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- President-elect Trump’s decision to appoint a prominent Silicon Valley investor to oversee Federal artificial intelligence (AI) policy points to changes that may be coming in how the government approaches its use of the technology – including what is expected to be a looser regulatory style and a possible repeal or modification of President Biden’s AI executive order (EO).
- Senate DOGE Leader Ernst Leading Charge to Limit Fed Telework
- FCC Pushing Telcos to Certify Security Amid Salt Typhoon Hacks
- Rep. Swalwell to Trump: Don’t Cut CISA Funding
- Pentagon Unveils Strategy to Counter Drones
- Senators Look to Create AI, Cloud Service Competition at DoD
- Army G-6 Appoints new Director of Network C4 Systems
People
- Maj. Gen. Luke Cropsey has been nominated to lead the Air Force’s upcoming Information Dominance Systems Center, according to a Pentagon announcement.
Progress
- A pair of bipartisan senators is pushing for the investigation of the Defense Department’s (DoD) “failure to secure its unclassified telephone communications from foreign espionage,” according to a letter sent Wednesday to DoD Inspector General Robert Storch.
Federal agencies are working to harness the power of generative AI (GenAI) through the testing and implementation of large language models (LLM).
Policy
- The House voted on Wednesday to approve bipartisan legislation that aims to improve the management of how the Federal government purchases and uses software.