The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is adopting a “cyber dominance” strategy to better protect veterans’ data, according to Eddie Pool, the acting assistant secretary for information and technology and chief information officer (CIO) at the VA. […]
The Pentagon on Tuesday rolled out GenAI.mil, a new platform designed to bring frontier artificial intelligence tools to the military workforce. […]
Acting Defense Department (DOD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Katie Arrington used her final public address in the role to announce that the Pentagon is moving to deploy Mission Network as a Service, an effort she said would unify the department’s secret-level systems in under a year. […]
Lawmakers and industry experts are warning that President Donald Trump’s decision on Monday to allow the sale of Nvidia-manufactured chips used in advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to China puts national security at risk. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has unveiled a new Industry Engagement Platform (IEP) that the agency said is aimed at improving communications between CISA and developers of security technologies. […]
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published the Trump administration’s President’s Management Agenda (PMA) on Monday, laying out plans to shrink the federal government and leverage technology to deliver faster services. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has received approval for “surgical rehiring” to fill critical vacancies left after Pentagon-wide workforce reduction efforts, Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton, Cyber Defense Command commander and DISA director, said today during a media roundtable. […]
As the Pentagon pushes sweeping acquisition reforms aimed at speeding how the department buys and fields “functionally relevant capabilities,” senior officials at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) said the agency is largely on track to meet the new requirements. […]
After months of negotiations, the compromise version of the annual defense policy bill is in – but it left out a proposed artificial intelligence (AI) moratorium and reauthorization of the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF), instead including major cybersecurity and AI amendments. […]
House and Senate negotiators reached a compromise on Sunday evening for the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a sweeping defense bill that makes a major push to reform defense acquisition while adding a slate of cybersecurity provisions, measures to advance military innovation, and a new joint drone program. […]
As global cybersecurity hiring begins to stabilize after years of layoffs and frozen budgets, skills gaps loom large as one of the greatest challenges facing the cybersecurity workforce, the new annual ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study found. […]
China-linked backdoor malware gave cyber actors access for at least 17 months into numerous organizations’ networks, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) warned in a joint-advisory. […]
President Donald Trump’s national security priorities for his second term zero in on technological dominance and economic strength while growing the U.S. presence in the Western Hemisphere. […]
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) named 1,014 companies eligible to compete for work under the first phase of its Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contracting vehicle this week. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – along with Australian and other international government partners – released on Dec. 3 a new guide for the secure integration of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into operational technologies (OT). […]
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is building an artificial intelligence (AI)-ready force the way a teaching hospital trains clinicians: rigorous classroom learning, side-by-side practice on world-class technology, and real problems. […]
Across mission networks and insider risk programs, practitioners are shifting from reactive firefighting to proactive, risk-aware operations, elevating signal over noise so leaders can act faster and with more confidence. […]
Two Virginia lawmakers are pushing to revive the government’s most influential IT oversight tools, warning that meaningful federal tech modernization won’t happen without a modernized FITARA Scorecard and a fully funded FedRAMP program. […]
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded technology company Peraton a $12.5 billion contract to modernize and replace legacy air traffic control (ATC) systems, the department announced on Thursday. […]
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Wednesday announced the creation of a task force overseeing the military’s first one-way attack drone squadron based in the Middle East. […]
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) began Phase II of its OASIS+ contract program, expanding the governmentwide vehicle to 13 service domains and keeping solicitations continuously open. […]
Codifying federal worker protections after the Trump administration’s major cuts to agency workforces will be key in rebuilding trust with federal employees, two House Democrats said Thursday night during MeriTalk’s Fix Fed Tech event. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is shutting down its program that pays incentives to retain highly skilled cybersecurity professionals after a watchdog report found that millions were paid to ineligible employees. […]
As federal agencies modernize IT systems and prepare for artificial intelligence (AI) compute demands, Supermicro is working with NVIDIA to expand efforts to help the government rapidly deploy purpose-built “AI factory” infrastructure. […]
At Splunk .conf25, leaders highlighted a significant shift toward artificial intelligence (AI) agent-assisted operations, emphasizing how machine data and observability are becoming critical control planes for faster, safer decision-making across public sector SecOps, ITOps, and broader mission objectives. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) unveiled its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy on Thursday, which will integrate a five-pillar approach to the technology across all HHS components. […]
A pair of bipartisan senators are calling for immediate federal action after the first documented case of a successful cyberattack using artificial intelligence (AI) targeted 30 entities with minimal human intervention. […]
A group of Democrats are reviving legislation that would restrict the use of biased and discriminatory artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in making critical decisions in Americans’ lives. […]
Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), returned to the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday for a second confirmation hearing, this time making clear that the Moon – not Mars – is NASA’s immediate priority. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced on Thursday a OneGov agreement with Palo Alto Networks offering discounts of up to 60% for technology solutions designed to protect federal agencies’ cyber infrastructure. […]