cWe retrain and reskill our staff and make sure they are educated. We go after new talent but we\u2019re careful to maintain the legacy that exists. For those who think legacy IT people can\u2019t become modern IT people, I say this: This new world we\u2019re in, this is no different than you at the start of your careers.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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