Grace Dille

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Grace Dille is MeriTalk's Assistant Managing Editor covering the intersection of government and technology.
election security
Denis McDonough, VA secretary
deep fakes, AI

The Department of Commerce has announced the appointment of five new members to the executive leadership team of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI). […]

Axonius panel
OPM Office of Personnel Management
Axonius: David DiEugenio, Richard Grabowski

While the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) developed its Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program in 2012 with a monolithic software architecture, a top CISA tech official said today the program is looking to evolve to become “a lot more flexible and modular.” […]

semiconductor chips

The Department of Commerce announced a preliminary agreement today for up to $6.4 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act for Samsung Electronics to bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing and research and development (R&D) to central Texas. […]

Microsoft HQ

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) publicly issued an emergency directive today calling on Federal agencies to take immediate action to reset authentication credentials following a breach of Microsoft corporate email accounts by Russian state-sponsored cyber actor Midnight Blizzard. […]

Denis McDonough, VA secretary

Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Denis McDonough said today that his department’s fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget request features a “maintenance” IT budget, and that the agency plans to dip into money left over from previous years to fund IT programs such as its Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program. […]

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