The National Security Agency (NSA) published its 2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review this week to share its recent cybersecurity successes, including the agency’s work to enhance national security through artificial intelligence, strategic competition, and more. […]
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirmed it will once again track Santa’s Christmas journey this year, marking its 68th anniversary of tracking Santa’s whereabouts as he and his reindeer travel around the globe on Dec. 24. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Dec. 15 released the results of a January 2023 Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (RVA) performed on an unidentified organization in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector that found exploitable misconfigurations and the use of weak passwords, among other cybersecurity weaknesses. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the appointment of Tess deBlanc-Knowles to the position of special assistant to the director for AI, effective on Dec. 12. […]
Federal agencies will increasingly use emerging technologies like generative artificial intelligence (AI) to augment their work in 2024 and beyond, according to a new Deloitte report on government technology trends. […]
The Senate on Tuesday night unanimously confirmed by voice vote Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh to head both the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) after a months-long blockade to his and other Pentagon nominations. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a formal request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register today looking for feedback on its secure-by-design software practices. […]
With the IRS collecting more than $4.9 trillion in Federal taxes for fiscal year 2022 – totaling 96 percent of all government funding for that year – it’s more important than ever for the agency to speed the development of modernized services for taxpayers and more efficient tax collection for government. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a new report highlighting the potential benefits of using AI and machine learning (ML) technologies to forecast the weather for natural disasters such as severe storms, hurricanes, and wildfires. […]
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. […]