Margie Graves

Seldom has there been a simultaneous evolution of two powerful and complementary technologies—artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing (QC).

AI refers to machines programmed to mimic human intelligence. These systems use algorithms to analyze data, recognize patterns, and make decisions. Generative AI is a subset of AI that creates new content from learned data. It generates original material across various mediums (text, images, audio, etc.). Traditional AI analyzes existing data, but generative AI goes beyond by generating new content.

With the IBM Center for The Business of Government’s next due date for new research report proposals approaching on September 6th, we are publishing additional perspectives on our research topics over the next week in the form of blog posts focused on each topic.   The insights in these posts draw from dialogue that helped to frame the research agenda, as well as subsequent content relevant to each research topic area.  We hope that these posts provide potential research

This essay and much more content about government leadership and management appears in The Business of Government magazine. 

I am heartened by the fact that there is such continued focus on the topic and accelerated momentum in implementing improvements.

Federal agencies and their partners are engaged in a continuous and ongoing dialog about improvements to our cybersecurity posture. I am heartened by the fact that there is such continued focus on the topic and accelerated momentum in implementing improvements.

Over the past few years the COVID-19 pandemic has done much to expose and highlight critical gaps and flaws in the global supply chain. While demand for products and services continues to surge, key players in the supply chain delivery value chain struggle to meet that demand in a timely fashion. Scarce supply has resulted in increasing prices for finished goods and raw materials and an inflationary global economy.

The pace of these changes is so rapid that it has become necessary to harness the power of emerging technology as a key enabler of addressing these threats to our way of life. In particular, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a force for public good in recent years. The technology is revolutionizing the way we derive value and insights from data in order to improve our daily lives. In addition, governments gather a treasure trove of pertinent data that can be used to execute important missions and improve services to the citizen.

Agencies can learn from experience about how modernization investments can be sustained and scaled over time as they prepare their first round of proposals for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF).   Specifically, the TMF guidance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) calls for proposals that reach across the government enterprise to include:

Last week we published the first in an ongoing series of commentaries intended to highlight the Technology Modernization Fund as a funding option available to agencies to modernize critical systems while lessening reliance on costly legacy systems and reducing cyber risk. In this first post, we outlined elements of the Office of Management and Budget’s TMF/American Rescue Plan (APR) guidance that were just recently updated.