During a House Oversight Subcommittee hearing today, witnesses underscored urgent concerns regarding the Department of Defense’s (DoD) inefficient spending practices, emphasizing a critical need for reform. […]
Lawmakers at a House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hearing on July 23 issued a bold call for CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping to dismantle the country’s “Great Firewall,” but witnesses at the hearing had other suggestions. […]
Members of the House Financial Services Committee voiced concern over the dangers of AI-fueled bias in housing services during a July 23 hearing. […]
While generative AI technology has come a long way in the past couple of years, Federal AI experts explained today that the technology is not yet ready for the government to “fire and forget” the technology – meaning it still requires a human-in-the-loop after deployment. […]
National Cyber Director Harry Coker Jr. today announced the appointment of Harry Wingo as deputy national cyber director, effective next week. […]
A subcommittee of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs voted on Tuesday afternoon to approve the Modernizing All Veterans and Survivors Claims Processing Act, which aims to improve the claims process for veterans by requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make AI tools available to its workforce. […]
The top U.S. counterterrorism official Christy Abizaid has stepped down as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) after serving in the role for three years. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today that Brandon Wales is stepping down as the agency’s executive director, and that Bridget Bean will take over as executive director next month. […]
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., is planning to introduce a bill that would codify the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) following Friday’s Microsoft outage linked to the cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike. […]
As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is preparing to restart deployment activities for its Electronic Health Records Modernization (EHRM) program in fiscal year (FY) 2025, lawmakers are asking the agency to hold off – and in the words of one of them – to avoid a potential “disaster.” […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is making a major push into the Arctic region with a fresh strategy that’s all about employing the latest tech. […]
More than a dozen of the country’s largest technology providers and AI developers have launched the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), which they are billing as an open source community that aims to provide guidance and tools to practitioners and developers to create secure-by-design artificial intelligence systems. […]
Cricket is the planet’s second largest sport – and the world’s game is catching fire in the United States – so it’s long past time to get in the groove with the 2.5 billion fans worldwide who already take it to heart. […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) plans to launch a weeklong series of experiments to test software solutions for enhanced command and control (C2). […]
The Department of Treasury sanctioned two members of a Russian nationalist hacktivist group on July 19 over an incident in January that led to the overflow of water storage tanks in Texas. […]
Federal government operations affected by Friday’s Microsoft outage linked to the cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike appeared to recovering their footing today, including the Social Security Administration (SSA), which reopened its offices today. […]
The Air Force announced on July 17 the retirement of Kristyn Jones who previously served as Under Secretary of the Air Force in an acting capacity. […]
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has sent to the White House six recommendations approved by the council that are aimed at growing the Federal pool of workers skilled in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). […]
Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., has introduced legislation that would prevent Federal agencies from disqualifying job applicants solely because of their reported recreational or medical use of marijuana. […]
Two top intelligence officials within the Department of Defense (DoD) said this week that Russia is “getting close” to having the ability to leverage nuclear weapons in space, potentially threatening the United States and its allies’ low earth orbit satellites. […]
Department of Defense (DoD) operations were unaffected by the ongoing Microsoft outage caused by a flawed CrowdStrike security update, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Friday. […]
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) said today it approved funding awards totaling $13.8 million to the Commerce Department and the Energy Department for projects aimed at furthering the Federal government’s ongoing AI safety push, and improving existing nuclear emergency response infrastructure. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is requiring its components and military services to meet target level goals of the Pentagon’s Zero Trust Strategy by fiscal year 2027. But for the U.S. Army, this goal is especially challenging given its unique and large-scale operational environment. […]
Anne Neuberger, the White House’s deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, said that today’s CrowdStrike outage – one of the largest IT outages in history – highlights the need for a tough look at digital resilience capabilities. […]
Top cybersecurity professionals from across the Federal government and industry gathered on Thursday evening at Morton’s in Washington, D.C., to honor the 2024 Cyber Defenders Award winners. […]
U.S. Army Secretary Christine Warmouth said this week that the Army is undergoing its “most profound change” in 40 years as the military service branch “fundamentally” transforms its weapons systems. […]
The ongoing Microsoft outage caused through a faulty update by cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike has disrupted several Federal and state and local government (SLG) services nationwide. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Inspector General (IG) just dropped a series of upcoming review projects, and it’s gearing up to scrutinize some of the Pentagon’s most buzzworthy initiatives. […]
The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) announced this week that it is once again extending its Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) contract through April 29, 2025, as the agency works out bid protests for its CIO-SP4 successor. […]
As the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) reaches the one-year mark on its DIU 3.0 strategy, Director Doug Beck is looking back on the progress made and emphasizing that there is still more for the unit to accomplish. […]