The State Department is working to develop a new artificial intelligence marketplace that would deliver specialized AI capabilities to its employees across the agency, Nextgov/FCW reported Friday.
Matthew Graviss, chief data and artificial intelligence officer at the State Department, said the agency expects the planned AI marketplace to serve as a flexible vehicle for approved AI software offerings.
Why Does the State Department Need an AI Marketplace?
According to the report, the marketplace will initially address the model and data requirements for specific use cases and AI guardrails to help ensure security for the department’s end users.
“You have chief information officers, chief data officers throughout various bureaus of the State Department who we want to help in accelerating their modernization through artificial intelligence,” Graviss stated.
“So what we’re going through right now is those requirements of ‘What can we do as an enterprise provider to help them accelerate their journey? How do we support them in allowing them to connect their data, their workflow, to AI tools so that they can gain efficiency and effectiveness in servicing their missions, their ambassadors [and] their diplomats overseas?'” he added.
