GSA’s approach to artificial intelligence acquisition: ‘do it once’ and repeat, official says
Summary
Among the many aims of President Joe Biden’s artificial intelligence executive order is improving how quickly and efficiently federal agencies are able to acquire the technology. Making it more complicated: The tension between how fast AI capabilities are moving and government’s desire for stability with the things it acquires. And then ultimately, our job is to make it dead easy for agencies to focus on their missions, instead of having to figure out how to buy these complicated things on a one-off basis. We are using AI within FAS, for example, to identify supply chain risk and be able to automatically kick off risky products and services off our contract vehicles. That’s been in place for some time — agencies using AI for imagery analysis, satellite management, like all sorts of different capabilities.