Officials at the Library of Congress, the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), and the Smithsonian Institution are looking to leverage AI technologies to ease pain points for their employees and more efficiently deliver government services. […]
Former Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) senior staffer Jeff Rothblum has landed a new cyber leadership position at the White House. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) said it has finalized authorizations for electric vehicle supply equipment (ESVE) vendors Chargie and Chargepoint to operate inside government systems, which will allow the two companies to become authorized under GSA’s FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) program. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced the launch of Track 3 of the Remote Identity Validation Technology Demonstration (RIVTD), in which remote identity validation systems will showcase their ability to differentiate between real users and attackers attempting to impersonate other users. […]
A group of senators led by Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., called on the Department of Justice (DoJ) to conduct better oversight of the use of facial recognition technologies across the DoJ and its component agencies. […]
After serving in the Federal government for over three decades, Jennifer Ewbank has stepped down from her position as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for Digital Innovation, according to a recent LinkedIn post. […]
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Cybersecurity, IT, and Government Innovation Subcommittee, called out the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Wednesday for what she called its slow work in implementing the 2020 AI in Government Act. […]
The Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) today announced a $30 million funding opportunity to support the research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of next generation tools to protect clean energy delivery infrastructure from cyberattacks. […]
The U.S. Fleet Forces Command – a component command of the Navy – is looking to build and develop a new Global Maritime Response Plan that would enable the service to move from a peacetime setting to a wartime scenario at a faster rate than ever before. […]
The IRS announced today that the latest version of its IRS Free File Guided Tax Software service is online and operational for taxpayers to prepare in advance for the 2024 tax filing season. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is looking for education providers in the cybersecurity and technology arenas to apply to the agency’s Cyber Workforce Qualification Program to receive accreditation through the Defense Department. […]
Experts from government and academia said this week that successful adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies depends on a host of factors including strong leadership on the technology front, along with a good understanding of the contents of data sets that are used to train AI applications. […]
As the United States continues its work on developing AI regulations, one industry expert said today that “radical collaboration” between tech companies and policymakers will be crucial to that process. […]
The Federal Chief Data Officers (CDO) Council is looking for information on synthetic data generation as it works to develop a best practice guide, according to a request for information (RFI). […]
The Department of Labor (DoL) has tapped its Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) Louis Charlier to serve in the dual-hatted role of chief AI officer (CAIO), a department spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]
A new U.S. Air Force operational doctrine publication released by the service branch last month covering electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) operations is setting forth goals for the Air Force and U.S. military joint forces to create competitive advantages in the EMS arena. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking for information that will support the agency’s Advanced Analytics Platform For Machine Learning (CAP-M) Project – a program under development at the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – to support new software and tools in a multi-tenant cloud environment. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has named Eric Mill executive director for cloud strategy at GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) organization. […]
With the holiday season upon us, we at MeriTalk wanted to spread some holiday cheer. We’ve gathered up photos of our furry friends dressed in festive attire, meeting Santa, or just enjoying some winter weather. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released two preliminary draft practice guides “to share insights and findings to ease migration from current public-key cryptographic algorithms to soon-to-be standardized” post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a formal request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register today looking for feedback on its secure-by-design software practices. […]
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) – administered by the General Services Administration (GSA) – has issued its fiscal year (FY) 2023 Impact Report, offering a detailed look into the fund’s investments over the past year and a look ahead to what’s in store for 2024. […]
The National Security Agency (NSA), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released a new report providing guidance on industry best practices on open source software and software bills of materials (SBOM). […]
The White House on Tuesday gathered together more than a dozen Federal leaders across the government for its inaugural AI Council meeting. […]
In the past year alone, the Federal government has been thrown headlong into the hype cycle of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, a phenomenon a top tech official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called an “AI tsunami.” […]
The importance of technology “observability” has been growing by “leaps and bounds” as Federal agencies continue their journeys to the cloud and strive to meet government mandates, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said on Dec. 12. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a concept paper that outlines the department’s cybersecurity strategy for the healthcare sector, detailing four key actions it will take to advance cyber resiliency in the sector. […]
The Commerce Department said today it is closing in on its first agreement to provide funding under the CHIPS and Science Act, which was approved by Congress last year to make available up to $52 billion of funding to incentivize semiconductor makers to establish new manufacturing operations in the United States. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) released a new capability this week that aims to improve the U.S. military’s situational awareness of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS). […]
With ever-growing cyber threats across the digital landscape, the Department of Defense (DoD) is looking to ramp up its ongoing bug bounty program – known as Hack the Pentagon – to help the agency find undiscovered cybersecurity weaknesses. […]