Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Health Care Center

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is touting its most recent Electronic Health Records Modernization (EHRM) program rollout at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (Lovell FHCC) near Chicago as its “most successful deployment” yet. […]

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FedRAMP

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) released a new roadmap today outlining how the program will evolve in the next 18 months, focusing on key goals such as customer experience (CX) and cybersecurity leadership. […]

The U.S. Navy has grown the scope of an ongoing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) pilot program and is putting the pilot through the rigors of testing that one Navy tech executive likened to “throwing rocks” at the program. […]

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is calling for independent audits of high-risk AI systems as part of a series of eight recommendations in its new AI Accountability Policy Report released Wednesday.  […]

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The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today released its finalized policy document for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within Federal agencies, delivering on-time a core component of the administration’s October 2023 AI executive order (EO). […]

A new report from the Treasury Department on how the financial services sector is approaching managing AI-driven cybersecurity risks reveals challenges familiar to many sectors – think workforce, data quality, and funding. But one that stands out from the rest gets down to the very basic level of understanding those risks: reaching broad agreement on what artificial intelligence means, and adopting common terms that will allow for greater understanding of the technology. […]

CISA

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published its long-awaited cyber incident reporting rule today for the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA), requesting public input on the forthcoming regulations. […]

DoD

Over the past week, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) military services and combatant commands have sent their budget “wish lists” to Congress, including several tech-focused programs that failed to make it into the official fiscal year (FY) 2025 defense budget request. […]

As government agencies around the world rapidly adopt modernized technological capabilities, a new report from Deloitte argues that the convergence of these technologies is making it possible for governments to realize outsized improvements in service delivery. […]

Army

As it looks to modernize its software procurement process, the U.S. Army is setting up a digital center of excellence for contracting as well as building a “cell” that can offer expertise specific to large software contracts, according to Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) Leonel Garciga. […]

Cyber workforce

Forty Democratic House lawmakers are urging the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to focus on developing a robust Federal AI workforce as it begins its efforts to implement the Biden administration’s recent AI executive order (EO). […]

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A bipartisan group of House members has introduced legislation that aims to protect Americans from AI generated content – such as deepfakes – during the 2024 election cycle by setting standards, like watermarking, for identifying AI content. […]

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The Department of Defense (DoD) plans to roll out a new roadmap in the coming months that will guide the department in its use of technology to drive business outcomes, a top Pentagon tech official said today. […]

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Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is calling on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to prioritize cybersecurity efforts in the healthcare sector. […]

New legislation introduced in the House by Reps. Clay Higgins, R-La., and Eric Burlison, R-Mo., would put limits on how the IRS can use AI technology – specifically in choosing whose tax returns to audit. […]

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The Department of Defense’s (DoD) acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Sasha Baker, plans to step down from her post by the end of next month, the DoD announced today. […]

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Army

Two top officials from the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) offered updates today to three of CDAO’s key programs that aim to scale AI across the Defense Department (DoD), including AI scaffolding initiatives through Alpha 1, the Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE) series, and how Task Force Lima is helping DoD adopt generative AI. […]

Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Health Care Center

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued three new reports on March 21 revealing that scheduling issues within the VA Electronic Health Records Modernization (EHRM) program contributed to one patient’s death and may continue to affect deployment of the program at other VA facilities. […]

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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. – co-chair of the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus – introduced legislation that would provide financial incentives for healthcare providers to boost their cyber defense by requiring them to meet minimum cybersecurity standards in order to receive accelerated payment in the event of a cyberattack. […]

DoD

The Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded at least 47 task orders under its $9 billion multi-vendor cloud contract and expects to deliver more in the coming year, DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) John Sherman told lawmakers on Friday. […]

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CMS

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is relying on out-of-date and ineffective IT systems to carry out the vital task of managing radio-frequency spectrum use for the Federal government, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report released on March 19. […]

DoD

The fiscal year 2024 Defense Appropriations bill unveiled by the House and Senate Appropriations committees on March 21 boosts defense funding from FY2023 levels but largely splits the difference between last year’s budget and the total that the Biden administration had proposed for the current fiscal year. […]

CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is slated to receive $2.8 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2024 under a government funding package lawmakers unveiled on Thursday – marking a more than $34 million cut from the FY2023 level and leaving some key cybersecurity programs funded at sharp discounts to amounts the White House proposed. […]

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