The General Services Administration expects that its new partnership with the Pentagon\u2019s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will ultimately lead to significant benefits for civilian agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The GSA is working with JAIC, which was established last year to speed up AI adoption across the Pentagon, to accelerate the center\u2019s process by adding AI into acquisition work, which GSA officials said they hope to turn around and offer civilian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re able to utilize a lot of that educational material [and] best practices that they\u2019re getting and scale it up, standardize it in a sense so it can be spread among civilian agencies,\u201d said Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi, acquisition lead at the GSA Centers of Excellence, speaking Dec. 5 at the GovernmentCIO AI and RPA in Government conference. “All of the AI that we\u2019re procuring for them, we\u2019re also hoping to procure for ourselves,\u201d Ghaffari-Tabrizi added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One frustration with the acquisition process is the time it takes from the start of the project to the end. By adding AI into the JAIC\u2019s acquisition process, the goal is to deliver capabilities to support the war fighter quicker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTechnology changes so rapidly that there needs to be a way in the acquisition space to speed that up,\u201d said Michelle McNellis, acquisition lead at the GSA Centers of Excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
McNellis said that the two groups are currently just in the beginning stages and \u201cstrategizing internally.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The work between the GSA and DoD is a significant step, Ghaffari-Tabrizi said, because the pair are moving beyond AI processes and shifting the discussion to developing tools. He also said that looking at AI for acquisition professionals is a new, but important, approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re so busy trying to satisfy the mission of our project teams that we haven\u2019t been able to have the opportunity to step back and look at what do we need to continue working to support our team members,” Ghaffari-Tabrizi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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