The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs advanced two bills this week to strengthen the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses (VET TEC) program, which supports veterans training to work in high-tech fields. […]

The federal government invests more than $100 billion annually in IT, but those investments frequently fail to deliver in timely or cost-effective ways – in part because most major federal agencies are not meeting statutory IT portfolio review requirements, a federal watchdog revealed. […]

A recent multinational exercise in Lithuania evaluated more than 20 systems designed to combat unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, to evaluate how emerging counter-UAS capabilities will perform in realistic environments. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on May 14 that it plans to invest up to $1.5 billion over the next decade in its existing NSF X-Labs initiative. […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a collective $94 million in federal cost-shared funding to eight companies to support the near-term deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs). […]

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is expanding its push to modernize federal cloud security with a new FedRAMP Cybersecurity Service designed to speed cloud authorizations while bringing rotating technical experts into the program. In an interview with MeriTalk, FedRAMP Director Pete Waterman said the initiative is part of the broader FedRAMP 20x effort. […]

The Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) is using technology business management (TBM) practices to build a clearer picture of how IT dollars are spent across the agency. Total cost of ownership (TCO) models, benchmarking, and budget execution analysis have become key tools for improving transparency and informing budget decisions, officials said.  […]

Federal officials on May 14 said Anthropic’s Claude Mythos tool marks a turning point for government cybersecurity and military operations, warning that advanced AI models will require stronger public-private partnerships to defend against emerging risks. […]

According to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” initiative could cost as much as $1.2 trillion to develop, deploy, and operate over 20 years, far exceeding the White House’s current $185 billion estimate. […]

Congress could unlock tens of billions of dollars in federal government cost savings and financial benefits, reduce waste, and improve government services by acting on hundreds of recommendations that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has made over the past quarter-century. […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said this week it completed the first phase of a major overhaul of the nation’s Notices to Airmen (NOTAM) system, marking an early milestone in a modernization effort that officials say will help prevent nationwide airspace shutdowns, improve safety, and strengthen communications with pilots. […]

The Department of Commerce is launching its single-view IT spending and cloud dashboard within the next two weeks, Andi Fisher-Colwill, director of business and administrative services at Commerce, announced Thursday.   […]

The Trump administration is facing mounting pressure from lawmakers and former National Science Foundation (NSF) leaders to restore the National Science Board (NSB), with critics warning that weakening the agency’s leadership could undermine U.S. competitiveness in emerging technologies. […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) governance in government has moved “from concept to practice with remarkable speed,” according to a new practitioner’s playbook, which says public agencies are rapidly adopting rules and structures to harness AI’s benefits while managing a complex and evolving set of risks. […]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is leaning on a year-old digital and customer experience team to sharpen accountability for federal IT spending, and separately, it is exploring artificial intelligence (AI) use cases aimed at improving service delivery and workforce efficiency. […]

The Senate confirmed Arvind Raman as the next director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and under secretary of commerce for standards and technology on Tuesday.  […]

The U.S. Air Force has entered into a $72 million enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Salesforce to move its fragmented point solutions onto a single interoperable platform.   […]

The Pentagon will not use Anthropic as a Department of Defense (DOD) vendor despite ongoing government interest in the company’s powerful Claude Mythos artificial intelligence (AI) tool, DOD Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Emil Michael said Tuesday at the Politico Security Summit. […]

Former U.S. Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) Leonel Garciga is joining Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior executive advisor, the company announced Friday.  […]

The Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) said on Monday it will invest approximately $25 million in a new national competition aimed at upskilling American workers in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.  […]

As President Donald Trump and a group of top technology executives prepare to travel to China this week to meet with President Xi Jinping, lawmakers and policy experts are urging the administration to sharpen its position on artificial intelligence (AI) policy and safety.  […]

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino, R-N. Y., is seeking a briefing from Instructure Holdings, Inc., after two cyberattacks this month against the company’s Canvas platform disrupted schools and universities nationwide – and just as Instructure reported reaching a deal with hackers to protect stolen data. […]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is pressing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin for details on how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will coordinate cybersecurity preparedness for state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments as advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities accelerate threats.  […]

The Department of Defense (DOD) selected Joseph Tonon to serve as the next director of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), the agency announced. As director, Tonon will take on the agency’s longstanding challenge to modernize the federal government’s background investigations system. […]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has sentenced two men to 18 months in prison each after they helped North Korean IT workers obtain U.S.-based jobs by hosting company laptops and enabling remote overseas access.  […]

A bill introduced in the House of Representatives on April 21 would push the federal government to hasten its pace in evaluating and replacing legacy IT systems in favor of more modern systems. […]

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has launched a new website – Spectrum.gov – aimed at centralizing federal spectrum policy resources and advancing the U.S. push to lead global development of sixth-generation (6G) wireless technologies. […]

A senior technology advisor at the Department of Transportation is urging federal agencies to prioritize “lift-and-shift” strategies and tighter collaboration between developers and program staff to modernize legacy IT systems without disrupting mission operations. […]

The latest version of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) internal artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Elsa, is now available to all agency staff for a multitude of functions, the FDA announced Wednesday. […]

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao appointed retired U.S. Navy Capt. William Toti to perform the duties of the undersecretary of the Navy, according to a statement Cao published Friday on X. […]