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. […]
Federal housing regulators need to exercise stronger oversight of facial recognition and other technology tools used in public housing operations, a Federal watchdog says in a new report, warning that without clearer rules, the technology could fuel discrimination against renters. […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the winners of its inaugural AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a two-year competition aimed at advancing the use of artificial intelligence to secure critical open-source software systems. […]
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said it has taken down servers operated by a Russian ransomware group that compromised over 450 victims within the United States in just over two years. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today ordered Federal government agencies to take mitigation steps to deal with a Microsoft Exchange Vulnerability that the agency warned about on Wednesday night, and to finish that work by 9 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, Aug. 11. […]
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. […]
The clock is ticking for contractors to comply with the Department of Defense’s (DoD) long-anticipated cybersecurity compliance policy. By Oct. 1, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) clause could start appearing in all applicable DoD contracts. […]
A new private-sector commission aims to accelerate U.S. military readiness in cyberspace by examining the development of an independent cyber force for the military. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today that it has added three prominent generative AI services to the agency’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), and is open to adding additional services. […]
The U.S. Army is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to help manage airspace operations, as the environment grows increasingly complex with the rapid proliferation of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) – more commonly known as drones. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on August 1 that it is offering $103.8 million of grant funding to state, local, and tribal governments to “strengthen community cybersecurity.” […]
The State Department and the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs & Border Protection component are two of the latest Federal agencies to deploy artificial intelligence-driven chat bots and virtual reality systems to guide their hiring processes and support workforce training – with more use cases on the horizon – agency officials said on July 29. […]
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. […]
Federal agency use cases for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies rose sharply last year, signaling increased interest in GenAI tech deployments across the 11 agencies reviewed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a new report. […]
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. […]
Federal Chief Information Officer Greg Barbaccia has been appointed to the additional position of Federal chief AI officer as the Trump administration begins work executing on the ambitious agenda laid out in the AI Action Plan released by the White House on July 23. […]
President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan released on July 23 issues a warning to states that create their own regulations for artificial intelligence technologies by saying those states should not be recipients of Federal government AI-related funding going forward. […]
Veterans living in rural America are being left behind by Federal healthcare systems due to shortages of robust broadband services and limited telehealth access, lawmakers and witnesses warned on July 25 during a field hearing of the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization. […]
The Trump administration is designating the Federal government’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Council (CAIOC) as the “primary venue for interagency coordination and collaboration on AI adoption,” according to the White House’s AI Action Plan published on July 23. […]
Over the past several years the Department of Defense (DoD) has aggressively pursued cloud migration to modernize its digital infrastructure, but without careful planning, that cloud sprint can end up creating visibility gaps and fragmented systems — hindering real-time response and stalling the move toward more proactive, unified operations, a Pentagon tech official said on July 24. […]
The White House issued its AI Action Plan this week, which includes a recommendation to establish an “AI global alliance” with key allies to ensure adversaries do not get their hands on technologies that the United States is looking to impose export controls on. […]
While the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan published this week features numerous novel approaches to keep the United States in a leading position in the global AI development and deployment race, one of the most striking of those is its call to develop a commodity-like market for compute resources. […]
President Donald Trump’s new action plan on artificial intelligence (AI) calls on the Pentagon to rapidly adopt AI solutions across the Department of Defense (DoD) ecosystem — from warfighting to back-office operations. […]
The White House released its long-awaited AI Action Plan today with a renewed focus on easing permitting requirements to promote faster buildouts of data centers and semiconductor manufacturing plants in the United States. […]
There are going to be millions of AI-directed robots existing among us in the next few years, and it’s time for Congress to get ready for that reality. […]
Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mark Warner, D-Va., are sounding the alarm over cybersecurity gaps at rural hospitals due to Medicaid funding cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill budget reconciliation package approved by Congress earlier this month. […]
Top artificial intelligence practitioners, developers, and visionaries across government and the private sector gathered on Thursday evening at MeriTalk’s Tech Tonic event in Washington, D.C., to honor the 2025 class of AI Honors Award Winners. […]
The next wave of Federal quantum funding will be focused on the deployment of quantum technologies, a top Trump administration official disclosed on Thursday, saying the administration already has plans underway to reach that deployment stage. […]
Officials with both the National Guard Bureau and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed to MeriTalk today that the China-based Salt Typhoon hacking group targeted National Guard networks for attacks between March and December 2024. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on Wednesday a new partnership with Voltage Park in support of the agency’s National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot. […]