Acting Chief AI Officer Kimberly McManus says VA is scaling AI that is saving employees hours each week, accelerating software delivery, improving clinical care, and protecting veterans’ benefits – while remaining largely invisible to the veterans VA serves. […]

The cybercrime group claims it accessed sensitive data on FBI personnel and job applicants, while the bureau says it is still investigating the alleged compromise. […]

Cameron Stanley said the Pentagon is pressing ahead with frontier AI as calls grow for new safeguards and limits on advanced AI development. […]

Federal Workforce Caucus leaders said November and December will be critical for securing a 2027 pay adjustment before the proposed freeze takes effect. […]

USPTO has deployed more than 20 AI applications as it emphasizes human oversight, workforce training, and tools designed to assist patent examiners. […]

The new option lets eligible users verify their identities from a smartphone while sharing only the information required to access government services. […]

Federal respondents reported more mature AI governance than their state and local counterparts, but both groups pointed to security, workforce, and infrastructure challenges as adoption expands. […]

The agency is expanding access to a frontline-developed communications tool as it works to scale promising technology from a portfolio of more than 14,000 employee-built applications. […]

The FAA is beginning a phased rollout of an AI-enabled platform designed to give air traffic controllers earlier warning of congestion, weather impacts, and other constraints. […]

The bipartisan, bicameral group is urging congressional leaders to provide civilian federal employees with at least a 3.8% raise – and preferably the 4.1% increase proposed under the FAIR Act. […]

The forthcoming guidance will draw on CISA assessments of how well critical infrastructure organizations can isolate and recover systems. […]

The bill would direct CISA to assess workforce and resource gaps as lawmakers scrutinize the agency’s capacity to defend federal networks and critical infrastructure. […]

Officials say agencies should begin inventorying and modernizing their telecommunications environments now to avoid repeating delays that stretched the previous governmentwide transition over more than a decade. […]

Federal agencies face a Sept. 19 remediation deadline for a maximum-severity authentication bypass that can give remote attackers root-level access. […]

The Energy Department is seeking commercial teams to deliver scientifically relevant, fault-tolerant quantum computers by 2028. It’s also funding a national laboratory testbed to validate performance. […]

The latest release of 72 UAP files comes as the DOD creates a protected channel for current and former personnel to share UAP-related information with the PURSUE initiative. […]

The Army has the drones needed to equip every squad and is now turning its focus to training soldiers to operate them, including in contested electromagnetic environments. […]

Energy Department CIO Dawn Zimmer sees enormous potential in AI-enabled workflows and integrated data, but says federal acquisition, authorization, compliance, and organizational decision-making still need to move faster. […]

The guidance shows how organizations can use tripwires, breadcrumbs, honeytokens, and other decoys to detect malicious activity after attackers gain network access. […]

A group of 10 representatives urged House leaders to advance legislation addressing oversight, security, and transparency for AI. […]

The waiver creates a protected channel for current and former Pentagon personnel to share UAP-related national defense information with a representative from the PURSUE initiative. […]

The department’s implementation plan sets near-term deadlines to narrow specialized cost-accounting oversight, simplify business-system reviews, and revise profit policy. […]

More than 70% of OPM employees are actively using at least one approved AI platform, CIO Adam Starr said. […]

House lawmakers are seeking testimony from Larry Ellison and Mike Sicilia about VA’s nearly $17 billion increase to the ceiling of its Electronic Health Record Modernization contract. […]

The congressman said the AI race is “not an arms race that you win.” He called on tech companies to pause frontier AI development and on Congress to put protections in place. […]

Rudolf Rojas said policymakers and technology companies should work together on rules for increasingly capable AI systems, while acknowledging disagreements over how quickly development should proceed. […]

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the U.S. military must prepare for a battlefield shaped by contested domains, AI, autonomous systems, and compressed decision times. […]

The new guidance offers federal agencies and cloud providers recommendations to protect identity and access tokens from theft, forgery, and misuse. […]

The Virginia Democrat says Congress needs a national strategy for data center development as AI drives rising demand for power and infrastructure. […]

New guidance establishes security and accountability requirements for using AI in software development. It also prioritizes software reuse to accelerate capability delivery. […]