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  1. Biden Inks Bill to Create FAA NOTAM Task Force
    President Biden signed the NOTAM Improvement Act into law over the weekend, which requires the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish a task force to provide recommendations for improvement of the agency’s Notices to Air Missions (NOTAM) system.
  1. White House Nominates Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse to Lead DIA
  2. VA’s Morton: Deliberate Pace can Yield Better CX Results
  3. Rep. Waltz Calls for Special Committee on AI, More Regulation
  4. CRS: Congress Should Consider Data Privacy in Generative AI Regulation
  5. DoD CIO Tweaks Digital Tech Acquisition Guide, With Cloud Emphasis
  6. Federal Agencies Making Strides Toward Sustainability and Climate Action

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  1. Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA Thomas Keller Appointed Acting Director of DISA’s JP2 Cyber Center
    The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has appointed Thomas Keller to serve as acting chief for the agency’s Joint Service Provider (JP2) Cyber Security Center.
  1. How the Agriculture Department is Reimagining Customer Experience
  2. VA Nominee: Fixing EHR System is Number One Priority
  3. OSTP’s Denice Ross Promoted to U.S. Deputy CTO
  4. Navy Acting CTO Moving Over to DHS
  1. President Biden Names FCC Nominees, Pushing for Democratic Majority
  2. MeriTalk Q&A: Dell’s Kelsey Details Company’s New Global ZT Project
  3. DHA Taps Long Pham to Lead New Health Tech Innovation Office
  4. MeriTalk Salutes the 2023 Cyber Defenders at Cyber Smoke

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  1. Space NASA Satellites Pentagon Ramping up Sensory Capabilities for UFO Detection
    The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is ramping up its abilities to sense and track unidentified flying objects (UFOs)  – otherwise referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) – as part of its ongoing mandate to investigate the presence of those phenomena in the air, sea, space, or on land.
  1. U.S. Army Looking for Industry Help on Cloud Resellers
  2. OPM Notching Some Progress Against GAO Priority Recs
  3. SBA OIG Ranks IT, Fraud Among top Challenges
  4. GSA’s Hashmi: Login.gov Adoption Curve Heading Up
  1. Feds Optimizing 5G to Deploy New Comms Capabilities
  2. White House, EU Tech Council Report AI Tech Progress
  3. MeriTalk Q&A: Amy Gilliland Maps GDIT’s New Tech Investment Strategy
  4. Lawmakers Seek to Balance Economic, Tech Interests with China

Policy

  1. Budget Federal spending Debt Ceiling Bill Wraps up, Skinny Fed Civ Budgets Come Next
    The Senate late on June 1 voted to approve the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, which would increase the national debt limit through early 2025 and avoid the government hitting its borrowing limit early next week.
  1. Federal Contractors Now Covered by TikTok Ban
  2. DISA Unveils Workforce Initiative to Meet ‘Pacing Challenge’
  3. Senate Bill Aims to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Abraham Accords
  4. Senate Pledges Speedy Action on Debt Ceiling Bill
  1. NIST Releases New Vulnerability Management Guideline
  2. Pentagon Sends Classified 2023 Cyber Strategy to Congress
  3. House Oversight Republicans Hammer Away on Telework Rates
  4. House Okays Bill to Cement Popular VA Tech Training Program