The Defense Department is testing out an artificial intelligence tool to help the agency write contracts and speed up the federal acquisition process.

DOD’s Chief Digital and AI Office is prototyping an AI-powered contract-writing capability, called “Acqbot,” as part of its Tradewind initiative…

Bonnie Evangelista, the Tradewind execution lead within the CDAO, said Wednesday at ATARC’s federal IT modernization summit that AcqBot generates text much like ChatGPT, and is part of Tradewind’s effort to accelerate DOD’s contracting process.

“We have a working prototype. Whether it’s that, or it’s changing people’s mindsets about how you can use acquisition authorities to go faster or to get a better end-state for your user, we’re trying it all, because we want to go after the high-value tasks,” Evangelista during a panel moderated by Federal News Network… Read the full article here.