Andy Beamon, vice president of digital solutions for citizen services at Maximus' federal business, has said federal agencies seeking to transform the delivery of citizen services should understand how robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, bots and cognitive computing differ from one another. “Understanding the differences between them is important as it impacts both the citizens' experience and government agencies navigating the procurement process,“ Beamon wrote in a Nextgov article published Monday.
Read More »Air Force Research Lab, IBM Partner to Develop Neurosynaptic Supercomputer
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has teamed up with IBM to build a supercomputing platform designed to facilitate information discovery and neural network learning. The brain-inspired supercomputer will run on the IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System's 64-chip array and will have sensory processing and pattern recognition functionalities equivalent to 16 …
Read More »SAP NS2's Mark Testoni: AI Could Help Prevent Cyber Attacks Through Threat Classification
Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, has said artificial intelligence could help block cyber attacks through classification of network threats, CSO reported Friday. “An AI has supervised learning capabilities using neural networks for entity and pattern recognition for intrusion detection systems and event forensics applications,“ Testoni told CSO's …
Read More »AFRL Seeks Partners for R&D Funding Opportunity on Quantum Computing Sciences
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s information directorate seeks white papers on ideas that support the research, design, development, concept testing, evaluation and experimentation of quantum computing sciences under a potential $40 million funding opportunity. According to a broad agency announcement posted Friday on FedBizOpps, the funding opportunity aims to assess algorithm designs and technologies that …
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