New legislation filed in the Senate would instruct the Defense Department (DOD) to redouble efforts to recruit and retain members of the agency’s cybersecurity workforce and help address a double-digit percentage shortfall in DOD’s total cybersecurity employee rolls. […]
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) said on Jan. 13 that it has revised its licensing policy for U.S. semiconductor exports to China, and specifically flagged security reviews for products made by Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). […]
A new Senate bill would direct the U.S. Small Business Administration to provide a range of help to small businesses that are looking to implement artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. […]
The Trump administration is withdrawing the United States from its longstanding participation in the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE). […]
A senior official with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said the agency expects to announce new funding opportunities under its Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. […]
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has been awarded a $131 million task order under the U.S. Air Force’s Base Infrastructure Modernization contract, which totals $8.75 billion and aims to create a unified and secure network environment across all Air Force and U.S. Space Force bases around the world. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has unveiled plans to invest $20 million to help create two centers that aim to advance the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tech solutions to strengthen U.S. manufacturing and cybersecurity for critical infrastructure. […]
The federal government’s premier weather-focused science agency has launched an array of new artificial intelligence-powered weather models that the agency said marks the first-ever deployment of a “hybrid physical-AI ensemble system” for weather forecasting. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an initial public draft for Rev 5 of the agency’s National Checklist Program (NCP) that facilitates the generation of security checklists from authoritative sources, centralizes the location of checklists, and makes checklists broadly accessible. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has named three cloud services that will be participating in the first cohort of the Phase Two pilot recently launched as part of the FedRAMP 20x initiative. […]
