The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) – a trade group focused on partnerships to address intelligence and national security priorities – is pushing for creation of a Cyber National Guard to defend against attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure and other targets. […]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help evaluate pharmaceutical products, the agency announced in a small business source sought notice published to Sam.gov last week.   […]

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly warned on Thursday that the United States needs to quickly determine the regulatory landscape for development of AI technologies, which she said have the potential to become the most consequential – and perhaps dangerous – technologies of the 21st century. […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a series of enhancements to online consumer application system for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The FCC said the enhancements will make it easier for eligible consumers to apply and enroll in the program. […]

AI will not replace humans, but humans using AI will replace humans not using AI, the Coast Guard’s chief data officer (CDO) stated Thursday at ATARC’s Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Breakfast Summit. […]

Taking a human-in-the-loop approach is crucial to building trust in AI, Federal experts said today, but they also said it’s critical to have a data and AI literacy program to ensure those humans are adequately trained. […]

More freedom to share data is vital to the success of developing AI technologies that meet the needs of Federal agencies, government officials said today. […]

The Department of Energy (DoE) has not been keeping up with adequately monitoring and authorizing its cloud services,  according to a new report released by the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). […]

The deputy director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education said today that her team will be releasing the first Federal report on AI in education in the coming weeks. […]

The Department of Defense is collaborating with Federal civilian agencies to impose a new Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) rule that would apply new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) requirements to vendors that handle controlled unclassified information, according to the DoD CMMC lead. […]

The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) released a new white paper last week that outlines the importance of public-private collaboration in cybersecurity.  […]

President Joe Biden met with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on Tuesday to discuss the risks and opportunities that AI technologies pose, a White House official said in a statement to MeriTalk. […]

Reps. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., and Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., introduced legislation on Wednesday to ensure better security of Department of Defense (DoD) computer systems through AI-enabled cybersecurity programs. […]

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) announced this week the establishment of the Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies. […]

The IRS’s Enterprise Case Management (ECM) System failed to meet all established cloud security requirements identified in reviews stretching back to 2021, according to a recent report from the Treasury Department’s Inspector General (IG). […]

Cloud security provider Zscaler has named Laura Fritzlen Vice President, Public Sector Alliances and Channels. […]

The perfect data management approach doesn’t exist, according to government experts. And because nobody’s perfect, they advised organizations to stop striving for perfection in data management and instead settle for “good enough” to reach effectiveness. […]

A new watchdog report found that the Department of Defense’s (DoD) networks remain vulnerable three years after military services misconfigured remote access software.  […]

U.S. Army officials said this week that they are relying on bring-your-own-device (BYOD) technologies to connect service members and provide secure access to government data, with a focus on Army Reserve and National Guard units that have the most geographically dispersed and complex IT user population across the Federal government. […]

March 31 – which for years has been marked in the technology community as World Backup Day – also qualifies as a great reminder to governments, businesses, and citizens that putting into place correct data backup strategies is a strong front-line defense against the scourge of ransomware attacks. […]

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and five other Federal government agencies have announcedcreation of a prototype version of an integrated data and knowledge infrastructure program that they say will form the basis of a far-reaching “open knowledge network.” […]

A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced legislation that aims to boost the physical and digital security of Federal data centers against potential threats. […]

The Cybersecurity Tech Accord (CTA) – a coalition of more than 150 private sector cybersecurity companies – has released a set of principles to guide the technology industry forward in curbing “cyber mercenaries.” […]

Aaron Weis, the former Department of the Navy chief information officer (CIO), started a new job Monday as the managing director of technology at Google Public Sector (GPS). […]

A new agency watchdog report has found fundamental cybersecurity deficiencies at the Department of Commerce’s (DoC) Office of the Secretary (OS) that increase the risk of cyberattacks. […]

The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is pursuing a multi-cloud hybrid strategy that gives users greater choices and changes the portion of computing that remains on-premise – which is critical when bringing capabilities to disparate environments – the agency’s top tech official said on March 21. […]

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is doing a major upgrade of the Federal government’s 30-year-old top-secret network, with cloud services playing a major factor in the modernization effort, a senior DIA official said on March 23. […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on March 22 that it is gathering data on the U.S. cloud computing market and its service providers to get a better handle on the market power of providers, their impact on competition, and “potential security risks.” […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Hosting and Compute Center (HaCC) is looking to industry for help to quickly prototype an on-premises centralized network control plane to help manage a large collection of hybrid and multi-cloud environments as the agency moves forward with contract awards for its $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) project. […]

Sharon Woods, the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Hosting and Computer Center (HaCC), today emphasized the three components that have led the HaCC to be the Department of Defense’s (DoD) provider of choice for cloud and hybrid environments – the customer and their mission, optionality of services, and ease of adoption. […]