Legislation introduced in the House and Senate this week aims to speed development of the Defense Department’s (DoD) Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative – one of the Pentagon’s top modernization priorities. […]

It’s been nearly six months since introduction in the Senate of legislation to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), but the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee has failed to vote on the bill – even as the FAA’s current authorization expired on Sept. 30. […]

Democratic and Republican members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee clashed on Wednesday over whether or not current telework policies are helping Federal agencies to be more productive. […]

Identity solutions provider Okta said this week that the hack of its customer support management system disclosed in October impacted many more of its customers than previously thought, but did not impact its FedRAMP High and Defense Department IL4 environments used by the Federal government. […]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is looking for vendors to help the agency scale up its robotics process automation (RPA) capabilities to a target level of 35 to 50 automations annually, according to a new request for information (RFI) from the agency. […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is still in the early stages of incorporating generative AI technologies into its larger technology apparatus, an agency official said this week. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking comments ahead of several revisions it plans to make to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), according to an advance notice of proposed rulemaking published to the Federal Register on Nov. 17. […]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is inviting industry to submit bids on a new potential seven-year, $1.9 billion blanket purchase agreement to provide end-to-end program management support as well as to deliver enterprise-level information technologies solutions. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today that Zach Whitman, GSA’s chief data scientist, will serve as the agency’s chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). […]

Former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt reiterated this week his views on the need for global-level regulations for development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and said that the era of AI computer systems gaining the capability to set their own “objective functions” may only be five to 10 years away. […]

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. – long a champion of tech and cyber bills on Capitol Hill – in the last few months has teamed up with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to generate momentum for several pieces of AI legislation in the Senate that she sees gaining serious legislative traction early next year. […]

While every Federal agency is now required to identify network assets and vulnerabilities and provide data to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) regularly under CISA’s Binding Operational Directive (BOD), Improving Asset Visibility and Vulnerability Detection on Federal Networks, gaps persist. Bad actors continue to exploit known vulnerabilities, some of which are the consequence of highly interconnected systems and data sharing between the public and private sectors. […]

Federal government agencies are running hard to meet challenging White House technology policy mandates on a host of fronts – with cloud adoption, zero trust security migration, and customer experience improvements high on that list. […]

With lawmakers and stakeholders working together to develop AI guardrails, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said today that he believes “we are on the right path of a public-private partnership” in AI development. […]

As artificial intelligence technologies continue to evolve, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra said today that longstanding laws must be enforced to mitigate the dangers and harms of AI tech. […]

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is seeking to provide novel technologies to improve the response of both law enforcement and the intelligence community (IC) in attributing the sources of malicious cyberattacks. […]

Ahead of the U.S. Senate’s seventh special forum on artificial intelligence on Nov. 29, AI Caucus Co-Chair Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., said today he has been encouraged by the amount of bipartisan effort shown by his colleagues at the first six AI forums. […]

New data from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) finds that Federal government improper payments increased in 2023, with the Federal improper payment rate for fiscal year (FY) 2023 coming in at 5.43 percent – a slight uptick from the 5.12 percent in FY2022. […]

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded Kratos Defense and Security Solutions an eight-year single award contract worth up to $579 million to provide the service branch with satellite control capabilities and directly support satellite systems. […]

The U.S. Army unveiled on Monday its first doctrinal publication codifying the military uses of data and information in multidomain operations. […]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is looking to establish a new “program management office support” that aims to back up zero trust security implementation across the department, according to a newly published contract opportunity. […]

President Biden announced new actions today to strengthen U.S. supply chains, including several technology-focused initiatives such as the creation of the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience. […]

President Biden’s Executive Order issued today on the broad topic of improving security of Federal buildings and facilities touches on IT improvements and Federal workforce mobility, but does not spell out the extent of how those factors may eventually come in to play. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – in partnership with the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – has released guidelines to help AI developers make informed cybersecurity decisions.  […]

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is proposing a new circular to improve agency access to reliable acquisition data and information. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is asking for industry input on a potential acquisition of technology that will enhance the U.S. Army’s blue-force tracker system through the use of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite tech, according to a new request for information (RFI) from DoD. […]

Keith Busby has been tapped as the new deputy chief information security officer (CISO) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to his LinkedIn profile. […]

The Biden administration released its vision this week to boost U.S. semiconductor capabilities, announcing a $3 billion program to advance packaging – a key technology for manufacturing semiconductors, or chips. […]

Dorothy Aronson, the National Science Foundation’s current chief data officer (CDO) and former chief information officer (CIO), will also serve as the agency’s chief AI officer (CAIO), an NSF spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today.   […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said this week that its three commissioners unanimously approved a resolution that will give agency staff sharper tools for digging into non-public investigations of products and services that “use or claim to be produced using artificial intelligence (AI) or claim to detect its use.”  […]