The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on July 31 released its most recent quarterly updates to the Biden-Harris administration’s President’s Management Agenda (PMA), noting that the strategies in each of the three priority areas range from 59 to 77 percent complete. […]
The United States needs to significantly ramp up its Federal research and development (R&D) investments in AI technology to meet “the moment” of today’s rapidly evolving digital age, according to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Arati Prabhakar. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of the Inspector General (IG) has set its sights on the department’s high-stakes Replicator initiative as the subject of its next review. […]
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted on July 25 to approve its version of the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) appropriations bill for fiscal year (FY) 2025, with some sizable year-over-year increases for science and technology spending. […]
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) released a new digital policy on July 25 that aims to utilize technology for sustainable development and humanitarian response. […]
The Department of the Air Force is establishing a new office to advance the operational imperatives and address the urgent need for rapid modernization in the face of emerging challenges posed by the era of “Great Power Competition.” […]
The Department of the Air Force’s chief information officer (CIO) is setting the stage for a new ecosystem that streamlines software convergence and data access across the service branch. […]
Members of the House Financial Services Committee voiced concern over the dangers of AI-fueled bias in housing services during a July 23 hearing. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is making a major push into the Arctic region with a fresh strategy that’s all about employing the latest tech. […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) plans to launch a weeklong series of experiments to test software solutions for enhanced command and control (C2). […]
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has sent to the White House six recommendations approved by the council that are aimed at growing the Federal pool of workers skilled in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). […]
Top cybersecurity professionals from across the Federal government and industry gathered on Thursday evening at Morton’s in Washington, D.C., to honor the 2024 Cyber Defenders Award winners. […]
A top cybersecurity official at the State Department said Tuesday that the agency is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to “buy back time” for the cyber workforce. […]
While the General Services Administration (GSA) has been using AI technology for quite some time, a top official on Tuesday said the agency is still in the “nascent stages” of using generative AI (GenAI) and identifying use cases. […]
The Biden administration is tallying up a total of $395 billion of commitments to invest in U.S. semiconductor and electronics sectors thus far over the administration, according to the White House’s Invest.gov website. […]
A new report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) says that the United States Coast Guard needs to do more to improve the cybersecurity of the Marine Transportation System (MTS) in order to better protect the U.S. supply chain. […]
The IRS’s Direct File pilot program that the agency conducted earlier this year proves the value in prototyping products in the Federal government before they are fully scaled up, the project’s product lead said during the Biden-Harris President’s Management Agenda event on July 10. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) launched a new agile delivery pilot program this week rooted in iterative development and customer engagement. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced today the first award under a new program aimed at expanding the domestic supply of critical ingredients and materials for U.S. national supply chains and strengthening the bioindustrial manufacturing base. […]
The National Security Agency (NSA), along with the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) and other agencies, has published a new cybersecurity advisory (CSA) that explains how a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber group is successfully conducting cyberattacks. […]
After refining its approach to software development, the U.S. Army announced it has rebooted its Accessions Information Environment (AIE) system to “AIE 2.0” in an effort to transform the Army recruiting process. […]
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $35 million through its Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Research Incubators for STEM Excellence Research Infrastructure Improvement (E-RISE RII) to boost research competitiveness, build partnerships across sectors, and create workforce development. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new investment last week to advance privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and promote their use to solve real-world problems. […]
Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., announced Monday his plans to introduce legislation that will direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop detailed guidelines for third-party evaluators to work with AI companies to provide independent external verification of their systems. […]
More than half of critical open-source tools are built on code that doesn’t internally manage memory overflow risks, potentially leaving them vulnerable to exploitation by hackers, according to findings released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on June 26. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is looking for feedback on its proposed revisions to its Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government, also known as the Green Book. […]
The Federal government’s primary personnel investigative agency’s deficient cybersecurity oversight and outdated IT systems pose a risk to national security, and the agency’s director this week pledged action to fix those ongoing technology problems – although he said some of the root causes may not be fully addressed for several years. […]
The Department of Commerce announced today it has reached a preliminary agreement with Entegris for up to $75 million in proposed Federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act to onshore critical semiconductor supply chain and manufacturing materials for leading-edge chip production. […]
Nearly one year after the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) issued its National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy (NCWES), the office released a report today outlining the progress to date and the next steps in building the nation’s cyber workforce. […]
The Defense Department’s (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) has launched the 24th annual DoD CIO Awards program with a departmentwide call for nominations to recognize individuals and teams in the DoD IT community. […]