Billy Mitchell

1 week ago | fedscoop.com | Billy Mitchell

The Trump administration has launched an effort to overhaul the Federal Acquisition Regulation with a focus on delivering a quicker, more efficient and less burdensome procurement process for federal agencies. To provide details on the progress of the so-called “Revolutionary FAR Overhaul,” the General Services Administration — one of the federal government’s lead procurement agencies and a member of the FAR Council — launched a new website Tuesday for the initiative.

2 weeks ago | defensescoop.com | Billy Mitchell

The U.S. military services face no shortage of challenges in adopting artificial intelligence to drive better mission outcomes — and one of the biggest things holding them back is that their personnel really don’t understand what AI is and what it can do for them, a panel of senior officials said Tuesday.

3 weeks ago | fedscoop.com | Billy Mitchell

The General Services Administration is not happy with the top-10 consulting firms it asked back in February to self-identify contracts that could be terminated to save the federal government money, going as far as to call their efforts under the initiative “insulting.” Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, wrote in a letter to those 10 firms, viewed by FedScoop, that GSA and its contracting partners are “unanimously unimpressed” with the cost savings those...

4 weeks ago | fedscoop.com | Billy Mitchell

The public can now submit ideas for deregulating government through an online form, the General Services Administration announced Wednesday. GSA and the Office of Management and Budget launched the form through Regulations.gov, a website that provides public access to regulatory materials and aims to increase rulemaking participation while improving federal efficiency and effectiveness.

1 month ago | defensescoop.com | Billy Mitchell

NATO announced Monday that it has awarded a contract to Palantir to adopt its Maven Smart System for artificial intelligence-enabled battlefield operations. Through the contract, which was finalized March 25, the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) plans to use a version of the AI system — Maven Smart System NATO — to support the transatlantic military organization’s Allied Command Operations strategic command.