U.S. Navy leaders are emphasizing the urgent need to shift cybersecurity approaches, embrace innovation, train the workforce, and drive cultural change as critical strategies to stay ahead of rapidly evolving technologies and emerging digital threats. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today released a draft of the first federal update to software bill of materials (SBOM) guidance since 2021, covering a new range of use cases, generation processes, and improvements to data quality. […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order launching the “America by Design” initiative – a sweeping effort to patch the federal government’s “digital potholes” and make its websites both easier to use and more aesthetically pleasing. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DOD) Replicator program has delivered hundreds of autonomous drones to warfighters and put thousands more on contract, marking major progress two years after Replicator’s launch, according to officials familiar with the program. […]
As the federal government prepares to enter the fourth quarter of the fiscal year, the General Services Administration (GSA) is planning a governmentwide overhaul of how agencies buy laptops and desktops. […]
Long-time Pentagon technology leader Sharon Woods has landed at Invisible Technologies – a San Francisco-based provider of AI operating systems for enterprise customers – following her departure from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) earlier this month. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is readying to roll out an expanded deployment of its large language model (LLM) Galileo while fully transitioning to the cloud before the end of the year. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking insight from industry for cybersecurity operations, risk management, and compliance support for a potential Military Sealift Command (MSC) Cybersecurity Support Services (CSS) contract. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) will cut its workforce by more than 40% by the end of fiscal year 2025 and reduce its annual budget by over $700 million, the agency announced on Wednesday. […]
Microsoft has announced that it will transition its services and products to meet post-quantum cryptographic standards by 2033 and adopt quantum-safe capabilities by 2029. […]
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has officially launched a new program that is helping travelers with PreCheck get through airport security screening even faster with the help of facial recognition technology. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) said today it reached terms with Google for discounted pricing to federal government agencies for a “Gemini for Government” services suite that includes the Google AI platform, cloud services, and agentic AI solutions. […]
The Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) and Sandia National Laboratories are warning that public and private sector collaborators must work to close the “software understanding” gap to better secure the nation’s systems and infrastructure. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) digital identity verification service Login.gov will now support the use of U.S. passports to verify identities, the agency said today. […]
A new report from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Inspector General (OIG) reveals that while DOE has taken steps to address some previously identified cybersecurity weaknesses, a substantial number of vulnerabilities remain. […]
Artificial intelligence technologies offer a range of benefits to federal agencies, but an official from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Tuesday warned that agencies should not view AI as “the silver bullet that fixes everything.” […]
The U.S. Marine Corps is seeking private-sector support to deliver counter-unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) training for its elite Force Reconnaissance units with an aim to strengthen their ability to detect and defeat drone threats. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has restored a public database that shows how funding is apportioned to Federal agencies after a federal appeals court last week ordered the Trump administration to do so. […]
The Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded a $52 million contract to Booz Allen Hamilton to support a broad range of cybersecurity initiatives, according to contract details that were just publicly released. […]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has relaunched its online guidance portal which features information on procedures across the agency’s environmental programs. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has announced that it is slightly delaying awards for the Polaris Governmentwide Acquisition Contract’s (GWAC) Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone) pool. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) new guidance, released on Aug. 13 for critical infrastructure owners and operators to improve the security of their operational technology (OT), focuses on creating and maintaining comprehensive OT asset inventories and taxonomies. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded a $250 million contract to Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to accelerate technological advancements across U.S. military operations. […]
After nearly four decades of military service, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin announced plans to retire effective Nov. 1, 2025. […]
After years of delays in implementing the Technology Business Management (TBM) framework, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is calling on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to either make TBM an administration priority or terminate the costly effort altogether. […]
The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration (SAF/SQ) has become the new sponsor for Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) as part of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) program. […]
The Treasury Department is asking for input from industry and the public on artificial intelligence, blockchain technology tools, and digital identity verification tech that it can use to detect money laundering and other illegal actions involving digital forms of currency. […]
Effective immediately, the Defense Department’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) will report to the Under Secretary for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)), a defense official confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is seeking input from industry on the development of a new, single, end-to-end integrated procurement ecosystem that incorporates artificial intelligence to enhance the Federal acquisition lifecycle. […]
Senate Democrats are asking President Donald Trump to rethink his reported decision to allow top semiconductor chip producers in the United States to sell their products to China in exchange for fees to the government. […]