The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has tapped Michael Boyce to lead its AI Corps, which the agency established back in February. […]
As the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) celebrates the one-year anniversary of its Secure by Design initiative, the agency is looking to elevate the effort in public conversation and have customers make more demands of software vendors. […]
For the first time ever, an experimental fighter jet squared off against an F-16 aircraft in an artificial intelligence (AI) – fueled simulated dogfight, the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced last week. […]
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) – which was created by Congress in 1999 to provide oversight of the Internal Revenue Service – claimed credit this week for helping the IRS prevent the potentially fraudulent use of $3.5 billion of tax credits. […]
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) published a new report stating that legacy IT systems at the Department of Labor (DoL) and state and local governments are an overarching issue within the DoL’s unemployment insurance (UI) program. […]
The U.S. Navy official in charge of creating improved customer experience (CX) within the military service branch is expecting “big changes” to result from that effort. […]
When it comes to improving customer experience (CX), leveraging website analytics is top of mind for Joe Carter, the director of CX at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is giving defense agencies fresh direction on achieving continuous authorization for DevSecOps platforms. […]
The Department of Commerce announced today it has reached a preliminary agreement with Micron Technology for up to $6.14 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to build leading-edge memory semiconductors in the United States. […]
A new report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which is set to be released next week, focuses on several strong use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) tools in scientific research. […]
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) – which performs most of the Federal government’s security vetting tasks – is looking to expand the process of continuous vetting across the Federal government later this year while also exploring the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into that process. […]
NASA’s interstellar spacecraft, Voyager 1, is coming back online, the space agency announced on April 22. […]
The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Wednesday that some of the agency’s key ransomware initiatives have sent out more than 2,000 warnings of vulnerabilities over the last year. […]
Getting the right information to the right people at the right time is important in every industry and every geography, but it is paramount to national defense and intelligence efforts. […]
The Pentagon’s administrative and management support agency has developed and will soon implement a customer experience (CX) management plan, an agency official said on Tuesday. […]
The Justice Department said on April 23 that it filed charges in the U.S. against four Iranian citizens, alleging their “involvement in a cyber-enabled campaign” that aimed to compromise Federal agencies including the departments of State and Treasury, along with U.S.-based defense contractors and other firms. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) reached a new milestone in its classified cloud effort by migrating more than 300,000 Department of Defense (DoD) users into the new secret environment, the agency announced via LinkedIn on April 22. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today it has tapped Hanna Kim to serve as the new director of its single sign-on service, Login.gov, with a start date of May 11. […]
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has been expanding its use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to bridge the gap on creating customer experience improvements even as it faces staffing shortages and budget uncertainty, the head of the agency said this week. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is experimenting with AI to help its employees and closing in on the release of a new chatbot for the agency’s outside constituencies, NSF Chief Data Officer and AI Official (CAIO) Dorothy Aronson said this week. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 earlier this year, the first update since the original was released in 2014. The framework offers detailed guidance and recommendations on a wide range of cybersecurity topics, including the role of data backups in incident response and recovery plans. MeriTalk recently sat down with Travis Rosiek, public sector chief technology officer at Rubrik, to discuss the current threat landscape and the changes in the updated framework that help agencies and organizations plan for worst-case cyberattack scenarios. […]
The Department of the Navy (DoN) announced it swore in Anne Marie Schumann on Monday as the department’s principal cyber advisor (PCA). […]
The U.S. Army is turning to industry for input on how to best merge three of its largest IT services contracts, according to a request for information (RFI) posted to SAM.gov last week. […]
The Department of Commerce’s (DoC) Economic Development Administration (EDA) made public today the details of the 31 technology hubs’ proposals for the second phase of the new Tech Hubs program – revealing a collective request of $2 billion in funding for a total of 182 projects. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) said that Krystal Brumfield will be stepping down as the agency’s associate administrator for government-wide policy – a position she took up on the first day of the Biden administration in 2021 – effective on May 4. […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has announced the opening of its new mass digitalization center in College Park, Md., which it said will help speed up the digitalization of important government documents like never before. […]
Individuals and teams from the U.S. military service branches took home top prizes in the fifth annual President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition organized by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), CISA announced on April 19. […]
The accuracy of biometric identification technologies – such as facial recognition tech – has improved over time, but a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that more could be done from a policy perspective to ensure the safe use of those kinds of technologies. […]
New research from MeriTalk and RSA Conference reveals that while 80 percent of cybersecurity decision-makers say accelerating AI adoption is critical to their organization’s resilience against evolving threats, just 31 percent say their organization is using AI for cybersecurity today. […]
The Pentagon has launched a new fully operational program that allows independent “ethical hackers” to find and analyze vulnerabilities in military contractor networks with the aim of improving the cybersecurity posture of the defense industrial base (DIB). […]