“The Department of Veterans Affairs is piloting a system for assessing the development of the federal artificial intelligence workforce with more than 30 agencies and organizations outside government, according to Gil Alterovitz, director of the National AI Institute.”
“VA‘s Talent, Education and Assessment Management System (TEAMS) is a whole-of-government, whole-career solution helping find and evaluate AI talent and standardize training with support from the Executive Office of the President.”
“TEAMS builds on the VA’s Talent Management System (TMS) — established in 2012 as the official education, leadership development, learning and training record for employees — with AI talent proving especially hard to find…”
“VA is also using grant funding to attract AI talent and reskill employees as needed.”
“The department recently announced the winners of its latest AI Tech Sprint, many of which are now able to access production-level data. Sprints have an added bonus of helping VA develop faster mechanisms for contracting AI.”
“To that end, the National AI Institute is working with the Veterans Health Administration, Office of Information Technology and VA Cybersecurity and Innovation Program to use something like an other transaction authority to purchase and pilot AI quickly…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA piloting system to find and manage AI talent – By Dave Nyczepir, August 23, 2021. FedScoop.
