The National Guard, which has traditionally relied on human analysts to assess aerial photos and video for damage after disasters, is now turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to expedite situation assessments and resource deployment, and address the challenges of rapidly evolving conditions on the ground. […]
Legislation introduced in the Senate earlier this month would charge the White House’s National Cyber Director (NCD) with developing a plan to create a Federal government cyber workforce training center. […]
The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee voted today to approve the Creating Resources for Every American To Experiment with AI Act of 2023 (CREATE AI Act). […]
A group of Senate Democrats have introduced a bill that would require Federal agencies to take action to ensure people with disabilities can use the Federal government’s technology – including websites, software, documents, and digital content. […]
A new bipartisan bill would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop detailed guidelines for third-party evaluators to work with artificial intelligence companies to provide independent external verification of their systems. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) on Wednesday announced it launched a five-year $67 million investment establishing the Safeguarding the Entire Community of the U.S. Research Ecosystem (SECURE) Center. […]
As countries such as China try to obtain U.S. advanced technologies with military potential, an official from the Commerce Department said today that multilateral export controls will be crucial to maintain national security and stay ahead in the global tech race. […]
A subcommittee of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs voted on Tuesday afternoon to approve the Modernizing All Veterans and Survivors Claims Processing Act, which aims to improve the claims process for veterans by requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make AI tools available to its workforce. […]
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., is planning to introduce a bill that would codify the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) following Friday’s Microsoft outage linked to the cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike. […]
Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., has introduced legislation that would prevent Federal agencies from disqualifying job applicants solely because of their reported recreational or medical use of marijuana. […]
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) said today it approved funding awards totaling $13.8 million to the Commerce Department and the Energy Department for projects aimed at furthering the Federal government’s ongoing AI safety push, and improving existing nuclear emergency response infrastructure. […]
The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) announced this week that it is once again extending its Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) contract through April 29, 2025, as the agency works out bid protests for its CIO-SP4 successor. […]
The Department of the Air Force issued a presolicitation on Tuesday for new target-tracking technologies driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and other cutting-edge advancements. […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a guidance update today on patent subject matter eligibility to address innovation in critical and emerging technologies, including in artificial intelligence (AI). […]
Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, have introduced new legislation that would prohibit Federal agencies from buying technology products from “grey-market” sellers rather than authorized dealers. […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued new guidelines to Federal research agencies this week to improve research security and better protect U.S. research and development (R&D) work from foreign adversaries. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) needs another month to determine the future development strategy for its IT systems supporting background investigations, a top DoD official told lawmakers on Wednesday. […]
Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., officially introduced bipartisan legislation Monday that would establish an interagency committee to harmonize cybersecurity regulations. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) still has significant work to do to address open priority recommendations from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) related to insider threats and cybersecurity. […]
The White House’s Acting Principal Deputy National Cyber Director Jake Braun stepped down from his role on June 28, returning to academia full-time at the University of Chicago. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a new update this week to its Secure Tomorrow Series Toolkit to help stakeholders in the critical infrastructure community better prepare for future cyber threats. […]
The Army’s Program Executive Office Command, Control, and Communications Tactical (PEO C3T) is out with a new draft request for information (RFI) to obtain feedback from industry on the PEO C3T’s Unified Network Operations (UNO) program. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is urging other U.S. government agencies, members of the defense industrial base (DIB), and international partners to take measures to avoid typos that could inadvertently expose sensitive military information to unintended email recipients. […]
The IRS’s National Taxpayer Advocate, Erin M. Collins, is calling on Congress to help reallocate certain funds from the IRS’s Inflation Reduction Act funding to assist in its modernization efforts. […]
The State Department is employing plenty of technology tools in its campaign to improve public messaging efforts around the world, but is taking care to employ human-centric approaches to make sure that messaging is succinct. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is making extensive use of artificial intelligence technologies to perform data and information triage, and to fulfill the open source information collection responsibilities that it handles for agencies across the Federal intelligence community, a top CIA official said on June 26 at the AWS Summit in Washington. […]
Members of Congress are sounding the alarm on the shortage of cybersecurity and IT workers across the United States, with lawmakers noting that there are over 500,000 open cyber positions. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a long-awaited report on Friday that offers guidance on how to combat potential threats that AI technologies could pose in the chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) realms. […]
The White House has set the wheels in motion to bring the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) to its full roster of five members. […]
The Commerce Department said on June 20 that its Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has banned sales in the U.S. of a range of cybersecurity products and services sold by Russia-based Kaspersky Lab, Inc., with the agency saying their use poses a national security threat. […]