Ahead of its second round of funding for tribal access to broadband internet services, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to provide better feedback to applicants who were denied full project funding in the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program’s first application round. […]

The United States Digital Service (USDS) has been “laser-focused” on its mission to deliver better government services to the American people through technology and design since August 2014. […]

Accenture Federal Services has appointed Federal government tech veteran Laura Kurup principal director, Data Science Innovation. She starts the new job on Sept. 11. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is looking for public comment its latest revisional draft that is focused on producing a learning program for cybersecurity and privacy that can be used by government and other organizations. […]

The Department of the Air Force is seeking to bring more workers into the Cyber Excepted Service (CES) to increasingly recruit and retain civilian cyber professionals, the department’s chief information officer (CIO) said this week. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has plans to establish a user experience portfolio management office and hire a senior official to lead the office, a DoD spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officially launched a Special Salary Rate (SSR) in July to increase the basic bay for thousands of its IT and cybersecurity employees; however, this pay raise is set to expire in 2027, under the VA’s PACT Act authority. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has made it easier for military and civilian staffers to report UFO incidents. […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Joint Requirements Council (JRC) aims to help different parts of the agency to find common solutions or “joint capabilities,” but a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that agency leaders are not regularly engaging with the council. […]

President Biden today confirmed his intention to give Federal civilian employees a 5.2 percent pay raise next year – making it the largest annual pay raise for Feds in 43 years. […]

The Department of Commerce (DoC) established a new data working group this week that aims to prepare public data to be AI-ready, according to DoC Chief Data Officer (CDO) Oliver Wise. […]

A top official from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said today that the Federal government is currently on track in the second phase of the Federal Data Strategy OMB released in 2020. […]

Government tech execs at the Federal and state level offered advice and tips on how they are approaching the pressing need to recruit more data scientists into their organizations as reliance on data-centric technologies like artificial intelligence continues to grow. […]

As the Department of the Air Force continues to make progress to reach its goal of “AI- readiness” by 2025, the service branch is also preparing for a new challenge – being “AI-competitive” by 2027. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) ninth annual Mission-Support Customer Satisfaction Survey is out for 2023, and the bottom-line finding is that the development, enhancement, and modernization of IT is one service that leaves the most room for improvement. […]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is adopting an automated capability that will ensure inactive accounts on one of its critical IT systems are shut down within 45 days. […]

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa., is calling for Federal government workers to return to in-office work, as well as an investigation across agencies to determine the “impact of telework on the delivery and response times of services” provided by the government. […]

The FBI and the Justice Department (DoJ) said on Aug. 29 that they have successfully disrupted and dismantled the malware and botnet known as Qakbot, which has been responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in losses to individuals and businesses. […]

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) unveiled its latest President’s Management Agenda (PMA) quarterly updates today, highlighting the successes under the second priority of the PMA: delivering excellent, equitable, and secure Federal services and customer experience. […]

The rise of generative AI has sparked a widespread public debate about what this emerging tool may mean for the future of the creative industry. With the lack of concrete AI regulations from Capitol Hill, significant questions have been posed for the future of the nation’s copyright system.  […]

The U.S. Army has embarked on a three-phase zero trust journey to ensure it meets the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Zero Trust goal to implement a department-wide framework by 2027. […]

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) is seeking to develop and incorporate “novel technologies” that will efficiently probe large language model (LLM) AI services – like ChatGPT – in an effort to detect and characterize an emerging tool’s threat modes and vulnerabilities. […]

While zero trust security has become headline news for government agencies since 2021, the Department of the Air Force has been working and learning in that space for several years and is being guided by several roadmaps that incorporate zero trust principles on a strategic level, a senior Air Force tech official said this week. […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is teaming up with the U.S. Space Force in a newly issued solicitation focused on creating a “tactically responsive” space system prototype that can be deployed and utilized within 24-hour notice. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has put out a call for industry expertise and technology products that will help support the agency’s Accelerate Adoption of Digital Identities on Mobile Devices project – which has the ultimate aim of creating a digital identification equivalent for use on mobile devices than can replace physical ID cards. […]

Although the Federal government has made progress in protecting U.S. critical infrastructure through a largely voluntary approach, Federal Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Chris DeRusha today called for minimum cybersecurity requirements for critical infrastructure. […]

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly called on Congress today to reauthorize the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program – which the cybersecurity chief said has resulted in improving the security posture of high-risk facilities by 60 percent. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) wants to roll out thousands of inexpensive autonomous systems to counter China’s military mass, a top Pentagon official said. […]

The recently established Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), which is housed within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has launched a new project to better protect the U.S. healthcare system’s IT infrastructure. […]

The President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) made a broad call Monday for the creation of a National Water Strategy to ensure the nation can deliver sustainable critical infrastructure systems that are responsive to cyber threats. […]