Victoria Virasingh has charted a unique course in the public and technology sectors. Upon exiting Stanford University with a B.A. in International Relations and an M.A. in Latin American Studies, she saw a gap between the D.C. world and the tech world that needed to be bridged. After completing her Masters, Virasingh landed at Palantir...
Artificial intelligence has defined the technological landscape in the United States for nearly the past two years. As leaders from the public and private sectors alike grapple with the new AI era, data governance and democratizing AI access have emerged as key priorities, especially for agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency. “I cannot str...
Artificial intelligence has seen a meteoric rise across the public and private sectors alike as new advancements, policies and opportunities fuel continued growth and interest for the promising technology. However, AI is not without risk, and government leaders are weighing risk against potential benefits as they seek to adopt it. Dr. Kathleen Fishe...
The field of artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, and the U.S. government is working to adapt to these constant changes as quickly as possible. To ensure that AI is brought in successfully, federal organizations have devised new strategies to guide their adoption of AI tools. During a panel discussion at the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th An...
The U.S. Department of Defense’s messaging on future fights has been clear: if a geopolitical conflict were to arise that necessitated American participation, the country would not go at it alone. Relationships with international allies are crucial today and looking into the future, which is why Potomac Officers Club is holding an event of utmost...
The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office is set to release its first maturity model for large language models this year, according to CDAO Chief Technology Officer William Streilein. LLMs are deep learning models that are trained on mass amounts of data and can respond to prompts from a human. They are a major...
The Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System, known as JWICS, is a top secret information technology network used by Department of Defense and Intelligence Community components. According to Defense Intelligence Agency Chief Information Officer Doug Cossa, the agency is in the midst of a “huge effort” to transform the system to meet ...
At the end of 2023, Steve Harris became the president and general manager of the newly established public sector business unit at Alteryx, a data science and analytics tools provider in the GovCon market. Executive Mosaic recently sat down with Harris, a six-time Wash100 Award winner, to learn more about how artificial intelligence is shaping the...
The October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe Secure and Trustworthy Development of Artificial Intelligence launched the U.S. government into a new era of AI exploration. Federal agencies have since heightened their focus on AI adoption, and organizations across the public sector are constantly working to progress a variety of AI initiatives. At the ...
The U.S. Army is currently working to implement its Unified Data Reference Architecture, which is designed to join a data mesh and data fabric in a way that would allow users to easily access data products across different formats and locations. According to Deputy Secretary of the Army for Data, Engineering and Software Jennifer Swanson, who sp...
