Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, raised concerns during a committee hearing today that President Trump’s hiring freeze could worsen the growing cybersecurity workforce gap in the Federal government and get in the way of ongoing efforts to address the critical shortage. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is advising Federal agencies to move forward with their plans to return to in-person work, despite current telework-related contracts with Federal employee unions. […]
Long-time Federal government IT and cybersecurity leader Karen Evans has returned to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a senior advisor in the agency’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) component, DHS confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
The U.S. government has teamed up with international partners to help take down the infrastructure of two of the largest cybercrime marketplaces in the world known as Cracked and Nulled. […]
Federal agencies across the government are increasingly adapting new uses of artificial intelligence to streamline processes, aggregate data, and even complete tasks designed for human resources staff. And while some have openly embraced AI and its uses, others still don’t believe it can be trusted for operations in nuclear controls. […]
The National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC), which advises the president and the White House on the National AI Initiative, approved a draft report this week with 10 focus areas for President Trump to pursue during his second term. […]
Think-tank panelists at a Jan. 29 Congressional Internet Caucus Academy event talked about possible avenues for artificial intelligence development and Federal cybersecurity improvements during the 119th Congress. […]
The Air Force’s latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI) innovation are expected to take flight this year, Air Force Maj. Gen. Joe Kunkel said during Defense One’s “AI in the Skies” program on Jan. 28. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) plans to release updates to the DoD Cyber Workforce Framework (DCWF) work role codes – including revised educational requirements – with the release date still to be determined, as part of ongoing efforts to refine and standardize cybersecurity roles across the department. […]
Chief data officers (CDOs) at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said they are modernizing their agencies’ use of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. […]
Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., a leading voice on cybersecurity issues in Congress, announced on Tuesday that he will not seek reelection in 2026. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found that facial recognition software used to identify travelers is more than 99 percent accurate on average, according to a Jan. 17 report. […]
The White House late Thursday issued an executive order from President Donald Trump that aims for his administration to develop a Federal government “action plan” on artificial intelligence technologies within the next six months. […]
From overturning numerous Federal workforce policy pillars to canceling a well-regarded executive order about how the government should approach artificial intelligence technologies, the new Trump administration has been issuing a small blizzard of more than two dozen executive orders since taking office on Monday that are sweeping away numerous orders issued by President Biden during his term in office. […]
Legislation that would provide Federal scholarship support in exchange for two years of service in cybersecurity roles with governments at all levels sits at the top of the legislative agenda for House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., who talked about the measure’s importance during a committee hearing today. […]
President Trump pledged on Jan. 21 to help facilitate electric power and other assistance to a consortium of artificial intelligence (AI) tech firms who said this week they plan to invest $100 billion in AI infrastructure as part of what they are calling The Stargate Project. […]
The Defense Information System Agency (DISA) has initiated the integration of its digital “Concierge AI” platform, beginning with its application in human resources, the agency’s technology chief said on Jan. 17. […]
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is planning to adopt artificial intelligence into its operations and assess how the emerging technology impacts intellectual property (IP) rights, according to its 2025 AI strategy released on Jan. 14. […]
The Trump administration has fulfilled its promise of revoking the Biden-era executive order on artificial intelligence which has served as a framework for Federal agencies approach to the emerging technology for over a year now. […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ending remote work for Federal employees and ordering them to return to the office “on a full-time basis.” […]
President Donald Trump is following through on his promise to bring teleworking Federal employees back into the office, according to the first official statement issued by his team on Monday, although it remains unclear exactly how many Feds his action might cover. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has failed to effectively implement the process for authorizing third-party organizations to conduct Level 2 assessments under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0, according to a Jan.14 audit report by the DoD Office of Inspector General (OIG). […]
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., are backing the conclusions from a new report the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Federal Cloud Policy published on Jan. 16 that highlights the critical need for Federal agencies to accelerate the adoption of cloud technologies. […]
President Biden’s latest cybersecurity-themed executive order issued today aims to engineer security improvements in at least a dozen major areas, with Federal agency systems, cloud services, and software emerging as prominent topics on an exhaustive list of security policy items. […]
Democrats and Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee showed deep divisions of opinion on the value of telework for Federal government agencies, and whether increased telework since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic has helped or harmed the ability of agencies to deliver services to citizens. […]
The Senate held a pre-nomination hearing on Wednesday for Chris Wright – Trump’s nominee for Department of Energy secretary – in which Wright outlined his plans for expanding nuclear energy technology, AI development, and quantum technology. […]
President Biden today issued an executive order that directs the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Energy (DoE) to lease Federal government sites and allow private sector companies to use them in order to “build frontier AI infrastructure at speed and scale” all while powering those facilities with new clean energy sources. […]
The White House announced a new framework today that aims to maintain U.S. leadership in AI by keeping advanced computing chips and AI models under the control of the United States and its allies. […]
As part of the Federal government’s plan to get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, it tasked the Department of Energy (DoE) with bolstering fusion energy commercialization – but the department needs to improve its planning and better sustain its efforts toward that goal, a Federal government watchdog report says. […]
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, reintroduced a trio of bills this week that aim to track computer usage for teleworking and in-office Federal employees, as well as relocate Federal agency headquarters outside of Washington, D.C. […]