By Jason Roys

When MIT artificial intelligence researcher Regina Barzilay received a breast cancer diagnosis in 2014, her first questions revolved around concerns for her son and her own survival. But soon she asked, “Why couldn’t this have been diagnosed sooner?”  

Her question led to the development of one of the first AI-based systems for early detection…

By Jason Roys

Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, or ChatGPT as it's commonly known, is a large language model (LLM) tool that is all over the news. And there's no shortage of opinions on it, too — everything from it's a wonderful writing asset to it's the progenitor of the robot apocalypse. ChatGPT, by tapping into billions of bytes of public web data, can generate compelling text based on contextual prompts. When a user prompts this artificial intelligence with statements and questions, it creates replies in human-like, natural language. And with every code update, it gets better and better. 

By Jason Roys

In the late 1990s, the U.S. government invested $3.5 billion in the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with the goal of achieving nuclear fusion — a cherished cause for energy researchers because it promises a carbon-free, emissions-free future.

By Jason Roys

In this article, we’ll review some of the exciting healthcare technology trends we’re seeing now and down the road.  

By Jason Roys

The healthcare industry’s integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies lags other sectors, according to research published in 2022 by the Brookings Institution. Technological, bureaucratic, and regulatory obstacles have hampered integration, the study said.

Meanwhile…

By Jason Roys

To understand the value of big data and data analytics in government, look no further than the recent gains Ukraine’s warfighters have made against Russian forces. As an ally of Ukraine, the U.S. Army is applying its war-fighting platform — its cloud, data, analytics and artificial intelligence — to support Ukraine’s battlefield strategy.  

By Kim Waiyaboon

Military service offers some of the best career training in the world, not only in technical specialties, but also in so-called “soft” skills such as leadership, decision-making, dependability and attention to detail.

But the tens of thousands of active-duty service members who enter the civilian workforce each year sometimes find the transition difficult…

By Jason Roys

“Zero trust” is a bad thing in personal relationships, but when it comes to cybersecurity, it’s a must.

As cybercrime becomes ever more sophisticated, it’s no longer enough to secure a network perimeter to fend off an attack. The U.S. government and many large companies are adopting a zero trust security model, a set of security policies and practices that treats every component, service and user of a system as potentially compromised and …

By Jason Roys

Whether a business is looking to win a government contract or grow revenues by winning more, a government contract consultant can help along the way.

By Jason Roys

There’s an old business saw – a joke really – that goes like this: “Price. Service. Quality. Choose any two.” The underlying truth for a lot of businesses is that when they prioritize price and service, quality suffers. And when they focus on quality, price and service suffer.

By Jason Roys

We live in a world of burgeoning technology. We use our personal devices daily. We work with computers in our jobs. We bank online. But we don’t always consider the work that cybersecurity consulting firms do to protect our personal data, our privacy and our finances.

By Jason Roys

A software consultant can be a valuable asset to a business – especially if a company wants to use technology to stay relevant and streamlined. But when is it time to start looking for one?

By Jason Roys

There is often a moment when leadership, which was supposedly out front, is forced to catch up. That might be what’s happening as Agile project management for government agencies picks up steam. The Project Management Institute notes that “problems that public agencies are being asked to address often are interconnected and do not have clear, direct solutions.” That necessitates the need for a “process of trial and error to determine what works.” Government agencies are finding success with Agile, a …

By Kim Waiyaboon

Does an organization really need to hire a project manager, adding another layer of management into its regular work? A business owner might think that if everyone does their jobs properly, there's no need to invest money in the title of project manager.