The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Digital Service (DDS) has announced that its Hack the Pentagon program has launched a continuous bug bounty program that will expand to the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) assets and beyond. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said that it will begin a two-year strategic effort to modernize its approach to enterprise cyber threat information sharing in 2024 “to maximize value to our partners and keep pace with a changing threat environment.” […]
The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Dec. 13 voted unanimously to approve legislation that aims to speed up processing times for obtaining U.S. passports through a variety of actions including the application of commercially available technology. […]
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) – administered by the General Services Administration (GSA) – has issued its fiscal year (FY) 2023 Impact Report, offering a detailed look into the fund’s investments over the past year and a look ahead to what’s in store for 2024. […]
In order to “maintain the integrity of its merit review process,” the National Science Foundation (NSF) has released new guidelines on the use of generative AI for both proposers and reviewers. […]
While generative AI is rapidly evolving as a useful analytic tool, the emerging technology will not be replacing intelligence analysts anytime soon, according to a former CIA official. […]
Four state and local government (SLG) agencies have partnered with the General Services Administration (GSA) to start sending customized text messages for application deadlines, interview reminders, fraud reduction, and other critical service updates to people who opt in as well as their own agency staff. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is pushing equipment and software manufacturers to eliminate the use of default passwords in their products. […]
The National Security Agency (NSA), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released a new report providing guidance on industry best practices on open source software and software bills of materials (SBOM). […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a new data strategy that aims to advance the agency’s management and use of data to improve health outcomes for all Americans. […]
After the launch of its new generative AI task force – dubbed Task Force Lima – earlier this year, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is continuing to make progress on the adoption of generative AI technologies across the DoD. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced it is looking to provide a minimum viable capability (MVC) of Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) – one of the Pentagon’s top modernization priorities – to the Joint Force by the end of the year. […]
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has tapped its Chief Information Officer (CIO) David Nelson to serve as the NRC’s lead on AI operations, an agency spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today. Nelson also serves as the commission’s chief data officer. […]
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – a Department of Defense (DoD) component – has awarded Northrop Grumman a $700 million contract to provide a cloud and sensor solution to deliver faster intelligence to warfighters. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is calling on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to improve its security to better protect against threats to federally funded research. […]
In 2021, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence concluded that the Pentagon’s AI talent deficit is one of the greatest impediments to the United States being AI-ready by the target date of 2025. The Department of Defense (DoD) identified cultivating a workforce with AI expertise as a strategic focus area in 2018, but a new report finds that the DoD can’t fully identify who is part of its AI workforce or which positions require personnel with AI skills. […]
Half a dozen Democratic senators introduced legislation on Dec. 12 that would require all Federal agencies that use AI technology to create an office of civil rights to manage concerns about the possibility of AI biases that could lead to discrimination. […]
As more women are entering the technology workforce, female government tech leaders this week said that the keys to success in a male-dominated field are leaning on mentors and building a strong network. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published draft guidance this week on evaluating differential privacy – a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) used in data analytics – to fulfill one of its tasks under President Biden’s recent artificial intelligence executive order (EO). […]
Microsoft announced this week that the company has taken down websites and other online assets used by the Storm-1152 cybercrime group, which the company said is the “number one seller and creator of fraudulent Microsoft accounts.” […]
The White House on Tuesday gathered together more than a dozen Federal leaders across the government for its inaugural AI Council meeting. […]
The House voted today to approve the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which features a 5.2 percent pay raise for military personnel, and represents a 3 percent year-over-year spending increase. […]
Both NASA and the Department of Commerce (DoC) reported use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) technology at double and triple the rate of the other 18 civilian CFO Act agencies who claimed to be using the emerging technology, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds. […]
As cyber threats continue to evolve in complexity, collaboration is more crucial than ever and serves as the “fuel” of cyber operations, according to David Carroll, associate director for mission engineering at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). […]
In the past year alone, the Federal government has been thrown headlong into the hype cycle of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, a phenomenon a top tech official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called an “AI tsunami.” […]
The growth of AI technology is coming on at a “fast and furious” pace, and Federal agencies need to buckle in and prepare themselves for the technology’s rapid proliferation, a panel of Federal agency chief information officers said this week. […]
With the rapid growth and deployment of AI-fueled technologies, the need for “observability” within network assets is becoming an even more important necessity to maintain control over technology operations, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) official said on Dec. 12 at the Datadog Observe conference. […]
While technology advancements are reshaping the way IT teams work together and driving organizational change across the Federal government, a top tech leader at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said Tuesday that a major piece of modernization for better citizen experiences is rooted in training the agency workforce in tech adoption. […]
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Danny Werfel announced big steps to reorganize the agency’s leadership structure today, aiming to reflect the transformation goals the agency has been undertaking since the commissioner’s confirmation to his post earlier this year. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has vetoed the Special Salary Rate (SSR) for IT and cybersecurity employees, according to Department of Energy (DoE) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Ann Dunkin. […]