With the increasing buzz of AI technology making its way into government and private industry operations, a bipartisan pair of senators have sent a letter to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) seeking to understand actions the government is currently taking to develop AI standards that “promote trust and transparency for Americans.” […]
A bipartisan group of senators introduced new legislation on Tuesday that would ban the use of artificial intelligence to generate deceptive content to influence Federal elections. […]
As big tech CEOs descend on Washington for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s, D-N.Y., first AI insight forum on Wednesday, the heads of the Senate AI Caucus previewed the closed-door meeting and discussed efforts to regulate the rapidly evolving technology on Sept. 12. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its new Open Source Software Security Roadmap today that lays out the agency’s path forward to help ensure a secure open source software ecosystem within the Federal government. […]
In the midst of developing an executive order on AI to “protect Americans’ rights and safety,” the Biden-Harris administration announced it has secured voluntary commitments from eight additional AI private sector heavyweights. […]
Sens. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., sent a letter to Acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden last week, encouraging the White House to provide updates on efforts to reduce artificial intelligence’s potential threat to the nation’s cyber infrastructure. […]
As quantum computing and related capabilities slowly but surely move closer to becoming practical realities, Federal government officials are confident that the U.S. will remain the global leader in quantum computing and quantum encryption. […]
The head of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) data science and artificial intelligence (AI) efforts said that government agencies should consider how to apply AI to cybersecurity operations but warned that they also need to heavily focus on how adversaries will leverage the emerging tool against them. […]
Federal agencies have increasingly adopted a human-centered approach to IT modernization to improve customer experience across the Federal government, and a key contributor to those efforts are the fruits of public-private partnerships. […]
Erin Lavik has taken over as chief technology officer (CTO) and deputy director in the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), according to her LinkedIn profile. […]
Federal Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Chris DeRusha said late Thursday that new cybersecurity metrics are helping the Federal government to better measure its success in moving towards an improved risk posture. […]
President Biden on Sept. 7 extended a national emergency order dating back to 2018 and warning of the potential for overseas meddling in U.S. elections. […]
While it’s clear that artificial intelligence (AI) technology is here to stay, a top Defense Department (DoD) tech official said this week that DoD must embrace the technology, but also proceed with caution. […]
The Justice Department (DoJ) said this week that Verizon Business Network Services agreed to pay a fine of $4.09 million to the government after failing to “completely satisfy certain cybersecurity controls in connection with an information technology service provided to federal agencies.” […]
The State Department is currently working on a new comprehensive version of an international cyber strategy that it will be circulating around the agency and government this fall. […]
A recently disclosed Chinese hack of Commerce and State Department officials’ emails was found to be linked to a Microsoft engineer’s compromised corporate account, the tech giant announced in a blog post this week. […]
In order to create a more robust cybersecurity workforce, security experts explained on Wednesday that cybersecurity education needs to start at the K-12 level. […]
As the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) finishes up the rulemaking process for the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA), CISA Director Jen Easterly said today that trusted partnerships are vital to sharing threat information in the meantime. […]
Just six months after the White House released its National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS), Acting National Cyber Director (NCD) Kemba Walden said that her office is looking forward to publishing a posture report. […]
Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee are keeping up their pressure on the White House for data on Federal employees’ work from home habits, and on policy changes being pursued by the Biden administration that will return more Feds to their traditional office locations. […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) has wrapped up a 60-day study to look at how the use of AI technology fits into the agency’s future, according to Gen. Paul Nakasone, who heads both NSA and the U.S. Cyber Command. […]
The Department of the Air Force on Aug. 31 issued a broad agency announcement (BAA) on the development of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to support the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative. […]
Nearly 30 agencies published their artificial intelligence (AI) use case inventories for the past year, detailing hundreds of ways the Federal government is leveraging the emerging technology across the globe – ranging from preventing veteran suicide to fighting climate change-induced hurricanes. […]
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., on Aug. 29 reintroduced his Improving Contractor Cybersecurity Act, which aims to require vendors that wish to do business with the United States government to maintain vulnerability disclosure policies (VDP) and programs. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DoD) organization responsible for protecting and defending its network globally is adopting a three-part approach to improve cyber readiness and cybersecurity tactics across the department, a senior DoD official said this week. […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is prioritizing funding Federal government operations beyond fiscal year 2023 which ends on Sept. 30, along with kicking off a set of briefings for senators on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, when the Senate returns to session in Washington on Sept. 6. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is looking to fund up to five new National AI Research Institutes that will specialize in AI for astronomical sciences, AI for discovery in materials research, and strengthening AI technologies, NSF wrote in a recent solicitation. […]
Ahead of its second round of funding for tribal access to broadband internet services, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to provide better feedback to applicants who were denied full project funding in the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program’s first application round. […]
The Department of the Air Force is seeking to bring more workers into the Cyber Excepted Service (CES) to increasingly recruit and retain civilian cyber professionals, the department’s chief information officer (CIO) said this week. […]
The Department of Commerce (DoC) established a new data working group this week that aims to prepare public data to be AI-ready, according to DoC Chief Data Officer (CDO) Oliver Wise. […]