To highlight the one-year anniversary of the White House’s National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy (NCWES), the Biden administration held a workshop focused on expanding opportunities for veterans to obtain good-paying cyber jobs. […]

The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Michael Sulmeyer as the first-ever cyber policy chief for the Department of Defense (DoD). […]

The National Guard, which has traditionally relied on human analysts to assess aerial photos and video for damage after disasters, is now turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to expedite situation assessments and resource deployment, and address the challenges of rapidly evolving conditions on the ground. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) newly formed AI Safety Institute (AISI) released its first set of draft guidance last week, offering best practices for developers of AI foundation models to manage the risks that their models will be deliberately misused to cause harm. […]

The United States needs to significantly ramp up its Federal research and development (R&D) investments in AI technology to meet “the moment” of today’s rapidly evolving digital age, according to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Arati Prabhakar. […]

A new bipartisan bill would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop detailed guidelines for third-party evaluators to work with artificial intelligence companies to provide independent external verification of their systems. […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service have teamed up to utilize satellite data to detect and report wildfires swiftly. […]

The White House announced Friday that it has hit the nine-month mark of its AI Executive Order (EO), and Federal agencies remain on track with their required directives – with two agencies reporting they are ahead of schedule. […]

Several U.S. government agencies including the FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA) issued an advisory today warning about a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group that they say is conducting a “global espionage campaign” aimed at advancing North Korean military and nuclear programs. […]

A panel of government and industry experts on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is recommending that Federal government leaders focus on good data structure and governance policies as government agencies increasingly seek to put AI tech into play.   […]

A group of industry cybersecurity leaders told lawmakers today that harmonizing “overlapping and inconsistent” government cybersecurity regulations would help reduce the administrative burden on their cyber workforces and free up additional resources for fighting threats. […]

While generative AI technology has come a long way in the past couple of years, Federal AI experts explained today that the technology is not yet ready for the government to “fire and forget” the technology – meaning it still requires a human-in-the-loop after deployment. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today that Brandon Wales is stepping down as the agency’s executive director, and that Bridget Bean will take over as executive director next month. […]

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. […]

More than a dozen of the country’s largest technology providers and AI developers have launched the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), which they are billing as an open source community that aims to provide guidance and tools to practitioners and developers to create secure-by-design artificial intelligence systems. […]

Federal government operations affected by Friday’s Microsoft outage linked to the cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike appeared to recovering their footing today, including the Social Security Administration (SSA), which reopened its offices today. […]

Department of Defense (DoD) operations were unaffected by the ongoing Microsoft outage caused by a flawed CrowdStrike security update, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Friday. […]

Anne Neuberger, the White House’s deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, said that today’s CrowdStrike outage – one of the largest IT outages in history – highlights the need for a tough look at digital resilience capabilities. […]

The ongoing Microsoft outage caused through a faulty update by cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike has disrupted several Federal and state and local government (SLG) services nationwide. […]

As adversaries continue to leverage emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence to fuel their cyberattacks, cybersecurity experts today warned that a new strategic approach is needed to combat ever-evolving cyber risks. […]

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 bipartisan group of senators introduced a new bill last week that would direct the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to hire a special liaison to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to coordinate during cybersecurity incidents. […]

Global tech trade association ITI has released a first-of-its-kind AI Accountability Framework that highlights practices companies are using to develop and deploy AI technology safely and securely. […]

The U.S. Marine Corps on July 10 launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to guide the integration of AI technology across the service branch, ranging from administrative functions to combat operations. […]

International Trade Administration (ITA) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing Industry and Analysis Heather Evans said today that one of the biggest obstacles the private sector has when it comes to leveraging advanced technologies in manufacturing is “a lack of certainty around regulation.” […]

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. […]

Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, have introduced new legislation that would prohibit Federal agencies from buying technology products from “grey-market” sellers rather than authorized dealers. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is preparing to roll out a pilot version of its Olympus managed cloud environment in September, designed to offer advanced management capabilities specifically for Pentagon cloud users. […]

The White House on Wednesday released a memo for the heads of all Federal agencies laying out its “cross-agency cybersecurity investment priorities” for fiscal year (FY) 2026. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is gearing up to release its post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration roadmap soon, a top CISA official revealed Tuesday. […]