The General Services Administration (GSA) is looking to expand the scope of GSAi – the agency’s internal generative AI tool – to support other Federal agencies facing the same GenAI problem set. […]
The White House and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) unveiled sweeping data initiatives on Wednesday with the launch a program to let Americans share medical records across privately-owned apps while consolidating HHS data into a single database. […]
Amy Henninger, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon’s Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) directorate, outlined a tech-centric vision for the future of defense testing during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee today. […]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is demanding answers from the Pentagon after revelations earlier this month that Microsoft used China-based engineers to work on sensitive U.S. military systems. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) said today that it reached terms with Docusign for steep price discounts to Federal agencies on two of the firm’s product plans under GSA’s OneGov initiative. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an Eviction Strategies Tool on July 30 to help cyber defenders better respond to cyber incidents. […]
Federal agency use cases for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies rose sharply last year, signaling increased interest in GenAI tech deployments across the 11 agencies reviewed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a new report. […]
In Congress’s latest attempt to regulate artificial intelligence, House and Senate lawmakers are reintroducing legislation to promote public-private collaboration on testing financial sector AI systems. […]
The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee voted 22-6 today to advance the nomination of Paul Roberti to be Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). […]
The White House’s newly issued AI Action Plan looks to cement U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence, but White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Michael Kratsios said on Wednesday that the “ultimate solution” to win the AI race requires Congress. […]
After nearly five decades of public service – 24 in military uniform and the last 19 with U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) – Michael Clark has announced it is time to “power down”. […]
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted today to approve the nomination of Sean Plankey to become the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed an artificial intelligence tool to analyze gene data sets that the agency says is highly accurate and does not carry the risk of hallucinations. […]
Federal Chief Information Officer Greg Barbaccia has been appointed to the additional position of Federal chief AI officer as the Trump administration begins work executing on the ambitious agenda laid out in the AI Action Plan released by the White House on July 23. […]
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns that the Defense Department (DoD) lacks sufficient visibility into its sprawling supplier base, leaving the U.S. military vulnerable to foreign dependency risks that could undermine national security. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with Annamary Holbrook, director of federal solutions consulting at Workday, a provider of human capital and financial management system software, to discuss the risks of custom-built systems, the advantages of agile platforms, and how configurability can help agencies take control of their modernization journeys. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that the Trump administration has violated the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 by withholding billions of dollars in funds that were congressionally approved. […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is receiving a $14.6 million award from the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) to build a cloud-based and artificial intelligence-powered data analytics platform. […]
A Federal judge has blocked the Department of Defense (DoD) from enforcing a new policy that would limit indirect cost reimbursements for higher education institutions to 15 percent. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) said today it plans to launch its new GO.gov travel management system for all Federal civilian agencies in November. […]
The U.S. Space Systems Command (SSC) has activated two new units to streamline collaboration between the U.S. Space Force’s acquisition professionals and system operators with the aim of advancing ongoing efforts for missile warning and space-based sensing and targeting. […]
Timothy Bunning, chief technology officer of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), has announced his retirement after30 years of work with the Air Force. […]
Two former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) officials are looking to continue their efforts on Secure by Design outside of the agency with new gigs at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST). […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) FedRAMP 20x initiative has announced its first four authorizations since the 20x revamp effort was unveiled on March 24. […]
President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan released on July 23 issues a warning to states that create their own regulations for artificial intelligence technologies by saying those states should not be recipients of Federal government AI-related funding going forward. […]
A new report published on Monday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that the Social Security Administration (SSA) is failing to properly oversee $2 billion – or 90 percent – of its annual IT budget, raising concerns about the agency’s ability to manage its IT portfolio effectively. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is launching an 18-month transition to replace its legacy DS Logon authentication system in favor of a new platform – dubbed myAuth – which aims to simplify and secure login access across military and veteran networks for about 20 million users. […]
Veterans living in rural America are being left behind by Federal healthcare systems due to shortages of robust broadband services and limited telehealth access, lawmakers and witnesses warned on July 25 during a field hearing of the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization. […]
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) will be using artificial intelligence tools to accelerate its development of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) that will help power AI data centers autonomously. […]
The director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) said last week that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) must go “back to basics” and re-center its work around creating artificial intelligence standards. […]