The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in an April 9 report that the IRS maybe underestimating the true cost of its Direct File tax system pilot, which allows taxpayers to file their tax returns electronically and for free with the agency. […]

COVID-19 may never leave us entirely, but the White House took official steps last week to ramp down much of the preventative guidance it had put in place while the pandemic was raging in 2020 and 2021. […]

Democratic lawmakers are lining up behind key Biden administration anti-fraud proposals, with a group of Senators unveiling legislation last week that includes key provisions to address systemic pandemic fraud and prevent future fraud schemes, and a key House lawmaker chiming in with legislation today. […]

The Department of Commerce announced a preliminary agreement today for up to $6.4 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act for Samsung Electronics to bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing and research and development (R&D) to central Texas. […]

U.S. Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) Leo Garciga released a new policy earlier this month that aims to create a “chain of responsibility” around the service branch’s data to guide how the Army can manage it efficiently and effectively. […]

The National Security Agency (NSA) issued a cybersecurity information sheet (CIS) on April 9 detailing recommendations for maturing data security and enforcing access to data in transit and at rest. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program is focusing closely on a range of goals for the remainder of fiscal year (FY) 2024 including expanding the program’s asset management capabilities to include mobile and cloud services, and leveraging the fruits of the program’s endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities to help CISA provide better security intelligence across Federal civilian agencies. […]

The IRS is moving both with deliberation and an expansive set of possibilities as it studies how the agency can take advantage of generative artificial intelligence technologies, a senior IRS tech official said at the Salesforce World Tour D.C. 2024 event on April 10. […]

Sean Connelly, who has been long been a prime mover on zero trust and other security policies for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), will soon be leaving Federal government service to join cloud security provider Zscaler, the company confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

Following fresh warnings from the Federal government that foreign hackers are targeting U.S. water systems for possible cyberattacks, two House members this week introduced legislation that would focus greater government attention on that threat. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a final rule Thursday to expand opportunities for early career talent in the Federal government. […]

The U.S. Space Force released a new plan on April 10 that realigns and reprioritizes the service branch’s steps to better integrate commercial space capabilities. […]

In the lead-up to the Adapt 2024 conference in Washington on April 16, we sat down with two senior Axonius Federal officials – Brian “Stretch” Meyer, Senior Director of Federal Engineering, and Kevin Jones, Senior Director of Federal Sales – to talk about how Federal agencies are grappling with zero trust security mandates, and how Axonius is helping them leapfrog some of the toughest obstacles to the goal of achieving better security. […]

In its first markup in 31 years, the House Administration Modernization Subcommittee voted Thursday to approve the Modernizing the Congressional Research Service’s (CRS) Access to Data Act. […]

A new bill introduced in the House and Senate is looking to designate a principal quantum advisor to the secretary of Defense to “supercharge” the Pentagon’s approach to quantum technology. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) publicly issued an emergency directive today calling on Federal agencies to take immediate action to reset authentication credentials following a breach of Microsoft corporate email accounts by Russian state-sponsored cyber actor Midnight Blizzard. […]

The U.S. Air Force has tapped Chandra Donelson to serve as the service branch’s acting chief data and artificial intelligence officer within the Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). […]

U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) deployed its digital force 22 times on “hunt forward” missions to over a dozen countries in 2023, Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh – who heads Cyber Command – told lawmakers during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 10. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) group announced today that its single sign-on service – Login.gov – will begin piloting the use of facial recognition technology next month. […]

Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Denis McDonough said today that his department’s fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget request features a “maintenance” IT budget, and that the agency plans to dip into money left over from previous years to fund IT programs such as its Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking industry comment on incident response recommendations that make up part of the agency’s latest draft of its NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0. […]

The State Department is beginning to see positive results from having taken on artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) tech work in the earlier stages of their development, an agency official said this week. […]

The U.S. Digital Service (USDS) partnered with the IRS to launch the new Direct File Pilot Program, which USDS Administrator Mina Hsiang said on Wednesday is an “incredibly exciting” customer experience (CX) achievement. […]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted today to approve the Multi-Cloud Innovation and Advancement Act, which aims to modernize and streamline the adoption of cloud computing technologies by Federal government agencies. […]

As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) nears a contract award for its Supply Chain Modernization (SCM) program, lawmakers are calling on the VA to provide more information on the coming contract to avoid another “failed” IT modernization project. […]

Two members of the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) Board said today that the group is prioritizing shareable playbooks so all of the Federal government can benefit from agencies’ modernization projects. […]

Leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight (ETSO) Subcommittee have debuted legislation to put in place stricter export controls to prevent adversary nations from gaining access to “sensitive technologies” – like artificial intelligence – created by U.S.-based firms.   […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking industry input on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models, tools, and services to improve its Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO). […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced the winners of the agency’s Voice Cloning Challenge, which has encouraged the creation of approaches to protecting consumers from harmful AI-generated voice cloning.  […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced two new investments today totaling over $47 million that will help NASA and the Department of Labor (DoL) address security vulnerabilities and update legacy technology. […]