The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has officially launched a new program that is helping travelers with PreCheck get through airport security screening even faster with the help of facial recognition technology. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) said today it reached terms with Google for discounted pricing to federal government agencies for a “Gemini for Government” services suite that includes the Google AI platform, cloud services, and agentic AI solutions. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) digital identity verification service Login.gov will now support the use of U.S. passports to verify identities, the agency said today.   […]

Artificial intelligence technologies offer a range of benefits to federal agencies, but an official from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Tuesday warned that agencies should not view AI as “the silver bullet that fixes everything.” […]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has relaunched its online guidance portal which features information on procedures across the agency’s environmental programs.  […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) has announced that it is slightly delaying awards for the Polaris Governmentwide Acquisition Contract’s (GWAC) Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone) pool. […]

After years of delays in implementing the Technology Business Management (TBM) framework, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is calling on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to either make TBM an administration priority or terminate the costly effort altogether. […]

The Treasury Department is asking for input from industry and the public on artificial intelligence, blockchain technology tools, and digital identity verification tech that it can use to detect money laundering and other illegal actions involving digital forms of currency.   […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) is seeking input from industry on the development of a new, single, end-to-end integrated procurement ecosystem that incorporates artificial intelligence to enhance the Federal acquisition lifecycle. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans create five artificial intelligence use cases for security control overlays that will address risks with the use and development of AI systems.   […]

The Department of Commerce has appointed Bill Frauenhofer director of the agency’s CHIPS Program Office. […]

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has handed the Trump administration a significant victory in ruling that only the Government Accountability Office (GAO) may challenge the administration’s freeze on foreign aid funding. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has unveiled its “lightweight cryptography” standard for small network devices after years of review.   […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) today unveiled its USAi platform, created to offer government agencies the ability to experiment with artificial intelligence technologies and inform their decisions to put the tech to work. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) on Wednesday announced a new OneGov agreement with Box, the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, to provide Federal agencies with discounted pricing on AI tools. […]

Dorothy Aronson, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) former chief data officer (CDO) and chief AI officer (CAIO), has left the agency, an NSF spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) is wrapping Anthropic’s Claude generative AI services into its OneGov portfolio of services for government agencies – at $1 per agency – similar to the pricing levels set by GSA last week under a similar deal announced with OpenAI for its ChatGPT GenAI service. […]

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center has a suite of space technologies – including artificial intelligence and rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) technology – that could support the Department of Defense’s (DoD) development of the Golden Dome missile defense system, according to a NASA official. […]

A new report from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) reveals that community care staff did not always import records into veterans’ electronic health records (EHRs), due in part to technology limitations. […]

Deborah Stephens is the new acting chief information officer (CIO) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) following the departure of former CIO Jamie Holcombe earlier this week. […]

Newly proposed rules from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would require, if adopted, that unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) – also known as drones – undergo new cybersecurity screening processes to prevent security breaches and unauthorized access.  […]

While previous administrations have pledged to restructure the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), a top official from the General Services Administration (GSA) said on Thursday that “this time is different” due in part to advances in technology. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) unveiled its latest OneGov agreement today, this time a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which GSA said will feature up to $1 billion of direct incentive credits from AWS that can be utilized by government agencies.   […]

What happens if you run into medical issues in space and can’t get in touch with Houston? NASA and Google say their new artificial intelligence system might help the next time you’re stuck in Earth’s orbit and need some help.  […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new funding opportunity this week that aims to invest up to $100 million to support a network of “programmable cloud laboratories,” enabled by AI. […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is ramping up its internal generative AI tools and is preparing to roll out an AI training portal “very soon” to help the workforce become more comfortable using GenAI. […]

After four years of work, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the long-awaited update to its digital identity guidelines.  […]

Jamie Holcombe, the chief information officer (CIO) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), is retiring from Federal service. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) said today it has reached terms of an agreement with OpenAI to provide Federal agencies with the company’s ChatGPT generative AI service at a deep pricing discount. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is asking Congress to address a patchwork of varying cybersecurity regulations and requirements across critical infrastructure sectors, saying that while cybersecurity has evolved, standardizing related regulations has not.  […]