Key Group Objectives
- Form dedicated Project Teams that work together with government participants and focus on specific AI topic areas
- Identify AI and ML technology and associated contract vehicles that government can utilize to procure AI and ML products, services and solutions
- Define AI sub-components
Key Group Activities
- Bi-weekly status call with members of your project team
- Ability to attend meetings for all other project teams
- Organize government and industry events hosted by your project team
- Quarterly in-person meetings at government location
- Project deliverables to support AI in federal government
- Weekly leadership call to discuss project activities & progress
Working Group Project Teams
The Artificial Intelligence Working Group Project Teams consist of the following categories: Ethics and Responsible AI, Conversational Augmented Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, Standard Data, IoT, Robotic Process Automation, Predictive Analytics, and Value Proposition.
Leadership Team
The AI ATARC Working Group is advising all federal leaders and their private sector collaborators to prioritize AI program solutions that should be aligned with improving decision making within citizen services and g2b solutions. Through helping to guide budgeting AI, algorithmic programming in the federal IT plans, ATARC is supporting the key to AI open APIs, and open solutions.
Leadership within and outside of government can incorporate the National Institute of Standards and Technology-released guidance for how the government should approach developing those standards, which include standardized testing mechanisms and robust performance metrics, that would allow the government to better understand individual systems and determine how to develop effective standards. Those are the common standards for leap-frogging AI from principles to citizens use.
ATARC is backing the federal CTO’s regulations for executing AI in ways that will make the quality of citizens’ lives grow, as well as support the administration’s directions successfully, by sharing knowledge for productive uses of AI. United States security, knowledge, and economic growth depends on it. Real-budgeted AI solutions, based on data governance and accountability is the goal for the years ahead.
The AI Working Group Meets every Friday from 12:30-1:15 PM.
Gil Alterovitz
Government Co Chair
Nevin Taylor
Government Co Chair
Steve Harrison
Government Co Chair
Marc Wine
Government Co Chair
Ron Schmelzer
Analyst Co-Chair
Kathleen Walch
Analyst Co-Chair
Jeff Adams
Industry Vice Chair
Ethics and Responsible AI
This project team will focus on making sure that AI systems are ethical, responsible, transparent, and explainable.
This team meets every other Wednesday 12:00-12:30 PM
Current Deliverable: An Ethical Framework/Levels of transparency/Scale to measure legality and ethics in AI.
Anil Chaudhry
Government Chair
Conversational Augmented Intelligence Project Team
Current Deliverable: Playbook/White Paper on “Conversational Augmented Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Framework”.
The goal is to match use cases to commercial capabilities leveraging Augmented Intelligence within the business lines and to expose the use cases that are showing promise to scale into production within the government space (federal, state, local, etc)
Keith Nakasone
Government Chair
Alex Jacome
Industry Vice Chair
AI Standards Including Data Project Team
This project team will examine standard data, interoperability, trustworthiness, autonomy, algorithms, and expectations as it relates to AI and ML.
This team is currently meeting/working with Ethics and Responsible AI project team on this deliverable.
Meets with every other Wednesday 12:00-12:30 PM
Steven Harrison
Government Chair
IoT Project Team
This project team will look at the Internet of Things and how it impacts AI. From a healthcare perspective, this project team will ask the question, “How can AI help with the quality of life?”
Meets every other Tuesday 11:15 AM-12:00 PM
Current Deliverable: Working on a robust outline for defining and emphasizing the need for clarity in this space.
Joseph Ronzio
Government Chair
Doug Natal
Industry Chair
Craig Chapman
Adviser Chair
Elpis
Robotic Process Automation Project Team
This project team meets once a month at USAID for a small, monthly Seminar Series, which consists of industry engagements (2 hours each with 2-4 vendor presentations for approx. 50 attendees) where attendees can hear capability presentations from RPA vendors, learn industry perspectives and best practices, ask questions and network with industry-government colleagues in a more intimate setting, etc. This promotes better government exploration, understanding, and adoption of RPA technologies, as well as encourages meaningful conversations with industry, while reiterating this theme through tangible events.
Mitchell Winans
Government Chair
Eric Teasdale
Industry Chair
Brian Mooers
Government Vice-Chair
GSA
Predictive Analytics, Decision Support & Patterns/Anomalies Project Team
Departments are asked to respond to the questions for the purpose of refining technical assistance in support of the administration’s priority to introduce AI into government IT standards, best practices, and modernization projects. These questions are aligned with the Federal CTO’s direction for ensuring AI growth through government and industry collaboration,adhering to democratic and Open Data standards. The future is advancing and enhancing mobile, electronic information services for American citizens and around the globe. The president has prioritized AI for government budgeting, and Congress is allocating funds to ensure citizens, government and industry execute transparent and trustworthy AI open applications across the Lines of Business and throughout the U.S. economy. Focus on the practical goals for department’s budgeting of AI solutions will enable the innovation and efficiencies that taxpayers and oversight organization are expecting, accountability, IT innovation and cost-benefit and national security.
This project team meets every other Monday from 2-2:30 PM
Current Deliverable: Take our survey here!
Alexander Measure
Government Chair
Chakib Chraibi
Government Chair
Value Proposition of AI and ML Project Team
This project team will examine how to solve current problems of every day circumstance and how to promote situational awareness.
Nevin Taylor
Government Chair
Harvard Nation International Security Fellow
White House Presidential Innovation Fellow
Gabe Chang
Industry Vice-Chair
Ryan Branon
Industry Vice-Chair