The Justice Department said on April 23 that it filed charges in the U.S. against four Iranian citizens, alleging their “involvement in a cyber-enabled campaign” that aimed to compromise Federal agencies including the departments of State and Treasury, along with U.S.-based defense contractors and other firms. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today it has tapped Hanna Kim to serve as the new director of its single sign-on service, Login.gov, with a start date of May 11. […]
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has been expanding its use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to bridge the gap on creating customer experience improvements even as it faces staffing shortages and budget uncertainty, the head of the agency said this week. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is experimenting with AI to help its employees and closing in on the release of a new chatbot for the agency’s outside constituencies, NSF Chief Data Officer and AI Official (CAIO) Dorothy Aronson said this week. […]
The Department of Commerce’s (DoC) Economic Development Administration (EDA) made public today the details of the 31 technology hubs’ proposals for the second phase of the new Tech Hubs program – revealing a collective request of $2 billion in funding for a total of 182 projects. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) said that Krystal Brumfield will be stepping down as the agency’s associate administrator for government-wide policy – a position she took up on the first day of the Biden administration in 2021 – effective on May 4. […]
Individuals and teams from the U.S. military service branches took home top prizes in the fifth annual President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition organized by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), CISA announced on April 19. […]
The accuracy of biometric identification technologies – such as facial recognition tech – has improved over time, but a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that more could be done from a policy perspective to ensure the safe use of those kinds of technologies. […]
The Department of Commerce (DOC) is looking for input on the development of AI-ready open data assets and data dissemination standards, according to a new request for information (RFI) posted on April 17. […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is making progress in its efforts to shift toward further use of cloud-based systems, with 60 percent of its applications now hosted in the cloud, the agency’s top technology official said on April 18. […]
The Department of Justice (DoJ) has issued a final ruling under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to ensure the accessibility of web content and mobile apps for people with disabilities. […]
As the IRS moves forward with deploying artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into agency operations, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said this week that the pace of adoption will remain cautious in the interests of protecting taxpayer privacy. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has seen a successful rollout so far of its Electronic Health Records Modernization (EHRM) program at the agency’s North Chicago site, but deploying the new system amid the Change Healthcare ransomware attack has raised new challenges. […]
The Department of Commerce has announced the appointment of five new members to the executive leadership team of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI). […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced today that Director Kiran Ahuja will step down from her role in the next several weeks. […]
As technological complexity continues to expand, it’s more important than ever for government agencies to invest in upskilling and incentivizing their workforces in the use of software-as-a-service (SaaS) products, a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) technology official said today at the Axonius Adapt conference in Washington. […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is having trouble gaining visibility into the masses of data on its networks even as the agency modernizes IT systems, a top official at NIH’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) said today. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in an April 9 report that the IRS maybe underestimating the true cost of its Direct File tax system pilot, which allows taxpayers to file their tax returns electronically and for free with the agency. […]
The Department of Commerce announced a preliminary agreement today for up to $6.4 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act for Samsung Electronics to bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing and research and development (R&D) to central Texas. […]
The IRS is moving both with deliberation and an expansive set of possibilities as it studies how the agency can take advantage of generative artificial intelligence technologies, a senior IRS tech official said at the Salesforce World Tour D.C. 2024 event on April 10. […]
Sean Connelly, who has been long been a prime mover on zero trust and other security policies for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), will soon be leaving Federal government service to join cloud security provider Zscaler, the company confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) publicly issued an emergency directive today calling on Federal agencies to take immediate action to reset authentication credentials following a breach of Microsoft corporate email accounts by Russian state-sponsored cyber actor Midnight Blizzard. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) group announced today that its single sign-on service – Login.gov – will begin piloting the use of facial recognition technology next month. […]
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Denis McDonough said today that his department’s fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget request features a “maintenance” IT budget, and that the agency plans to dip into money left over from previous years to fund IT programs such as its Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking industry comment on incident response recommendations that make up part of the agency’s latest draft of its NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0. […]
The State Department is beginning to see positive results from having taken on artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) tech work in the earlier stages of their development, an agency official said this week. […]
As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) nears a contract award for its Supply Chain Modernization (SCM) program, lawmakers are calling on the VA to provide more information on the coming contract to avoid another “failed” IT modernization project. […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced the winners of the agency’s Voice Cloning Challenge, which has encouraged the creation of approaches to protecting consumers from harmful AI-generated voice cloning. […]
The Labor Department (DoL) went public last week with its latest plans to modernize unemployment insurance (UI) programs that it operates with state government partners, and requested that Congress do its part by funding the plan. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Grants Management Quality Service Management Office (QSMO) is looking for feedback from the vendor community on the state of the commercial grants IT market. […]