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COMMENTARY


The current workforce will need to be retrained to integrate and work with emerging technologies.


Innovation is a future vision delivered. As outlined above, the six emerging technol- ogies exist right now, and four of the six are already being used in diverse federal government applications. I’m advocat- ing that we think bigger by harnessing the capacity and creativity of industry and government to move the procure- ment business model forward into the 21st century. We are on the verge of intelligent contracting, but we must all work together to bring this vision to life.


VISION I became interested in intelligent-agent technology a few years ago when I entered a contest and developed an idea called the Federal Multi-Agent System. It is a plat- form that connects all federal executive agencies in a system whereby intelligent agents (an army of Siris or Google Assis- tants) would execute the millions of daily services required by citizens from the government every day, such as applying for a passport, renewing a driver’s license or paying taxes. Citizens would have the ability to deploy personalized intelli- gent agents anytime, anywhere and for any legitimate service provided by the government.


I believe that intelligent agents can increase speed and accuracy and decrease the cost of executing contract actions across the federal government, under the direction of AI, operating within a government cloud architecture, using data from millions of historical contract actions, leveraging smart contract technology as the contract instrument and using blockchain to secure the transaction. Let’s look at how these


emerging technologies are currently being used and then apply them to the federal procurement space.


PROCUREMENT NOW: WE CAN DO BETTER Federal procurement is a defined market whereby customers (requiring activities) engage market ing agencies)


procurement ecosystem that puts the best emerging technologies into the hands of a trained and ready workforce, thus creat- ing value for stakeholders throughout the federal government.


facilitators (contract- to initiate agreements


with suppliers (government contractors) via a transparent and secure market- place (beta.sam.gov, which includes the former Federal Business Opportunities) for goods and services to be delivered at specific dates in the future. Te current federal procurement business model has served us well over many decades and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. However, by leveraging these six emerging technologies (see Figure 1), the method of contract delivery and execution can be made more transparent, more effi- cient and more cost-effective. What new technology do we have available right now or in the near future that could disrupt the current contracting business model? Since the government is often slow to adopt new technologies, we are most likely a few years away from seeing the convergence of these technologies in the procurement domain; however, it is worth the effort to look at what might be possible.


Te next section will cover the vision for the future of procurement that includes the development, integration and deployment of the intelligent contracting platform across the federal government. Te end state of this vision will be a relevant, cost-effective and technology-enabled


PROCUREMENT FUTURE: IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES Te three primary technologies—cloud computing, AI and big data—must be developed and integrated to provide a robust infrastructure for the intelligent- contracting platform. Te government would need to establish a dedicated cloud architecture that could support AI, big data, intelligent agents, smart contracts and blockchain capabilities. Te intelli- gent contracting platform would operate within a cloud computing infrastructure similar to the cloud services provided by Amazon Web Services to the world’s larg- est commercial enterprises. By initiating a contract with a leading cloud provider to host the cloud computing infrastructure, the government also would have the ability to quickly scale the intelligent contracting concept at a reasonable cost. AI, combined with data from existing government data centers and intelligent agents, will provide an advanced way to automate the procure- ment process by finding data, analyzing the data, making recommendations and providing predictive analysis to assist humans in making procurement decisions that are in the best interest of the govern- ment. For example (see Figure 2, Page 151), after a contracting professional receives a requirements package, the AI will assist by analyzing data from historical contract actions, solicit the requirement through the government marketplace, assist with


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