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Anthropic introduces new Claude Gov models with national security focus

1 day ago | nextgov.com | Alexandra Kelley

Anthropic has announced that new versions of its Claude Gov large language models are ready for adoption at the government level, specifically for national security mission workloads.
Commerce rebrands its AI Safety Institute

2 days ago | nextgov.com | Alexandra Kelley

A Biden administration-era government office at the Department of Commerce focused on understanding and defining the risks inherent to artificial intelligence systems while offering mitigation guidance is undergoing a major change and will be renamed as the Center for AI Standards and Innovation.
Republican legislators voice support for public funding in AI research

2 days ago | nextgov.com | Alexandra Kelley

Two Republican senators voiced support for continued government investment in artificial intelligence research efforts, citing its role in larger U.S. national security goals at the AI + Expo in Washington, D.C.Sens. Todd Young, R-Ind., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., spoke on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, on the importance of public funding to spearhead innovation and breakthroughs across the AI sector.
FDA unveils ‘Elsa’ generative AI tool for staff

4 days ago | nextgov.com | Alexandra Kelley

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched a generative artificial intelligence-powered tool on Tuesday, tailored to help the agency’s scientific research efforts and operational work as part of a larger bid to expedite its core missions. Named Elsa, the large language model is hosted within a high-security GovCloud environment to ensure the safety of the reservoir of internal documents it can access.
Public-private partnerships need more ‘efficiency,’ Energy official says

4 days ago | nextgov.com | Alexandra Kelley

Leaders within the Department of Energy said on Monday they are poised to leverage the agency’s high performance computing resources to help advance U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence innovation, but they also moved to underscore the need for better processes to support faster industry partnerships.
Pentagon heightens scrutiny on IT, management consulting contracts

1 week ago | nextgov.com | Ross Wilkers

The Defense Department is under a new edict to lower the number of IT consulting and management services contracts as part of a larger push to take on more of that work in-house. In a memo sent Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed DOD leaders and components not to execute new contracts or task orders for IT consulting or management services without a written justification first.
NVIDIA to keep Shanghai operations despite lawmaker concerns

1 week ago | nextgov.com | Alexandra Kelley

NVIDIA will continue its research operations in Shanghai despite concern expressed by the Senate Banking Committee in a Wednesday letter, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang confirmed on Thursday. Speaking during a press conference in Berkeley, California on Thursday, Huang announced plans to bring an NVIDIA-powered supercomputer to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory alongside Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Dell Senior Vice President Paul Perez.
Energy, NVIDIA and Dell unveil new planned supercomputer

1 week ago | nextgov.com | Alexandra Kelley

BERKELEY, Calif. — The public and private sectors have once again come together to support a new “game-changing” supercomputing installation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which will be called “Doudna.”Doudna is due in 2026 and will be powered by liquid-cooled hardware from Dell and Vera-Rubin central-and general-processing unit software from NVIDIA.
The acquisition rule (re)writers really want you to have your say

1 week ago | nextgov.com | Ross Wilkers

Skip to Content Featured eBooks Insights & Reports The federal government team responsible for overhauling the rules that govern how agencies buy $1 trillion in goods and services does look at the comments they receive on what they are doing.
Fired GSA 18F employees appeal to have jobs reinstated

1 week ago | nextgov.com | David DiMolfetta |Natalie Alms

Former employees of the General Services Administration’s 18F unit, an in-house consultancy that helps agencies with their technology matters, filed an appeal to reinstate their employment after their positions were eliminated in March in a move that entirely wiped out that office. The terminated employees filed a class-action appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, they announced Thursday.