“We need to have practices that encourage and enable us to take advantage of those technologies, but we have to do it in a responsible manner, so that we’re not exposing ourselves to unnecessary national security risks or human rights challenges,” said Mathew Blum, associate administrator for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, at a Brookings Institute event on federal acquisitions.
More than 95% of over $1 billion in recent federal expenditures associated with AI went to professional, scientific and technical services, according to a report the Brookings Institute published last year…
OFPP and the U.S. Digital Service launched the [Digital IT Acquisition Professional Training Program] in 2016 to train contracting professionals on executing digital service procurements. Last year, the Office of Management and Budget began requiring all contracting professionals assigned to digital services acquisitions above $7 million to have the certification associated with DITAP from the Federal Acquisition Institute.
The program has provided training to more than 1,000 employees across the federal government, according to Blum, with trainees becoming “leaders in the use of many innovative modern design practices,” like agile acquisitions and methodologies, as well user-centered and data-driven design processes… Read the full article here.
