Category: Thought Leadership

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the landscape of federal government operations. As technology advances at an extraordinary pace, AI is becoming essential in addressing complex challenges, enhancing decision-making, improving public services, and driving innovation.

AI is being strategically integrated across various federal agencies. Tech experts are revolutionizing the way agencies leverage AI by designing, building, and implementing a framework leveraging the power of AI in a meaningful and responsible way. In 2023, the president issued the landmark Executive Order 14110, “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.” The budget provides over $3 billion across agencies to responsibly develop, test, procure, and integrate transformative AI applications across the federal government and supports the implementation of the administration’s executive order (whitehouse.gov, 2024).

Here’s a closer look at how Pivotal uses AI to empower government leaders to rethink, refresh, and reimagine how AI can advance their mission.

Overview

A HUBZone (Historically Underutilized Business Zone) is a program created and maintained by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to promote economic development and employment growth in distressed areas by providing access to federal contracting opportunities. The HUBZone program aims to stimulate economic growth and increase employment in these areas.

HUBZone Program Qualifications

– The business must be based in a designated HUBZone
– Must be majority-owned by a U.S. citizen
– At least 35% of its employees reside in a HUBZone
– Meet the SBA’s size standards for small businesses based on industry classification
– Maintain the SBA HUBZone-Certified status through an annual recertification process

Socioeconomic Impact

The SBA promotes increased utilization of SBA-certified small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals through several programs that stimulate economic empowerment, job creation, and a thriving business landscape within historically disadvantaged communities.
Federal agencies set new records for contracting with small businesses in fiscal 2023, awarding 28.4% of all eligible federal contract dollars to women-owned small businesses, small businesses, serviced-disabled small businesses, and HUBZone-certified businesses (Miller, 2024). The VA, IRS, and CMS intend to award 3% of their eligible contract dollars to HUBZone-certified businesses while the Army has a more specific goal of 1.76% (Army.mil, 2024). If you’re interested in learning more about how well federal agencies performed toward their small business contracting goals in 2023, check out the FY2023 Small Business Procurement Scorecard.

As a company, we understand the importance of showing respect and kindness to others. Our core value, People Matter, demonstrates that we embrace and celebrate each individual. We know that each team member’s unique ideas and contributions are the cornerstones of our success and the success of our clients.

Pivotal is committed to creating a positive environment. We do this by maintaining open and effective lines of communication with everyone involved in a project, including our federal clients. Our diverse teams make us stronger as a company. We encourage everyone to be confident and speak freely as we explore and create new technologies. This level of respect and kindness drives us to develop the cutting-edge solutions we are known for creating.

 

Pivotal is a very diverse group, but our team members do have one thing in common. We are driven by the pursuit of excellence and the excitement of innovating and creating new technologies. As a team,  we develop solutions that have major, positive impacts on our client’s success. We love the process of discovering, developing, and introducing cutting-edge solutions to our clients.

We promote a work environment that encourages our team to explore the latest trends and technologies. This strengthens our team members’ commitment to honoring our core value, Catalyst for Transformation. We encourage them to extend exploration beyond their current projects. The goal is for them to stay current on the latest research. To enable them to use their findings to gain new insights and inspire unique solutions.

Each day presents a chance to elevate our workplace for our teams and provide cutting-edge solutions that empower our clients. This is why we continuously seek ways to be smarter, faster, and more agile. We do this by ensuring we have a positive, collaborative environment for our team members so they can develop cutting-edge, intuitive solutions that stand up to our core value, Excellence In All That We Do. 

If there’s a better way to achieve a task or enhance efficiency, we are always open to exploring that idea. We are all on this journey together and continually searching for the best ways to innovate and progress to new levels of success, creating a better workplace for our team members to deliver the best work in the industry.