If you ask Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor how he thinks about the role of AI in his agency\u2019s mission, he\u2019ll tell you he sees two different prevailing perspectives: one with a \u201cbig OPM\u201d mission and another for \u201clittle OPM.\u201d At least that\u2019s how he described it to me recently at UiPath\u2019s Fusion conference in Washington, DC. During our interview, Kupor shared about juxtaposition, emerging AI use cases that OPM is driving forward, and much more.<\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security intends to continue its work with Cellebrite,<\/a> a provider of digital forensics hardware and software tools, according to forecast documents released last week. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as the department\u2019s Homeland Security Investigations unit, plan to award a five-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with a $100 million ceiling to the vendor later this year. Cellebrite\u2019s products enable the agency to access data from cellphones, tablets and \u2014 more recently \u2014 unmanned aerial vehicles. The Israeli firm\u2019s data extraction capabilities are \u201cthe most widely utilized and deployed computer forensic tool\u201d within HSI, per the document. Cellebrite has been deployed across DHS, including its reported use within the Secret Service to break into the phone of the man who shot President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., in 2024.<\/p>\n DOGE\u2019s playbook for using artificial intelligence to eliminate regulations was on full display at the Department of Housing and Urban Development last summer<\/a> with the introduction of an AI tool built for the \u201cextermination\u201d of federal housing rules. Documents obtained by Democracy Forward via Freedom of Information Act requests reveal a PowerPoint presentation delivered at HUD on SweetREX, a tool named for DOGE associate Christopher Sweet, according to Wired reporting last August. The new documents, shared with FedScoop, laid out a multistep process in which all HUD regulations would be analyzed by the AI. The tool would then provide recommendations to \u201ckeep, delete, or partial delete\u201d each rule, per the presentation. Attorneys would review the suggestions and agency staffers would make the final decision. HUD regulations cover everything from the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex in mortgage assistance to providing legal aid for foreclosure-related issues.<\/p>\n The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast\u00a0\u00a0on\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0Soundcloud<\/a>,\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you ask Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor how he thinks about the role of AI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,111,22759,313,9777,625,7648,781,4862,1138],"class_list":["post-36239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-cellebrite","tag-cybersecurity","tag-doge","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal","tag-tech","tag-white-house","tag-workforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}