The Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) announced this week the allocation of $45 million for 16 projects aimed at developing new technologies to prevent cyberattacks and reduce energy disruptions from cyber incidents. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued new guidance to agencies on pay flexibilities and programs available to help recruit and retain AI talent in the Federal government. […]

Witnesses warned lawmakers at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee hearing on Feb. 27 that U.S.-made technology is getting into Russian military hands and weaponry despite sanctions in place aimed at preventing that from happening. […]

In response to President Biden’s AI executive order (EO), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DoE) have officially established a Research Coordination Network (RCN) dedicated to advancing privacy research. […]

President Biden plans to sign an executive order (EO) today that aims to protect Americans’ sensitive data from “countries of concern,” the White House announced in a Feb. 28 fact sheet. […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said today he is “very optimistic” that Congress will come to an agreement this week that avoids a partial Federal government shutdown when funding for several government agencies runs out on March 1. […]

The Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence expressed concerns today that the United States is not prepared to fight foreign interference in the 2024 presidential election cycle, particularly when it comes to AI misuse. […]

A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that the Department of Defense (DoD) and several other Federal agencies need to take steps to make their sexual harassment training more effective. […]

The search for the straight dope on UFOs – and where to host all of that information – has stretched beyond the walls of the Pentagon and become a whole-of-government affair. […]

As Federal agencies are looking to improve customer experience (CX) across government, government officials at the Feb. 22 Digital Transformation Summit hosted by ACT-IAC and Carahsoft shared some of the ways they’re driving towards that goal, including through website modernization. […]

The Department of Treasury, along with its IRS component, is moving toward a requirement that agency leadership work more than half of their hours within traditional office settings. […]

Which agencies and CIOs are top of the charts for their IT performance?  Who’s getting As and Fs in what IT subjects – cloud, cyber, and everything in between? It’s all in the latest Congressional FITARA Scorecard. […]

Lily Zeleke, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) deputy chief information officer for enterprise IT (DCIO(IE), stepped down from that role on Feb. 22 and took over new responsibilities in the Department’s CIO office, Cmdr. Tim Gorman, a Pentagon spokesperson, told MeriTalk via email today. […]

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said today that over 600 semiconductor companies have requested more than $70 billion under the CHIPS and Science Act, meaning that the Department of Commerce (DoC) has “a lot of tough conversations” ahead to narrow down which companies receive funding. […]

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released a report today calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surface in cyberspace by adopting memory safe programming languages and developing better cyber diagnostics. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today unveiled its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 along with a suite of cyber resources, providing the first major update to the voluntary framework in over a decade. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – along with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and other international partners – has released a joint advisory warning of tactics and techniques used by alleged Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) hackers to infiltrate cloud systems. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established a two-year partnership with the nonprofit Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC) to secure biotechnologies from risks associated by artificial intelligence (AI) systems. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released a new Workforce of the Future Playbook on Feb. 23 that features twelve priority areas, including the integration of AI technologies into human resources (HR) processes. […]

The Treasury Department’s announcement today of a new round of economic sanctions on Russian businesses and individuals includes notable numbers of new sanctions falling on companies operating in the Russian tech sector. […]

The Justice Department (DoJ) has tapped Jonathan Mayer as the agency’s first-ever chief science and technology advisor and chief AI officer. […]

While Federal agencies are awaiting President Biden’s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget set for release sometime next month, a senior U.S. Navy official said this week that the service branch’s budget for digital transformation efforts has not been immune from spending pressures that agencies are facing going forward. […]

As government officials are whipping up their digital transformation recipes, some Federal technology experts – or should we say chefs – shared their secret ingredients at the Digital Transformation Summit hosted by ACT-IAC and Carahsoft on Feb. 22. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) is looking for input to help flesh out the agency’s Next Generation Network Infrastructure (NGNI) strategy that may succeed GSA’s existing Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contracts that guide how Federal agencies buy communications and related services. […]

Federal agencies last week released another series of equity action plans – featuring several notable technology-driven nuggets – that aim to continue advancing principles of the Biden-Harris administration’s equity agenda. […]

What are a few great reasons to circle March 11-12 on the calendar for AFCEA’s TechNet Emergence conference at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Va.? […]

 The U.S. Department of Agriculture Digital Service (USDA DS) is launching – along with the agency’s Office of Customer Experience (OCX) – a new fellowship that will help recruit some of the brightest minds for digital service delivery, procurement, and customer experience work at the agency. […]

The Federal Communications Commission has scheduled a March 14 vote on a proposal the agency first floated last year to create a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program for wireless internet of things (IoT) devices including home security cameras, voice-activated shopping devices, internet-connected appliances, fitness trackers, garage door openers, and baby monitors. […]

Alexis Bonnell, the chief information officer (CIO) and director of the Digital Capabilities Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), shared with industry today the five deadly sins of digital transformation, and called on organizations to adopt a people-centric mindset. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has delivered its long-sought initial iteration of the Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) capability – the department’s AI-powered meta-network of connected sensors to coordinate all the armed forces – said Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks. […]