The Department of the Treasury is on the hunt for information on the latest and greatest artificial intelligence-powered coding assistant and chatbot technology.

Late last month, the department issued a draft solicitation seeking comment from qualified providers that could meet the needs of a proposed — but unofficial — procurement of “state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant tools (similar to GitHub Copilot, AWS CodeWhisperer, Cursor, etc.) and AI-based chat tools (similar to ChatGPT) that can be delivered as a shared service across the Department and its bureaus.”

In a draft statement of work accompanying the solicitation, Treasury says the AI coding-assistant tool would “support the software development lifecycle by enhancing developer productivity, improving code quality, and accelerating delivery through features such as code generation, completion, debugging, and refactoring.” The tool should also work in a wide range of programming languages, such as “TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, C++, Go, SQL, Bash, PowerShell, COBOL, and PeopleCode,” the draft says.

Along with that, the AI chat assistant it envisions would be “capable of natural language understanding and generation to support a wide range of knowledge work and user interactions” for use on tasks like “summarization, content drafting, question answering, policy interpretation, process explanation, and knowledge retrieval.”