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IT Remains Feds’ top Challenge for Five Years Running, IGs Report The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) issued a summary today of the top challenges facing Federal agencies, as identified by those agencies’ respective Offices of the Inspector General (OIG) – and once again IT issues headed up the list.
- Hill Gets Input on ‘Biggest Bang’ for Broadband Funding
- Hill Witnesses Argue for Market Forces in Defense Innovation
- House Multi-Cloud Adoption Bill Gets Senate Companion
- New OPM Handbook Promotes Skills-Based Hiring Across Government
- Sen. Wyden Reintroduces AI Bias Bill
- AFRL Seeks Input on Nano, Other Next-Gen Computing Capabilities
People
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Former Air Force CIO Knausenberger Lands at SAIC Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has hired former Air Force Chief Information Officer (CIO) Lauren Knausenberger as the company’s chief innovation officer.
Progress
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TMF Board Member Seeing Zero Trust Demand, Welcomes AI Projects Sheena Burrell, chief information officer at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and a voting board member of the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) run by the General Services Administration (GSA), said today that the fund is seeing a lot of interest from Federal agencies in zero trust security-related projects.

Join us to discuss the myriad opportunities and challenges presented by the growth of AI and ML, and how policy, practical experience, and investments in IT infrastructure and personnel can come together to help agencies make the best use of these powerful technologies.
Policy
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Lawmakers Offer Bill to Revive Office of Tech Assessment Sens. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., and Thom Tills, R-N.C., have reintroduced legislation in the Senate to revive the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) to help members of Congress get a better handle on science and technology issues.