With artificial intelligence (AI) use accelerating across government, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging federal agencies to share their experiences with the technology to inform future AI procurements. […]

Nico Ojeda is Vice President of Digital Services at Element Solutions and President of the Digital Services Coalition (DSC), where he leads efforts to modernize how governments buy and deliver digital services. Nico began his career supporting the U.S. House of Representatives and spent a decade in federal service, including roles at the U.S. Treasury […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) is planning the next iteration of its massive SmartPay charge card program, which supports roughly 4.2 million federal cardholders and nearly $40 billion in annual spending.   […]

The Trump administration wants to significantly cut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) stakeholder engagement program and eliminate almost 900 agency positions under its fiscal year (FY) budget 2027 request.  […]

The Trump administration proposed hundreds of millions in cuts to key science and technology-related agencies in its fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget proposal, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).   […]

The House failed to vote Thursday morning on a bipartisan plan unanimously passed by the Senate last week to reopen most components of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) while omitting funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and parts of Customs and Border Protection.   […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) dropped its investigation into employees who administered a polygraph test taken by the agency’s former acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala.  […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown is now the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history. The shutdown leaves thousands of federal employees working without pay while Congress takes a two-week recess. […]

A broad-based collection of trade and interest groups and government employee unions is asking members of the House and Senate to get behind bipartisan legislation that would make sure federal workers, service members, active-duty reservists, and covered contractors are paid “during any lapse in appropriations.” […]

The Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) is losing workers as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown continues, the agency’s acting director, Nick Andersen, told Congress on Wednesday.  […]

A congressman who is influential on homeland security matters is asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by violent extremists and other illicit actors, saying it poses “a broad and evolving national security threat.” […]

The Senate confirmed Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as its new secretary in a vote of 54-45 on Monday night.   […]

The Department of Defense (DOD), alongside federal partners, issued a stern warning Friday to drone operators about the potential consequences of flying unmanned aerial systems (UAS) – or drones – in restricted airspace. […]

Hemant Baidwan has departed as chief information security officer (CISO) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after more than 15 years at the agency. He joined Knox Systems on Monday as executive CISO. […]

The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted 8-7 this morning to advance Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s, R-Okla., nomination to the full Senate, setting up a confirmation vote on whether he will become the next homeland security secretary after President Donald Trump ousted Kristi Noem.  […]

Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., and four other House Democrats are asking federal watchdogs to investigate how officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) handled polygraph tests taken by the agency’s former acting director, Madu Gottumukkala.  […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Monday that an ongoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown will probably delay the final Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA) rule.   […]

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is leaving the department and being replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla. […]

Cybersecurity leaders are on high alert following the United States’ escalating action in the Middle East and are warning that Iran-linked actors could increase cyber activity targeting vulnerable systems and critical infrastructure.    […]

Bob Costello announced today that he is leaving his role at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as chief information officer (CIO) and stepping away from federal service after more than two decades in government.  […]

Madhu Gottumukkala is departing as the interim leader of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), with current agency executive director for cybersecurity Nick Andersen stepping in as the agency’s acting director. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive on Wednesday calling on federal civilian agencies to take immediate steps to secure Cisco Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WAN) systems. […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been officially shut down since funding ran out at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, constraining agencies such as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and delaying key cybersecurity initiatives. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is holding a series of virtual town hall meetings to hear feedback on a rule that requires critical infrastructure companies to report major cyber incidents to the federal government.   […]

Leaders from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the U.S. Secret Service warned representatives Wednesday that a lapse in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding would cause long-term disruptions to planned technology upgrades and delays in cybersecurity incident reporting.  […]

The House on Tuesday passed a spending package to end a short-term partial government shutdown and fund most federal agencies through the end of the fiscal year.  […]

While Congress expects the partial government shutdown to be short, the disruption has already triggered a cybersecurity consequence: the lapse of two cornerstone federal authorities that support cyber threat information sharing and state and local cyber defense funding. […]

Law enforcement agencies dominate the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) latest update to its artificial intelligence (AI) use-case database, and many those use cases employ biometrics and data analysis.   […]

The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was given permission to use ChatGPT last summer, despite a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) prohibition on the tool for most employees.  […]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants information from industry on commercial off-the-shelf big data and advertising technology (ad tech) tools to support ICE investigations.  […]