Emerging tech offices come together on long-term plan to combat coronavirus`




Federal Drive with Tom Temin show

Summary: The White House launched a task force this week giving coronavirus researchers access to the gvernment’s supercomputers. This task force brings together more than 300 petaflops of computing capacity to run simulations that aid epidemiologists. The Energy Department is at the center. But that’s only part of the agency’s artificial intelligence portfolio. For what other AI challenges DOE is going after, Federal News Network's Jory Heckman spoke to the director of its A-I and Technology Office, Cheryl Ingstad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices