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DHS Turning To AI-Based Tools For Market Research

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 7th, 2023

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DHS Turning To AI-Based Tools For Market Research

DHS Chief Procurement Officer Paul Courtney. Photo: DHS

The Department of Homeland Security’s acquisition workforce has been using artificial intelligence-based tools to help grasp the state of the commercial market space for various products and is looking to make wider use of these capabilities, the department’s top procurement official said on Tuesday. These software tools have been used by procurement and program staff to gather open source data from existing government databases such as Sam.gov, the Federal Procurement Data System and others “to quickly give users a view…

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