As Federal agencies are looking to improve customer experience (CX) across government, government officials at the Feb. 22 Digital Transformation Summit hosted by ACT-IAC and Carahsoft shared some of the ways they’re driving towards that goal, including through website modernization. […]
The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released a report today calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surface in cyberspace by adopting memory safe programming languages and developing better cyber diagnostics. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established a two-year partnership with the nonprofit Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC) to secure biotechnologies from risks associated by artificial intelligence (AI) systems. […]
As government officials are whipping up their digital transformation recipes, some Federal technology experts – or should we say chefs – shared their secret ingredients at the Digital Transformation Summit hosted by ACT-IAC and Carahsoft on Feb. 22. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and FBI published a joint fact sheet on Feb. 21 outlining the top cybersecurity actions water and wastewater systems sector (WWS) entities can take to improve their cyber resiliency. […]
Cybersecurity services provider CrowdStrike is taking a look into 2024 and seeing plenty of work to be done defending against sophisticated attacks driven by artificial intelligence technologies, along with defending the integrity of elections. […]
The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) component said today it will soon be asking for public comment on the “risks, benefits, and potential policy” of open-weight artificial intelligence models. […]
President Biden signed a new executive order (EO) today that looks to strengthen the cybersecurity of our nation’s ports, as well as bolster maritime cybersecurity and supply chains more generally. […]
The National Institutes of Health IT Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) is looking to extend the Chief Information Officer–Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) contract – which helps provide IT solutions and services across the government – for another six months according to an agency official. […]
The House of Representatives officially launched its bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) today to help move along legislative proposals to regulate the evolving technology. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is seeking feedback from Federal AI experts as part of a new governmentwide survey that will result in a finalized AI Competency Model. […]
The Department of Justice (DoJ) and FBI, along with the U.K. National Crime Agency’s (NCA) Cyber Division and other international law enforcement partners, announced today that they have disrupted the LockBit ransomware group – one of the most active ransomware groups in the world. […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released its updated list of critical and emerging technologies (CET) for 2024, marking the first update to the CETs in two years. […]
Lisa Monaco, deputy attorney general at the Justice Department (DoJ), announced last week the launch of Justice AI – a new initiative that aims to understand and prepare for how the emerging technology will affect the criminal justice system. […]
The Cloud Safe Task Force – comprised of four nonprofits: MITRE, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC), and the IT Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC) – published a paper on Feb. 14 offering recommendations for Congress, the White House, Federal agencies, and industry to improve government cloud security. […]
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., surfaced a range of fresh opinions on the future of AI policy from economic and academic experts this week as he is working on possible legislation that could provide tax credits to companies developing AI tech as an inducement to give their employees more of a stake in the success of those firms. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs needs to take a measured approach to adopting and scaling artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to improve health care of veterans, and inform veterans about how their health information is being used in connection with AI tech, lawmakers said during a Feb. 15 House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs subcommittee oversight hearing. […]
Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) John Sherman has released new cybersecurity guidance on information sharing, best practices, and training for international partners looking to develop their cybersecurity standards and procedures. […]
Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has introduced bipartisan legislation that aims to strengthen America’s workforce pipeline in artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and other critical technologies. […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has a new policy out that embraces the use of AI in innovation, while also stressing the importance that a human contributor is named on a patent. […]
Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., issued a call today to her fellow lawmakers to approve artificial intelligence (AI) regulatory legislation that will ensure AI users are protected from harms, especially those in marginalized communities. […]
Top Federal officials said this week that President Biden’s recent artificial intelligence (AI) executive order (EO) will prove to be most significant in the role that it will play in recruiting talent to the Federal government. […]
Who are your favorite Cyber Defenders – the security leaders both in the Federal government and tech industry who are going above and beyond in advancing the mission, leading cybersecurity modernization, and defending against threats? […]
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said today he’s hopeful that Congress will work together in a bipartisan way to approve between five and 10 meaningful AI-related bills this year, leveraging a proposed House AI working group to help get that job done. […]
A Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) official said today that the agency’s ongoing pilot efforts to provide cloud services to military service branches outside the continental U.S. (OCONUS) are proceeding well thus far, but that the ultimate goal of the pilots – to make overseas cloud services easy to use for all warfighting use cases – still remains on the horizon. […]
Top officials from several private sector firms that are helping the Federal government modernize its technology and cybersecurity capabilities told MeriTalk that last week’s FITARA Scorecard gradings for the largest Federal agencies in several IT-driven categories are shining a necessary light on government’s need to make more progress in implementing longstanding cloud policy directives. […]
Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and John Thune, R-S.D., introduced a new bill on Feb. 7 that would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop cybersecurity guidelines for the Federal government’s use of drone vehicles. […]
One expert in health-related AI technology warned members of Congress on Feb. 8 that guardrails for the emerging technology will only serve the few organizations that are “already on the AI adoption highway,” and called on lawmakers to invest in underserved communities so all people in the U.S. can benefit from AI in healthcare. […]
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Feb. 6 voted to approve the Government Service Delivery Improvement Act, which aims to improve customer experience and accountability across the Federal government in part by creating a new senior management position at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) devoted to improving customer experience. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is making a change in how it addresses remote work and telework by adding new preconditions – some focusing on data classification levels – outlined in an updated telework policy that marks the Pentagon’s first formal update to the policy since 2012. […]