Smarter Gov Tech, Stronger MerITocracy

The Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) expired at midnight after Congress failed to reauthorize them – a casualty of the broader shutdown fight. […]

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.   […]

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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging House Appropriations Committee leaders to include language in an upcoming short-term continuing resolution (CR) to protect NASA funding from proposed cuts by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). […]

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. […]

With elections on the horizon, a pair of Democratic senators are pressing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for answers on foreign threats to U.S. elections, raising concerns that she may have curtailed critical intelligence reporting on foreign election interference.  […]

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.   […]

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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. […]

A group of Republican senators is asking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to investigate data security vulnerabilities posed by Chinese open-source AI models – such as DeepSeek – that might be feeding information back to the Chinese government.  […]

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 group of Democratic senators has introduced a new bill that aims to protect Americans’ privacy by requiring an audit of Federal agency computer systems and networks accessed by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). […]

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As adversaries are increasingly leveraging AI and deepfakes in their cyberattacks, the chief information security officer (CISO) for the U.S. House of Representatives on July 29 stressed the importance of adapting security awareness training to keep up with the emerging technologies. […]

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The White House’s newly issued AI Action Plan looks to cement U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence, but White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Michael Kratsios said on Wednesday that the “ultimate solution” to win the AI race requires Congress. […]

CISA

Sean Plankey, who is President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), pledged at his Senate nomination hearing today to focus on the agency’s primary security missions and to push for more resources from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Congress if those are required. […]

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.   […]

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