Emerging Tech

Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence

Establishes new standards for AI safety and security, protects Americans’ privacy, advances equity and civil rights, stands up for consumers and workers, promotes innovation and competition, advances American leadership around the world, and more.
FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Summarizes the eight sections of the Executive Order: New Standards for AI Safety and Security; Protecting Americans’ Privacy; Advancing Equity and Civil Rights; Standing Up for Consumers, Patients, and Students; Supporting Workers; Promoting Innovation and Competition; Advancing American Leadership Abroad; and Ensuring Responsible and Effective Government Use of AI.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

A collaborative body designed to rapidly accelerate the adoption of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology across the federal government.

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Why some technologists choose public service

The General Services Administration (GSA) employs nearly 12,000 people who provide services to federal agencies and the public, and has been recognized as one of the top federal agencies to work for, emphasizing a people-first culture. Through the Tech to Gov initiative, GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) has successfully recruited top tech talent to enhance digital government services. Get to know some of GSA’s newest technologists. — via General Services Administration

May 22, 2024

In 2023, TTS stepped up to meet growing technology demands for government

GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) celebrated major milestones and met growing demand for its services in 2023. This wrap-up summaries key successes in five areas: improving customer experience, modernizing federal technology, innovating for the future, focus on equity and accessibility, and building the technology workforce of tomorrow. — via General Services Administration

Jan 24, 2024

Join us to learn more about design patterns and how they fit into the design system.

Dan Williams

Veterans Affairs

An Accidental AI Professional

This feature on Agata Ciesielski, a fellow in the White House Presidential Innovation Fellowship (PIF) Program, highlights the opportunities provided by the program to work on big impact inter-agency problems, such as elevating artificial intelligence solutions.

Jul 06, 2022

10x Announces 25 New Projects Launching This Fiscal Year

Starting with a pool of nearly 200 ideas, 10x is excited to announce new projects to be funded at the Phase One Investigation level for FY22. Here’s how we got there, some observations made, and next steps.

Will Cahoe

Jun 09, 2022

Our friends at Digital.gov will join us to talk through their experience migrating to USWDS 3.0.

Dan Williams

Matthew Bogdan

Learn about what a Digital End-to-End Efficiency (DEEE) Framework is and how you can get started digitizing and automating your digital processes.

Beth Martin

Jesrael Lopez

Bernadette Goodwin

During this event, the USWDS core team will preview what to expect in the new USWDS 3.0.

James Mejia

Dan Williams

RPA

Assessing the State of Federal Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

The 2021 State of Federal Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Report describes the growth and maturity of federal RPA programs to convey agency progress in digital transformation and automation.

Gabrielle Perret

Jan 26, 2022

Innovation

Prioritizing Equity in Government-Led Innovation Programs

For the second year, college and university students are leveraging the TOP model from Census to build hands-on skills and address some of our nation’s most pressing challenges.

Haley Ashcom

Oct 25, 2021

Robotic Process Automation

5 Tips for Implementing Citizen Development in Your RPA Program

The Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Community of Practice highlights five key points for implementing RPA citizen developers, as shared by federal subject matter experts James Gregory (General Services Administration), Frank Wood (Defense Logistics Agency), and Russ Kuehn (Social Security Administration) during their recent webinars with the Federal RPA Community of Practice.

James Gregory

Aug 16, 2021

GSA Future Focus: Web Scraping

GSA Future Focus: Web Scraping—Often referred to as screen scraping, web harvesting, or web crawling, web scraping is a process that extracts unstructured data and text from web pages, and converts it into a form that can be easily analyzed. Learn how GSA’s Emerging Tech team has identified some best practices to help agencies use this technology responsibly and effectively. — via General Services Administration

Jul 07, 2021

Social Media

The questions in this post were curated from attendees of the Deep Fakes and Social Media Webinar, hosted by the SocialGov Community of Practice and Digital.gov on May 18, 2021.

Alex Cohen

Gabrielle Perret

Jun 08, 2021

ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION

3 Things You Should Know About the Federal RPA Use Case Inventory

The Federal Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Community of Practice is updating the RPA Use Case Inventory, which provides detailed information on over 300 RPA Use Cases across the federal government.

Gabrielle Perret

Jonathan Clinton

May 24, 2021

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will present the work that led to the creation of the DHS AI Strategy to interagency partners.

Robotic Process Automation

State of Federal RPA Report: Adoption and Impact of Robotic Process Automation in the Federal Government

The report describes the maturity and growth of RPA programs to convey agency progress in digital transformation and automation.

Jim Geoghegan

Nov 30, 2020

In this webinar, experts from the National Institute of Standards and Technology provide an overview of their key artificial intelligence initiatives including responsible, trustworthy, and explainable AI.

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Transform Federal Business Operations: Join the RPA Community of Practice

Federal employees interested in robotic process automation should join the RPA Community of Practice as their agencies commence their RPA programs.

Jim Geoghegan

Jul 10, 2020

We’ll show you how easy it can be to wrangle data and engage in technical discussions surrounding data, artificial intelligence, machine-learning models.

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Steven Babitch

Join the RPA Community of Practice online to discuss the next steps in accelerating the adoption of robotic process automation in the federal environment.

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Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence

FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Join a Community of Practice

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

News and Events on Emerging Tech

Why some technologists choose public service

In 2023, TTS stepped up to meet growing technology demands for government

USWDS Monthly Call - August 2022

An Accidental AI Professional

10x Announces 25 New Projects Launching This Fiscal Year

USWDS Monthly Call - April 2022

Change the Way Digital Work Gets Done

USWDS Monthly Call - March 2022

Assessing the State of Federal Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Prioritizing Equity in Government-Led Innovation Programs

5 Tips for Implementing Citizen Development in Your RPA Program

GSA Future Focus: Web Scraping

3 Things You Should Know About the Federal RPA Use Case Inventory

Artificial Intelligence for Homeland Security: Developing the Strategy

State of Federal RPA Report: Adoption and Impact of Robotic Process Automation in the Federal Government

Overview of NIST Initiatives on Artificial Intelligence Standards, Principles, and Critical AI Issues

Transform Federal Business Operations: Join the RPA Community of Practice

AI Tech Workshop: How to Utilize the Open Source Jupyter Project for your Research

RPA Community of Practice: March All-Hands Meeting