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Congress Still Near Square One on Possible AI Regulation As the pros and cons of emerging generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have become a hot topic of policy debate in recent months, Congress appears to be just lining up at the starting gate with its own efforts to explore possible regulation of the technology.
- VA’s DelBene: Contractors Playing Integral Innovation Role
- GAO: Pentagon Must Reassess GPS Modernization
- VA Leaning on Tech, Hiring to Deal with Claims Backlog
- USAID Awards $329M Cyber Contract to Accenture
- NIH Looking to Strengthen Data in Cancer Moonshot Effort
- Industry Partnerships Critical to CIA Mission, Intel Official Says
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NIST Sets CHIPS Research and Development Leadership Team The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced new leadership to head the agency’s CHIPS Research and Development Office as part of the Federal government’s larger efforts to reinvigorate semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S.
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75% of Data Breaches Involve Human Error, Annual Verizon Report Says It’s time for businesses to start people-proofing their systems. According to Verizon’s 16th Annual Data Breach Investigations Report released today, 74 percent of all breaches include the human element through error, privilege misuse, social engineering, or use of stolen credentials.

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OMB Needs to Kick-Start Action on Federal Data Strategy, ITIF Argues The Biden administration and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) need to take several big steps to reinvigorate action on the 2021 Federal Data Strategy (FDS) in order to realize the strategy’s goals, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) think tank argues in a new report.