The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced it is looking to update its Privacy Framework to Version 1.1, four years after the release of its original framework in January 2020. […]
An official with the Defense Department’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) outlined what he called the office’s planned “big plays” for the rest of fiscal year 2024 during a Jan. 31 AI Acquisition Forum hosted by ACT-IAC. […]
The U.S. Treasury Department has tapped Todd Conklin to be the agency’s new chief artificial intelligence officer and deputy assistant secretary cyber, according to his LinkedIn account. […]
The Federal government is already using artificial intelligence technologies, but one tech expert this week explained that it’s crucial to leverage “radical collaboration” to put a formal AI governance model in place – such as an Authority to Operate (ATO). […]
Federal agencies have until the end of the day to shut down two widely used software products due to major cybersecurity vulnerabilities. […]
The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) must establish performance measures and implementation costs for the administration’s recent National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS) in order for the strategy to be effective across all Federal agencies, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report argues. […]
The Pentagon’s lack of a comprehensive and coordinated approach to tracking and reporting unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) – or UFOs as they are often called – is endangering U.S. national security, according to an unclassified summary of a report prepared by the Department of Defense (DoD) inspector general (IG). […]
The Interior Department has tapped Andy Lewandowski to serve as its first-ever chief digital experience officer – effective Jan. 29 – a department spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) published its 2023 End of Year Report on the Open-Source Software Security Initiative (OS3I) this week, highlighting four key areas the group made progress in over the last year. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) plans to pilot an artificial intelligence (AI) prototype to serve as a “digital concierge” to enhance its workforce’s capabilities, an agency official said. […]
Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. – ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation – expressed disappointment today in his Republican colleagues for a lack of participation in the 17th edition of the FITARA Scorecard. […]
Although Federal agencies received low marks in the new cloud computing category of the 17th edition of the FITARA Scorecard issued today by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., tech leaders from several agencies expressed gratitude for creation of the new category and shared plans to improve their scores going forward. […]
The downward trend in overall agency grades on the 17th edition of the FITARA Scorecard issued by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., today reflects two big changes in how the latest scorecard was assembled – one of which Federal agencies can do something about going forward, and another that they cannot. […]
The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics component is driving hard this year toward further adoption of cloud services and automation of security processes, the bureau’s chief information security officer (CISO) said during a Jan. 25 webinar organized by ATARC. […]
The U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) has selected Bill Hepworth to serve as the program executive officer (PEO). He took over the position at an Army ceremony on Jan. 26 – replacing Ross Guckert who is retiring after 34 years of service. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this week the establishment of the first-ever NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines), awarding 10 teams a potential $1.6 billion over the next decade. […]
Many Federal agencies received lower grades on the 17th edition of the FITARA Scorecard issued by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., today, due at least in part to a significant reshuffling of the IT-related categories that the scorecard uses to issue overall grades for the 24 largest Federal agencies. […]
Infusing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into data and applications at the edge has the potential to transform operations at Federal civilian agencies and in national defense. But edge environments can be challenging to manage and come with their own set of security risks. […]
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) today approved two bills related to cybersecurity and software – the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Competition Act and the Source Code Harmonization And Reuse in Information Technology (SHARE IT) Act. […]
Chinese state-sponsored hackers are positioning themselves to be able to take down vital U.S. resources at a moment’s notice and the U.S. must be prepared to deal with that threat, top Federal government officials told lawmakers today during a House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hearing. […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) plans to focus on automation of sensor exploitation through the use of AI technologies as part of an ambitious plan to invest in AI tech this year, an agency official said on Jan. 30 at MeriTalk’s Accelerate AI Forum in Washington. […]
The Federal Chief Data Officers Council (CDO Council) has appointed Kirsten Dalboe as council chair and Robert King as vice-chair, according to a Jan. 25 LinkedIn post. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) provided an update on the progress its making on some of the agency’s own internal AI use cases that are either in the planning or implementation stages. […]
A top official from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said on Tuesday that his agency is looking to embrace artificial intelligence, starting by building a people-centric foundation. […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has launched a new 24/7 operations center to provide geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) to policymakers and military forces, the agency announced on Jan. 24. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) needs new guidance aimed at better securing artificial intelligence (AI) systems and data in the department, according to a top DoD official. […]
Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, today introduced the latest version of their Federal Adjustment of Income Rates (FAIR) Act, which would provide Federal employees with a 7.4 percent pay increase in 2025. […]
Top Federal and industry IT experts said today that operationalizing AI at scale across the government requires leveraging existing governance frameworks, including President Biden’s recent AI executive order, to overcome hurdles with the emerging technology – like bias and transparency. […]
Federal agencies are already integrating artificial intelligence (AI) to support a range of government missions, but one Government Accountability Office (GAO) official said today that the Federal government is facing difficult decisions as it looks to implement new governance structures. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has released a draft framework on how its Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) will prioritize certain Cloud Service Offerings (CSOs) that provide specific generative AI technologies. […]