GSA Offers More Details on Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence

The General Services Administration is making artificial intelligence the sixth pillar of its Centers of Excellence program, and agency leaders are already teasing a few of their potential areas of focus. The new AI center will be rooted in GSA's work with the Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, which last month became the fifth government organization to participate in the CoE initiative. After helping the JAIC accelerate its development of AI technologies and increase the Pentagon's adoption of those tools, GSA officials see the opportunity to reapply that work to help the rest of the government reap the benefits of the emerging tech. "We can learn from [the JAIC partnership] … and frankly, we can reuse all that foundation for our existing agencies and agencies outside the Department of Defense," Anil Cheriyan, head of GSA's Technology Transformation Service, said Tuesday during the agency's IT Modernization Showcase. "The need for artificial intelligence is growing and significant across federal government."