Seven of the nation’s largest tech companies signed President Donald Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge on Wednesday, agreeing to cover the cost of all power needed to fuel their data centers. […]
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $352 million funding opportunity for its Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) program that it hopes will one day lead to next-generation energy technologies. […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is accelerating its transition to a zero trust architecture, replacing what one agency official described as a “flat” network environment that posed a “huge security vulnerability.” […]
As the Department of Defense (DOD) – which the Trump administration has rebranded to the Department of War – pushes to meet its fiscal year 2027 zero trust deadline, two major shifts over the past year have reshaped how the DOD is getting there. […]
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is leading a bipartisan congressional effort to reauthorize a legal provision with additional safeguards to prevent the government’s surveillance of Americans’ digital data without a warrant. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) wants to overhaul the way some federal employees are evaluated and make it easier to identify poor performers by setting quotas for ratings and limiting challenges to performance scores. […]
The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is partnering with the Department of the Army to rapidly adopt AI-enabled coding tools across the workforce of the Defense Department (DOD) – rebranded as the War Department by the Trump administration. […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) cyber threats have reached a critical turning point, with an 89% year-over-year increase in attacks by AI-enabled adversaries, according to a report issued Tuesday from cybersecurity services provider CrowdStrike. […]
The State Department announced on Thursday it will make $200 million in foreign assistance funding available to expand access to artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, low-cost smartphones across the Indo-Pacific region under the new “Edge AI” package. […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is exchanging the traditional acquisitions process for a new challenge-based approach to modernize its vast IT infrastructure – and to do so quickly. […]
The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) has appointed William Kirk as chair of the group’s Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC). […]
The Department of Energy (DOE) identified 26 science and technology challenges it aims to tackle through its Genesis Mission while advancing artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and discovery. […]
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has granted the first three contracts under its newest program for commercial imagery providers, aimed at helping the agency take advantage of innovative space technologies. […]
A three-year pilot gave the Treasury Department access to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) full Death Master File and generated nearly $109 million in net benefits in its first year, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says SSA’s approach to paying states and allocating data costs doesn’t meet statutory requirements. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued new guidance to owners and operators of operational technology (OT) that is aimed at helping them reduce security costs and complexity. […]
The CIA announced a new acquisition framework on Monday that looks to streamline the agency’s collaborative efforts with commercial technology companies. […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants feedback on a SpaceX proposal to deploy up to 1million satellites that will function as orbital data centers. […]
Universal connectivity and competitive communications markets will determine whether artificial intelligence (AI) delivers broad economic gains or reinforces market concentration, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Olivia Trusty said on Wednesday. […]
The Pentagon’s ability to carry out military missions is increasingly dependent on the security of operational technology (OT). But defense officials warn that as these systems become more networked, cyber threats are growing in scale and sophistication – requiring predictive monitoring and resilient architectures across the Defense Department (DOD), rebranded as the War Department by the Trump administration. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced that the United States is leaving the Open Government Partnership (OGP), citing U.S. efforts to cut costs and drive efficiency and diverging principles under the Trump administration. […]
The Department of the Air Force has formally adopted the Pentagon’s GenAI.mil as the enterprise generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force. […]
The Pentagon named six senior officials to lead its top technology priorities, assigning leadership for each of the newly restructured critical technology areas (CTAs) for the Defense Department (DOD), which was rebranded as the War Department by the Trump Administration. […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is accelerating long-planned technology upgrades to meet today’s air traffic realities: more flights, new entrants like drones, and rising expectations for resiliency after recent system and workforce impacts. Ongoing efforts to modernize the National Airspace System (NAS) and the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul the nation’s air traffic control system underscore the urgency. […]
A new legislative proposal introduced by Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, on Friday would use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify redundant and outdated rules in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). […]
As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) prepares to resume deployments of its Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program, the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) is warning of ongoing challenges with the program’s rollout. […]
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is testing two generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots as part of a new pilot effort aimed at improving internal efficiency, the agency’s chief information officer (CIO) said Thursday. […]
New legislation introduced in the House would block the use of China-controlled apps on federal government devices. […]
House Homeland Security Chair Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., is calling on Verizon and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to brief Congress on a service outage that affected many Verizon customers. […]
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is leading congressional efforts to prevent Chinese foreign nationals from accessing the Department of Energy’s (DOE) national laboratories, citing national security concerns. […]
As missile threats evolve and the Arctic grows more accessible, defense leaders are rethinking what it takes to protect the homeland in the High North. Speaking on a recent Red Hat Government Symposium panel, “Missile Defense in the Digital Age,” experts underscored that the next generation of missile defense will depend on artificial intelligence (AI)-ready data, resilient networks, and close cooperation among allies. […]