INDEPENDENT RESEARCH / PRACTICE NOTES
This is my working notebook on AI engineering, strategy, knowledge infrastructure, organizational transformation, and the human systems that determine whether innovation becomes real capability.
The notes range from emerging research questions to practical operating models. Some will become papers, tools, talks, or products. Others are here because thinking improves when it is made visible.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued guidance to federal agencies, outlining various incentives to effectively attract and retain AI professionals. This announcement follows OPM’s authorization of direct-hire authority for AI roles in December.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has released new guidance directing agencies to capitalize on existing workplace flexibilities when recruiting federal artificial intelligence (AI) professionals. These flexibilities include offering pay bonuses, faster leave accrual, and telework options.
Ten nations, including the U.S., Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Sweden, South Korea, Japan, and the U.K., have advanced shared principles for the research and development of 6G wireless communication systems in a joint statement. These principles reinforce the vital need for security, cooperation, affordability, sustainability, and global connectivity. The original article can be found here.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has announced that the demand for leading-edge logic chips, which is driven by artificial intelligence systems, is being addressed by the Department of Commerce through its investments under the CHIPS for America program. This is in line with its implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act. The original article can be found here .
The U.S. Army is currently crafting a broad but adaptable strategy aimed at guiding responsible adoption and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) across its services, according to new details released by DefenseScoop.
The AI revolution is expanding its reach beyond known territories into new realms, primarily the space domain. While the impacts and applications of AI are being widely explored in areas like cybersecurity, data management, and customer experience, top contenders in the government contracting industry are beginning to evaluate the potential of space as a fertile ground for automation and unmanned systems.
In a noteworthy initiative towards bolstering privacy-preserving technologies, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has joined hands with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a new Research Coordination Network (RCN). Designed to support the research, development, and production of Privacy-enhancing Technologies (PETs), this initiative is a part of the governmental measures under the executive order for the responsible and trustworthy use of artificial intelligence (AI).
In a bid to advance its military asset identification capabilities, Preligens, a Paris-based firm, is now seeking to process video footage captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The objective is to detect assets deployed by Russia and China more effectively.