Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Working Group
Leadership Team
The White House Executive Order on American AI Initiative signifies unquestionable effort to promote AI technology and innovation in the federal government as a whole. This initiative has further translated into agency-level undertakings such as the DOD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), and the GSA Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence.
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 1:00-1:45 PM.
Jeff Adams
Industry Vice Chair
Anil Chaudhry
Government Chair
General Services Administration
Yvonne Cole
Government Chair
Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization
Keith Nakasone
Government Chair
GSA
Denis Ortega
Government Chair
OMB
Alka Patel
Government Vice Chair
Joint Artificial Intelligence Center
John Sprague
Government Chair
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Nevin Taylor
Government Chair
United States Consumer Protection Safety Commission
Ron Schmelzer
Analyst Chair
Kathleen Walch
Analyst Chair
Reuven Kaswin
Industry Vice Chair
Aerospike, Inc.
Ryan Branon
Industry Vice Chair
IBM
Working Group Project Teams
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.
Bill Bunce
Project Team Chair
Automation Anywhere
Jim Hathaway
Industry Vice Chair
JTek Data Solutions
Dirk Barrineau
Industry Vice Chair
U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs
Value Proposition of AI/ML and Data 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
United States Consumer Protection Safety Commission
Jeff Hyacinthe
Government Vice Chair
General Services Administration
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
General Services Administration
Seth Clark
Industry Chair
Modzy
Maeva Ghonda
Advisor Chair
Quantum Institute
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
Veterans Affairs
Doug Natal
Industry Chair
AI and Data Policy Including Standards Project Team
This project team will examine standard data, interoperability, trustworthiness, autonomy, algorithms, and expectations as it relates to AI and ML.
Ken Farber
Industry Chair
TekSynap
Predictive Analytics
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!
Chakib Chraibi
Government Chair
National Technical Information Service
Malio West
Industry Chair
Global Accounting
Sadia Syeda
MITRE Chair
MITRE