Lewis Shepherd

America’s AI Action Plan is a blueprint for jump-starting federal AI investment in R&D and collaboration with the private sector. It focuses on accelerating American leadership across research, development, adoption, and use of cutting-edge AI. This is important and timely, given the emergence and acceleration of Frontier AI models. The plan offers 90-plus recommendations for […]

A missile is detected over the Pacific Ocean. A global network of integrated sensors in space, on land, and under the sea track the event. The C2 Battle Management & Command System identifies the missile, tracks its trajectory towards North America, and launches the counter measures to intercept the threat. This is the vision of […]

As the new year started, the Federal government also kickstarted a new era of IT modernization. A series of new policy initiatives, focusing mainly on AI, security, and updated acquisition look to reshape government IT towards the goal of delivering efficiencies and better services for the American people. Government at the Speed of Business Removal […]

For any government agency, unpredictability is a central challenge. We are now discovering that nowhere is that more true than in building and securing AI infrastructure. The extraordinary complexity of federal agency IT architectures and the external threats to those architectures pose distinct challenges to any security modernization effort. Like most enterprises, these are likely […]