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The General Services Administration’s (GSA) FedRAMP 20x initiative has announced its first four authorizations since the 20x revamp effort was unveiled on March 24. […]

President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan released on July 23  issues a warning to states that create their own regulations for artificial intelligence technologies by saying those states should not be recipients of Federal government AI-related funding going forward. […]

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A new report published on Monday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that the Social Security Administration (SSA) is failing to properly oversee $2 billion – or 90 percent – of its annual IT budget, raising concerns about the agency’s ability to manage its IT portfolio effectively. […]

Military AI

The Department of Defense (DoD) is launching an 18-month transition to replace its legacy DS Logon authentication system in favor of a new platform – dubbed myAuth – which aims to simplify and secure login access across military and veteran networks for about 20 million users. […]

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Veterans living in rural America are being left behind by Federal healthcare systems due to shortages of robust broadband services and limited telehealth access, lawmakers and witnesses warned on July 25 during a field hearing of the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization. […]

The director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) said last week that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) must go “back to basics” and re-center its work around creating artificial intelligence standards. […]

The Trump administration is designating the Federal government’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Council (CAIOC) as the “primary venue for interagency coordination and collaboration on AI adoption,” according to the White House’s AI Action Plan published on July 23. […]

Air Force

The Department of the Air Force has established a new communications directorate focused on warfighter communications and cyber systems – marking a strategic shift from the previous structure by separating those responsibilities from intelligence operations. […]

DoD

Over the past several years the Department of Defense (DoD) has aggressively pursued cloud migration to modernize its digital infrastructure, but without careful planning, that cloud sprint can end up creating visibility gaps and fragmented systems — hindering real-time response and stalling the move toward more proactive, unified operations, a Pentagon tech official said on July 24. […]

Data Center Brainstorm

The Department of Energy (DoE) has selected four sites – including two at national laboratories – to build artificial intelligence data centers and energy infrastructure called for earlier this year by the Trump administration.    […]

New court documents filed by the Trump administration on Thursday reveal which specific offices were slated – at least as of earlier this year – for layoffs as part of the administration’s Federal agency reduction-in-force (RIF) and reorganization plans. […]

CISA

Allan Friedman, who has led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) efforts to promote the use of software bills of material (SBOM) globally as a key component of advancing cybersecurity, is leaving the agency on July 31. […]

The White House issued its AI Action Plan this week, which includes a recommendation to establish an “AI global alliance” with key allies to ensure adversaries do not get their hands on technologies that the United States is looking to impose export controls on. […]

White House

While the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan published this week features numerous novel approaches to keep the United States in a leading position in the global AI development and deployment race, one of the most striking of those is its call to develop a commodity-like market for compute resources. […]

DHS

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) intelligence arm charged with coordinating intelligence sharing hasn’t fulfilled all of its oversight and collaboration requirements since it was founded more than a decade ago, a Federal watchdog said.  […]

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The Department of Defense (DoD) has paused efforts by its Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) to re-compete a $15 billion artificial intelligence multiple award contract, casting uncertainty over the future of the DoD’s Advana flagship enterprise data and analytics platform. […]

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As the Department of Defense (DoD) prepares to roll out “JWCC Next” – a follow-on vehicle to the current $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract – acting DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) Katie Arrington said on Thursday that the agency is looking to bring in more “non-traditional companies.” […]

CISA

Sean Plankey, who is President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), pledged at his Senate nomination hearing today to focus on the agency’s primary security missions and to push for more resources from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Congress if those are required. […]

The Trump administration’s AI Action Plan seeks to ramp up artificial intelligence innovation and development while cutting “red tape and onerous regulation” in an effort to give industry a helping hand – but it’s receiving mixed reviews.   […]

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Gen. Michael Guetlein, the newly confirmed program manager for Golden Dome, said on Tuesday he is wasting no time in assembling a detailed plan and team to build the Pentagon’s next-generation missile defense initiative. […]

Congress is cracking down on the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) lagging IT modernization efforts via new legislation introduced by a bipartisan pair of House members who want to push the agency to upgrade its IT systems.   […]

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