Project 38: The Future Of Federal Contracting

Generative artificial intelligence is only the newest example of how federal agencies have different comfort levels with adopting new technologies and in this instance, intelligence agencies appear to be bolder in charting their path forward.Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for GovExec's publications including us, wrote a deep dive article earlier this month that includes his conversations with some intelligence community leaders on where their agencies are at in Gen AI.In this episode, Frank tells our Ross Wilkers all about what they told him and what else he found in putting together that story to explore what IC agencies are up to in Gen AI and their grander visions for the technology.As you will hear from Frank, they want to go fast and also be thoughtful about mitigating some of the risks in doing so.The US intelligence community is embracing generative AIThe CIA is taking a ‘crawl, walk, run’ approach to GenAI2023 was just the start of generative AI’s rise, government and industry leaders sayProceed with c