Top cybersecurity and critical infrastructure experts voiced concerns to lawmakers today at a House Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing that neither the government nor the private sector are doing enough to secure operational technology (OT) networks of critical infrastructure organizations. […]
As artificial intelligence continues to become more widely leveraged, lawmakers introduced a new bill Thursday that aims to better understand the environmental impacts of the technology’s development and use. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 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. […]
Federal agencies have been meeting “key” deadlines from President Biden’s artificial intelligence (AI) executive order (EO) and are even ahead of schedule on a handful of tasks, according to a three-month progress report the White House released today. […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to flip the cyber threat landscape paradigm by helping defenders better mitigate future threats, a senior official at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said on Thursday. […]
After nearly 20 years in the Federal government, David Nelson – chief information officer (CIO) at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) – is slated to retire from public service on Friday, Jan. 26. […]
Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) John Sherman has officially launched a Customer Experience Officer (CXO) Portfolio Management Office, a DoD spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]
New legislation introduced last week by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Gary Peters, D-Mich., would require agencies to share custom-developed source code with each other in an effort to reduce duplicative software contracts across the Federal government. […]
As the 2024 presidential election draws near, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., is looking to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to share critical information to help combat foreign election threats. […]
The government’s latest Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan is placing human-centered cybersecurity at the forefront of the nation’s cyber research and development activities and investments for the next four years. […]
The United States needs to diversify its technology supply chain in order to maintain its technological advantage and keep some technologies out of the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, top government officials told members of Congress on Wednesday. […]
Despite NASA’s move earlier this month to push out the dates for its Artemis moon orbit and landing programs, the Artemis project continues to face problems including cost-saving challenges, witnesses said at a House Science, Space, and Technology Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee hearing today. […]
By creating the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy (CDP), the State Department is better positioned to achieve its cyber diplomacy goals, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says. […]
Expert witnesses this week offered members of Congress a menu of recommendations – ranging from innovation-fueled security practices to better efforts to protect educational networks – to meet security threats posed by foreign adversaries to communications technologies. […]
While the IRS has been making historic progress in modernizing its tech-based capabilities to streamline workforce effort and tax processes, a new report from the agency’s taxpayer advocate office says IRS still has more work to do to eliminate paper-based processes. […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it plans to start winding down the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) – the nation’s largest broadband affordability program – this week unless the program receives additional funding from Congress. […]
Federal agencies have improved their cybersecurity information sharing in recent years but barriers remain, according to a recent joint report released by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Intelligence Community (IC). […]
U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Lorna Mahlock officially took command of the Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) – the U.S. military’s joint cyber force tasked with defending the U.S. in cyberspace – at a military ceremony on Jan. 5. […]
With the prevalence of AI technology becoming ubiquitous in daily life, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released a new paper warning of hackers looking to potentially manipulate or “poison” AI data sets for malicious purposes. […]
Garrett Berntsen has been named deputy chief data and AI officer at the U.S. Department of State (DOS) in the agency’s Center of Analytics, according to his LinkedIn account. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) laid out new guidance on Dec. 22 covering how digital engineering practices should be implemented and used for developing and sustaining defense systems at the Pentagon. […]
Nikolaos Ipiotis has been tapped to serve as the new chief information officer (CIO) at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) – an independent agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that supports research in the biomedical and health breakthrough – according to his LinkedIn account. […]
2023 was the year of artificial intelligence (AI), and MeriTalk can say without a shadow of a doubt that 2024 will be just as action-packed with Federal AI goodies. […]
The Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is looking for feedback on the responsibilities that it’s undertaking as part of President Biden’s recent artificial intelligence (AI) executive order (EO). […]
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. […]
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 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. […]