As big tech CEOs descend on Washington for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s, D-N.Y., first AI insight forum on Wednesday, the heads of the Senate AI Caucus previewed the closed-door meeting and discussed efforts to regulate the rapidly evolving technology on Sept. 12. […]
The Senate confirmed Tanya Bradsher on Tuesday to serve as the deputy secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by a vote of 50-46. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its new Open Source Software Security Roadmap today that lays out the agency’s path forward to help ensure a secure open source software ecosystem within the Federal government. […]
In the midst of developing an executive order on AI to “protect Americans’ rights and safety,” the Biden-Harris administration announced it has secured voluntary commitments from eight additional AI private sector heavyweights. […]
The head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Friday that the agency has plans to shift its attention to the wealthy by leveraging AI and improved technology to identify sophisticated schemes to avoid taxes – thus reducing the burden on working-class taxpayers. […]
The Senate last week voted 55-43 to confirm Anna Gomez as the newest member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), giving Democrats a majority of commissioner seats at the agency. […]
NASA has revealed the first look at the sixth version of its Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurements Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (SEWP VI GWAC) IT contract. […]
The Treasury Department is embracing technology diversity as one of the mechanisms in its cybersecurity fights against bad actors looking to attack the department’s supply chains. […]
Amid rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities, a race against China to lead in AI, and increasing Federal funding, the question of whether AI will be widely adopted among Federal agencies has been resolved. […]
Sens. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., sent a letter to Acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden last week, encouraging the White House to provide updates on efforts to reduce artificial intelligence’s potential threat to the nation’s cyber infrastructure. […]
Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer John Sherman said his office is taking over as the lead on the Pentagon’s 5G-related activities, effective Oct. 1. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released new actionable guidance that focuses on mitigating volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against government websites. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) will complete its much-anticipated reorganization by early in fiscal year 2024, which begins on Oct. 1, 2023, the agency announced last week. […]
As the deadline quickly approaches for the military services to submit their respective zero trust execution plans, one thing is clear: the services are aggressively pushing to reach their zero trust goals. However, cyber experts across the military services agree that they must remain smart as they make moves toward their zero trust goals. […]
As quantum computing and related capabilities slowly but surely move closer to becoming practical realities, Federal government officials are confident that the U.S. will remain the global leader in quantum computing and quantum encryption. […]
The head of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) data science and artificial intelligence (AI) efforts said that government agencies should consider how to apply AI to cybersecurity operations but warned that they also need to heavily focus on how adversaries will leverage the emerging tool against them. […]
Federal agencies have increasingly adopted a human-centered approach to IT modernization to improve customer experience across the Federal government, and a key contributor to those efforts are the fruits of public-private partnerships. […]
Erin Lavik has taken over as chief technology officer (CTO) and deputy director in the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), according to her LinkedIn profile. […]
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., introduced new legislation this week that aims to prevent government shutdowns and the burdens they cause for Federal employees, government contractors, and Americans who rely on government services. […]
Federal Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Chris DeRusha said late Thursday that new cybersecurity metrics are helping the Federal government to better measure its success in moving towards an improved risk posture. […]
President Biden on Sept. 7 extended a national emergency order dating back to 2018 and warning of the potential for overseas meddling in U.S. elections. […]
The Biden administration announced $26 million in funding today to invest in additional safety technologies for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). […]
While it’s clear that artificial intelligence (AI) technology is here to stay, a top Defense Department (DoD) tech official said this week that DoD must embrace the technology, but also proceed with caution. […]
The Pentagon submitted its proposed rule to implement the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program to the White House for review in July and is now gearing up for the next phase of the rulemaking process: industry comments. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is launching a “full review” of all VA.gov processing systems after discovering technical problems that impacted the disability claims of thousands of veterans. […]
Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) John Sherman said today that defense and military agencies must submit zero trust plans to his office in the coming weeks to be evaluated and to determine how they measure up to the DoD’s Zero Trust Strategy. […]
The Justice Department (DoJ) said this week that Verizon Business Network Services agreed to pay a fine of $4.09 million to the government after failing to “completely satisfy certain cybersecurity controls in connection with an information technology service provided to federal agencies.” […]
The State Department is currently working on a new comprehensive version of an international cyber strategy that it will be circulating around the agency and government this fall. […]
A recently disclosed Chinese hack of Commerce and State Department officials’ emails was found to be linked to a Microsoft engineer’s compromised corporate account, the tech giant announced in a blog post this week. […]
In order to create a more robust cybersecurity workforce, security experts explained on Wednesday that cybersecurity education needs to start at the K-12 level. […]