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. […]
As the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is preparing to restart deployment activities for its Electronic Health Records Modernization (EHRM) program in fiscal year (FY) 2025, lawmakers are asking the agency to hold off – and in the words of one of them – to avoid a potential “disaster.” […]
The Department of Treasury sanctioned two members of a Russian nationalist hacktivist group on July 19 over an incident in January that led to the overflow of water storage tanks in Texas. […]
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 Veterans Affairs (VA) announced on Wednesday that veterans and other beneficiaries will need to switch to Login.gov or ID.me over the next year to continue to access their online services. […]
A top cybersecurity official at the State Department said Tuesday that the agency is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to “buy back time” for the cyber workforce. […]
A new report out Tuesday from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General reveals that the VA has been unable to collect about $665 million in revenue after it paused operations of its Program Integrity Tool. […]
The Commerce Department said today it signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum with GlobalWafers Co. Ltd. for up to $400 million in funding approved under the CHIPS and Science Act that the company would use to create semiconductor wafer operations in the United States. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is promoting to permanent titles Jeff Greene as the executive assistant director for cybersecurity, and Trent Frazier as the assistant director for stakeholder engagements. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) on Tuesday unveiled a roadmap for its new Frontiers in AI for Science, Security, and Technology (FASST) initiative announced earlier this year. […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to vote next month on a proposal that could lead to the adoption of new rules to protect consumers against receiving robocalls whose content is generated by artificial intelligence technologies. […]
While the General Services Administration (GSA) has been using AI technology for quite some time, a top official on Tuesday said the agency is still in the “nascent stages” of using generative AI (GenAI) and identifying use cases. […]
The chief human capital officer (CHCO) at the Department of Commerce said today that generative AI (GenAI) technologies appear to have a bright future in how government agencies undertake their human resource management work. […]
A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report reckons that the government could realize from $106 billion to $208 billion of benefits and savings if Federal government agencies took action on about four percent of the watchdog agency’s still-unimplemented recommendations. […]
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). […]
The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced on Friday that customers who created “my Social Security” accounts before Sept. 18, 2021, will need to transition to a Login.gov account to continue to access their online services. […]
A new report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) says that the United States Coast Guard needs to do more to improve the cybersecurity of the Marine Transportation System (MTS) in order to better protect the U.S. supply chain. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) wants cybersecurity for the average American to become second nature – as normalized as putting on your seatbelt when you get into a car. However, cybersecurity is often misunderstood by those outside of the field, who view it as a job reserved for IT professionals in a high-tech environment. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) spends big bucks on modernizing the IT systems it uses to run its day-to-day operations, but a lot of these systems are late to arrive and do not meet expectations, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). […]
The IRS’s Direct File pilot program that the agency conducted earlier this year proves the value in prototyping products in the Federal government before they are fully scaled up, the project’s product lead said during the Biden-Harris President’s Management Agenda event on July 10. […]
A top official with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Thursday that generative AI (GenAI) tools used within the Federal government should be risk-evaluated, but that there would be limitations to a program similar to the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) for GenAI. […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced on Monday that it has awarded contracts to six startups for help in developing privacy-enhancing digital wallet technologies. […]
The Department of Commerce (DoC) announced on Tuesday that it is launching a competition with up to $1.6 billion in funding, authorized under the CHIPS and Science Act, to support research and development (R&D) activities for semiconductor advanced packaging. […]
The Department of Justice (DoJ) said today that it seized two domain names from an unnamed individual working for the state-run RT news organization in Russia, and alleged that the individual and others in Russia were using the domain names to “create an AI-enhanced social media bot farm that spread disinformation in the United States and abroad.” […]
A top official at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said today that the agency is taking a “slow and steady” approach when it comes to adopting generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for everyday use. […]
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 Department of Interior (DoI) has awarded Accenture Federal Services a $250 million contract to support the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in operating and maintaining a cutting-edge mission services IT platform to ensure readiness for future challenges. […]
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $35 million through its Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Research Incubators for STEM Excellence Research Infrastructure Improvement (E-RISE RII) to boost research competitiveness, build partnerships across sectors, and create workforce development. […]
The State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy (CDP) held a swearing-in ceremony last week for Steve Lang, who has officially started his new role as U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy, with the rank of ambassador. […]
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. […]