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. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is searching for a chief data officer (CDO) who will also serve as the agency’s responsible AI official (RAIO) and chief AI officer (CAIO), according to a USAJOBS posting. […]
With the prevalence of AI technology becoming ubiquitous in daily life, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released a new paper warning of hackers looking to potentially manipulate or “poison” AI data sets for malicious purposes. […]
The Department of Transportation (DoT) has released its annual financial report for fiscal year (FY) 2023 in which the agency shares its cybersecurity successes from 2023 and plans to further improve its cybersecurity posture in 2024. […]
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) plans to expand and modernize several of its customer experience (CX) technology initiatives in 2024. […]
Garrett Berntsen has been named deputy chief data and AI officer at the U.S. Department of State (DOS) in the agency’s Center of Analytics, according to his LinkedIn account. […]
The Department of Commerce (DoC) said today it has reached an agreement with Microchip Technology Inc. to provide about $162 million in Federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act – marking the agency’s second funding announcement under the law. […]
The Department of Labor (DoL) recently announced plans to partner with state agencies to strengthen the nationwide unemployment insurance (UI) system, “with a focus on how modern technology and digital practices can make state systems more accessible, resilient, and secure.” […]
With the new year underway, the IRS is gearing up to pilot a new scanning system for the 2024 tax filing season that will utilize AI and machine learning (ML) technology to scan tax returns into the agency’s tax processing systems. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that it has tapped Terry Carpenter to serve as the agency’s new chief information officer (CIO) and chief technology officer (CTO), as part of a broader IT reorganization marked by the establishment of an independent Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). […]
A recent report from the General Services Administration (GSA) finds that Federal agencies’ IT products and services – including websites, software, documents, and digital content – are largely not meeting digital accessibility standards. […]
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 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving to reestablish a new version of its Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) advisory committee to take a look at how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies can boost communications network security. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has published the first iteration of its Plum Book website in an effort to increase the transparency of senior Federal government leadership. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has named Eric Mill executive director for cloud strategy at GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) organization. […]
After two years of serving as chief data officer (CDO) at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Dr. Theodore Kaouk has moved to the new position of CDO and director of the Data Division at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) – an independent agency that oversees regulation of the U.S. derivatives markets – according to his LinkedIn account. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is looking for feedback on the updated draft of its ASCEND cloud services blanket purchase agreement (BPA), which looks to set up the agency as a prime destination for cloud solutions for agencies throughout the government. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has authorized a government-wide direct hire authority for artificial intelligence (AI) positions, in an effort to help with the AI hiring surge following President Biden’s recent AI executive order (EO). […]
Nikolaos Ipiotis has been tapped to serve as the new chief information officer (CIO) at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) – an independent agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that supports research in the biomedical and health breakthrough – according to his LinkedIn account. […]
Federal civilian employees can expect to officially receive a sizable pay raise in 2024 after President Biden signed an executive order implementing the increases. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to update their five-year-old arrangement to cooperate on improving medical device cybersecurity. […]
As the IRS moves toward testing out its new direct file system pilot in the coming tax season, the agency said it will be use ID.me identity verification technology to help identify participants in the pilot program, according to an IRS blog post. […]
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 Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is looking for feedback on the responsibilities that it’s undertaking as part of President Biden’s recent artificial intelligence (AI) executive order (EO). […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Dec. 15 released the results of a January 2023 Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (RVA) performed on an unidentified organization in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector that found exploitable misconfigurations and the use of weak passwords, among other cybersecurity weaknesses. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the appointment of Tess deBlanc-Knowles to the position of special assistant to the director for AI, effective on Dec. 12. […]
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. […]
With the IRS collecting more than $4.9 trillion in Federal taxes for fiscal year 2022 – totaling 96 percent of all government funding for that year – it’s more important than ever for the agency to speed the development of modernized services for taxpayers and more efficient tax collection for government. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a new report highlighting the potential benefits of using AI and machine learning (ML) technologies to forecast the weather for natural disasters such as severe storms, hurricanes, and wildfires. […]
In order to “maintain the integrity of its merit review process,” the National Science Foundation (NSF) has released new guidelines on the use of generative AI for both proposers and reviewers. […]