President Biden today signed a new national security memorandum (NSM) that aims to better protect U.S. critical infrastructure sectors by enlisting U.S. intelligence agencies to ramp up their sharing of threat data across multiple levels of government and with private-sector critical infrastructure providers. […]
The Biden administration announced on Monday that it awarded a record-breaking $178.6 to small businesses in fiscal year (FY) 2023, representing 28.4 percent of all contracting dollars and an increase of about $16 billion from FY2022. […]
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) appointed combat veteran Liz Young McNally to serve as the new deputy director for commercial operations, the organization announced Monday. […]
In March, MeriTalk recognized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at the annual FITARA Awards ceremony for winning in the “Most Improved” category. EPA’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Tonya Manning told MeriTalk in an exclusive interview that the agency is keeping up the momentum by moving forward on several innovative cyber and IT projects – including AI implementation and supply chain cybersecurity. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on April 29 offered up new guidance and analysis on the use of artificial intelligence technologies in two particularly sensitive areas: weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and the 16 U.S. sectors classified by the Federal government as critical infrastructure. […]
While the 2030 Census is still years away, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report reveals the U.S. Census Bureau still has some work to do to improve its IT modernization efforts critical to that mission. […]
The General Services Administration said on April 26 that it plans to create a new Open Government Federal Advisory Committee that will help the agency ride herd over the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan released by the Biden administration in late 2022. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced at a White House event today that the agency is launching a project to overhaul the Federal government’s hiring process for the IT management job series – transitioning to a fully skills-based approach by the summer of 2025. […]
The U.S. Air Force is calling on industry for solutions to improve the service branch’s sensor architecture and degrade adversaries’ ability to target U.S. forces. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board, which will consider ways to promote the safe and secure use of AI technology in U.S. critical infrastructure. […]
As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s approach towards harnessing the benefits of AI and ensuring its responsible and safe deployment, the Department of Energy (DoE) today released a summary report on the potential benefits and risks of AI use for critical energy infrastructure. […]
The ladders up the technology ranks have always been steeper for women, and Tech Tonic is gathering the Federal tech community on May 16 to celebrate all who persevere on that journey. […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Secret Service component is making progress on identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) improvements that are at the core of its progress toward creating zero trust security architectures, the agency’s chief information security officer (CISO) said. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a supplement on April 22 to its digital identity guidance that offers interim guidance to agencies looking to use “syncable authenticators” – such as passkeys – in both enterprise-facing and public-facing use cases. […]
With tax season finally over, the IRS is touting the success of its Direct File pilot after officially closing the new service that helped over 140,000 taxpayers file their Federal tax returns. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has tapped Michael Boyce to lead its AI Corps, which the agency established back in February. […]
As the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) celebrates the one-year anniversary of its Secure by Design initiative, the agency is looking to elevate the effort in public conversation and have customers make more demands of software vendors. […]
For the first time ever, an experimental fighter jet squared off against an F-16 aircraft in an artificial intelligence (AI) – fueled simulated dogfight, the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced last week. […]
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) – which was created by Congress in 1999 to provide oversight of the Internal Revenue Service – claimed credit this week for helping the IRS prevent the potentially fraudulent use of $3.5 billion of tax credits. […]
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) published a new report stating that legacy IT systems at the Department of Labor (DoL) and state and local governments are an overarching issue within the DoL’s unemployment insurance (UI) program. […]
The U.S. Navy official in charge of creating improved customer experience (CX) within the military service branch is expecting “big changes” to result from that effort. […]
When it comes to improving customer experience (CX), leveraging website analytics is top of mind for Joe Carter, the director of CX at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is giving defense agencies fresh direction on achieving continuous authorization for DevSecOps platforms. […]
The Department of Commerce announced today it has reached a preliminary agreement with Micron Technology for up to $6.14 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to build leading-edge memory semiconductors in the United States. […]
A new report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which is set to be released next week, focuses on several strong use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) tools in scientific research. […]
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) – which performs most of the Federal government’s security vetting tasks – is looking to expand the process of continuous vetting across the Federal government later this year while also exploring the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into that process. […]
NASA’s interstellar spacecraft, Voyager 1, is coming back online, the space agency announced on April 22. […]
The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Wednesday that some of the agency’s key ransomware initiatives have sent out more than 2,000 warnings of vulnerabilities over the last year. […]
Getting the right information to the right people at the right time is important in every industry and every geography, but it is paramount to national defense and intelligence efforts. […]
The Pentagon’s administrative and management support agency has developed and will soon implement a customer experience (CX) management plan, an agency official said on Tuesday. […]