On Demand

A key question, of course, is how AI will change government.  In our last show we focused on delivery of government services to citizen and how AI might affect citizen interaction with government and with government employees.  In this show, we want to look at the impact of AI on the internal operations of government itself.  Our sand box (if you will) – government  procurement and acquisition.  The Federal government spends more than $500 billion in the acquisition of goods and services annually.  The numbers are a bit cloudy, but the private sector workforce supporting the Federal government is estimated to be five (5) or more times the size of the number of Federal employees (now a little over two million people).  And, of course, many of the weapons systems, the IT systems, the buildings and roads and infrastructure throughout the country are built by private sector firms, although the funding comes from Washington, DC.