The chairs of the House Appropriations and Oversight and Reform committees are seeking a personal briefing by Monday, Nov. 23, from General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Emily Murphy on why GSA has yet to arrive at a judgement that Joe Biden is the apparent winner of the presidential election […]
Few things seem to unite Republicans and Democrats these days, but President Trump’s abrupt firing of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Christopher Krebs seems to be one of the issues bucking that trend. President Trump fired Krebs via his Twitter account on Tuesday evening, prompting a mix of outrage and disapproval from members of Congress […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released guidance for regulating AI applications, pursuant to Executive Order 13859, “Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.” […]
President Trump fired Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Christopher Krebs via his Twitter account on Tuesday evening. […]
The White House announced its intention today to name Basil Parker – currently chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – as the new Federal CIO. […]
President-Elect Joe Biden this week urged Congress to approve a COVID-19 stimulus bill similar to the HEROES Act approved by the House earlier this year, but didn’t get into further specifics about what he’d like to see in future relief legislation. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its Capital Planning Guidance for Fiscal Year 2022 budget planning, which mirrors past guidance in advancing the Technology Business Management (TBM) approach to budgeting for IT. […]
Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., is joining the senior White House staff of the incoming Biden-Harris administration, putting an experienced legislative voice on cybersecurity and related Federal IT issues in President-Elect Biden’s inner circle. […]
The chairs of the House Judiciary and Oversight and Reform committees warned the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and its Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) against engaging in “midnight rulemakings” in the waning days of the Trump administration that don’t give Congress adequate time to review the new rules. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued guidance on Nov. 12 for Federal agencies on accepting records requests digitally, and sets them on the path to setting up ways to do that over the next year. […]
Michael Rigas has become Acting Federal CIO, according to his social media presence and a Nov. 13 document that he signed in that capacity. […]
President-Elect Joe Biden today discussed with House and Senate Democratic leaders the need for urgent congressional action on further economic stimulus legislation to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. […]
President-Elect Joe Biden has named Ron Klain White House Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President. Klain has been a senior advisor to the Biden for President campaign, and was Biden’s chief of staff from 2009 to 2011 when he was Vice President. […]
Fresh off its six-figure fundraising total supporting last week’s victory by President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Sen. Kamala Harris, GovTech4Biden is moving on to its next mission of providing government technology policy inputs to the Biden-Harris transition team and the incoming Congress. […]
As the Trump Administration winds down over the next couple months, President-elect Joe Biden and his transition team have begun appointing agency transition leads to ensure a smooth transition of power. “These teams are composed of highly experienced and talented professionals with deep backgrounds in crucial policy areas across the Federal government,” the Biden-Harris Transition […]
Following the major news networks calling the 2020 Election on Nov. 7 in favor of now President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, congratulations poured in from big tech companies and CEOs. […]
The Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition (CPT) on Sunday urged the Trump administration to “immediately” begin the post-election transition process. […]
Confirmation of the appointment of Camilo Sandoval as the new Federal CISO has emerged in the form of his listing on the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) CIO.gov website as holding the Federal CISO title. […]
Accelerating the pace of change by bringing in motivated innovators and new ideas from startups and small businesses can be an effective way of driving real innovation across the Federal government, Deputy Federal CIO Maria Roat said today at the ACT-IAC ReImagine ELC 2020 virtual event. […]
An executive order (EO) released on October 21 creates a new classification in the Federal workforce for career professionals in “policy-making” positions, with provisions that could make it easier to hire and fire employees and prevent them from joining unions. […]
A new paper from ACT-IAC – “Accelerating Agility in Government” – proposes that the Federal government adopt an “Agile First” policy so that it becomes more proactive and responsive to changes affecting the country. The new paper expands on ACT-IAC’s Agenda 2021 document released in July and entitled “Delivery Outcomes, Building Trust.” […]
The White House released the National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies (C&ET) today, identifying 20 technologies as priorities and highlighting the need to support and secure their research and development. […]
Federal agencies have made significant progress on open data, but the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has not issued implementation guidance or performance reports under the OPEN Government Data Act, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). […]
A new report from the White House’s National Quantum Coordination Office (NQCO) identifies eight quantum technology “frontier” areas that it says contain “core problems with fundamental questions” confronting quantum information science (QIS). […]
The White House issued an executive order on October 5 directing several Federal agencies to create a Coronavirus Mental Health Working Group. The group is charged with mounting an “all of government” response to “mental-health conditions induced or exacerbated” the coronavirus pandemic, including issues related to suicide prevention. […]
The most consequential presidential election in a generation is just four weeks away, and it’s time for the government technology community to stand up and be counted. […]
To harness the power of data science across the Federal government, Deputy Federal CIO Maria Roat said that agencies are launching a new subject matter expert hiring initiative alongside the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) data science reskilling program. […]
President Trump today signed a continuing budget resolution that will fund Federal government operations at Fiscal Year 2020 spending levels through Dec. 11. The President’s approval of funding legislation passed by the House Sept. 22 and the Senate Sept. 30 narrowly averted a government shutdown following the end of FY2020 yesterday. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has awarded six agencies across the Federal government with Gears of Government President’s Awards today honoring their innovative contributions to service delivery. […]
Officials from the United States and the United Kingdom have signed a declaration to establish a government-to-government dialogue on artificial intelligence and further cooperation in AI research and development. […]