A group of bicameral Democrats has introduced legislation that aims to shore up the power of federal agencies’ inspectors general in response to the Trump administration’s purge of agency watchdogs. […]
Rep. Ken Calvert, D-Calif., has renewed his push to strengthen how emerging small business technologies are identified and invested in by the Department of Defense (DOD) – which the Trump Administration has rebranded as the Department of War. […]
Senate Democrats introduced a bill on Thursday that would pay all federal employees, servicemembers, and contractors during the current government shutdown, as well as prevent the Trump administration’s mass firings. […]
A new bipartisan bill would direct the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) to help small businesses evaluate and adopt artificial intelligence. […]
Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., have reached a bipartisan agreement on legislation to advance a sweeping aviation safety bill aimed at closing a longstanding military aircraft surveillance loophole. […]
Legislation introduced in the Senate on Thursday will require artificial intelligence systems used within healthcare settings to have an option to override decisions made by AI to maintain human judgment in health decisions. […]
Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., are leading efforts to reestablish legal protections for cyber threat information sharing between the federal government and industry after those protections expired last week. […]
A bicameral bill introduced on Tuesday by Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., and Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., aims to provide timely relief to federal employees who have been illegally fired or subjected to other unjust personnel practices. […]
The government shutdown and Congress’s failure to reauthorize the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA 15) have put cyber defenses at risk, cybersecurity experts are warning, saying the pressure is now on state and local governments and industry members. […]
A pair of bipartisan senators introduced new legislation on Monday that would require a new evaluation program for advanced AI systems before they can be deployed, with steep penalties for developers who do not comply. […]
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has reintroduced the Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets (SAMOSA) Act, a bill originally filed this Congress by the late Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly. […]
Legislation that would fund artificial intelligence scholarships, centers, and teaching resources to expand education and cyber workforce training was introduced Tuesday by Rep. Vince Fong, D-Calif. […]
Legislation introduced by a pair of bipartisan lawmakers would require the departments of Energy, Interior, and Agriculture to assess the impact of proposed artificial intelligence data centers on rural communities. […]
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced today the first bill of several yet to come that he says will provide a “light-touch” regulatory approach to safe AI development and deployment by reducing the regulatory burden placed on AI developers. […]
A bipartisan duo of House lawmakers has introduced a bill that would eliminate some educational requirements for cybersecurity-related positions within the federal government. […]
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers on Aug. 8 introduced the Quantum Encryption Readiness and Resilience Act, which aims to speed the pace of preparedness by the United States for the onset of quantum computing technologies that can break through most modern cryptography methods. […]
New legislation introduced by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., last Thursday seeks to block foreign adversaries from using internet-connected appliances to infiltrate and disrupt the United States’ electric grid. […]
Top Democrats are launching a probe into Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees embedded across Federal agencies and their alleged conversion to permanent positions. […]
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is taking another stab at directing the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to collaborate with Federal and industry partners to develop guidelines for how third-party evaluators verify the testing and development of artificial intelligence systems. […]
A bipartisan pair of senators has introduced legislation that would establish a national plan to defend Federal systems against emerging quantum computing threats. […]
In Congress’s latest attempt to regulate artificial intelligence, House and Senate lawmakers are reintroducing legislation to promote public-private collaboration on testing financial sector AI systems. […]
Congress is cracking down on the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) lagging IT modernization efforts via new legislation introduced by a bipartisan pair of House members who want to push the agency to upgrade its IT systems. […]
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said on Tuesday that he is drafting legislation to address TikTok’s national security and privacy issues and trying to find “the sweet spot” to keep the social media app online in the United States. […]
House lawmakers last week approved two pieces of legislation that would add significant new network security and policy taskings to the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) component. […]
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., reintroduced a bill on Thursday that would direct the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to use blockchain technology to improve how veterans receive their benefits and services. […]
President Donald Trump signed a massive reconciliation package into law on Friday that features several cyber and AI-related provisions, including those aimed at bolstering the Pentagon’s tech capabilities, building up rural healthcare systems, and adding more tools for monitoring the country’s borders. […]
Now that the Senate has pushed its version of reconciliation funding over the finish line amid a blizzard of changes to the bill, here’s a look at a few workforce and tech items that either failed to make the final version of the legislation, or were beaten back on the funding front during the process. […]
The U.S. Senate voted early Tuesday morning to drop from its reconciliation legislation a controversial 10-year moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence tech after the proposed ban met significant bipartisan pushback. […]
Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House aims to push Federal agencies to adopt electronic tools that simplify how Americans access help from the government. […]
Reps. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., and Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., reintroduced the Federal Improvement in Technology (FIT) Procurement Act on Wednesday in an effort to streamline the Federal procurement process for agencies and their contractors. […]