The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new funding opportunity this week that aims to invest up to $100 million to support a network of “programmable cloud laboratories,” enabled by AI. […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is ramping up its internal generative AI tools and is preparing to roll out an AI training portal “very soon” to help the workforce become more comfortable using GenAI. […]
A group of Republican senators is asking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to investigate data security vulnerabilities posed by Chinese open-source AI models – such as DeepSeek – that might be feeding information back to the Chinese government. […]
The clock is ticking for contractors to comply with the Department of Defense’s (DoD) long-anticipated cybersecurity compliance policy. By Oct. 1, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) clause could start appearing in all applicable DoD contracts. […]
After four years of work, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the long-awaited update to its digital identity guidelines. […]
Jamie Holcombe, the chief information officer (CIO) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), is retiring from Federal service. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) said today it has reached terms of an agreement with OpenAI to provide Federal agencies with the company’s ChatGPT generative AI service at a deep pricing discount. […]
A new private-sector commission aims to accelerate U.S. military readiness in cyberspace by examining the development of an independent cyber force for the military. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with Annamary Holbrook, director of federal solutions consulting at Workday, a provider of human capital and financial management system software, to discuss how agencies can rethink PAR processing with modern tools, configurable workflows, and real-time analytics to improve mission delivery, employee engagement, and operational resilience. […]
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is taking another stab at directing the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to collaborate with Federal and industry partners to develop guidelines for how third-party evaluators verify the testing and development of artificial intelligence systems. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is asking Congress to address a patchwork of varying cybersecurity regulations and requirements across critical infrastructure sectors, saying that while cybersecurity has evolved, standardizing related regulations has not. […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded Owl Cyber Defense a $150 million contract for a major tech upgrade in secure communications, the department announced. […]
An appeals court issued a formal stay last week allowing President Donald Trump’s March 27 executive order – which aims to end collective bargaining with Federal government unions for much of the civilian workforce – to go into effect. […]
The U.S. Space Force has appointed Charleen Laughlin as its new deputy chief of space operations for cyber and data, a senior Space Force official confirmed during an August 4 Mitchell Institute Schriever Spacepower Series event. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today that it has added three prominent generative AI services to the agency’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), and is open to adding additional services. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a $54 million contract to MetTel to modernize the VA’s telecom infrastructure, which includes 15,000 telephone landlines across 1,875 locations. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced today that it plans to reduce the number of personnel working at its scientific archive center to refocus on the “core mission and save taxpayer dollars.” […]
The Senate confirmed Sean Cairncross to serve as national cyber director on Saturday in a 59-35 vote, making him the third confirmed leader of the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD). […]
The U.S. Army is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to help manage airspace operations, as the environment grows increasingly complex with the rapid proliferation of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) – more commonly known as drones. […]
A new consortium devoted to secure software development and led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its draft guide for public comment that responds to instructions in a cybersecurity order from the White House earlier this summer. […]
A group of Democratic senators has introduced a new bill that aims to protect Americans’ privacy by requiring an audit of Federal agency computer systems and networks accessed by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on August 1 that it is offering $103.8 million of grant funding to state, local, and tribal governments to “strengthen community cybersecurity.” […]
A bipartisan pair of senators has introduced legislation that would establish a national plan to defend Federal systems against emerging quantum computing threats. […]
The General Services Administration’s FedRAMP program is midway through a generational makeover to accelerate the pace of its work in evaluating the security of cloud services used by the government, and Brian Conrad – who ran the program from 2021 to 2024 leading into the current wave of change – is liking what he sees thus far. […]
The U.S. Army has struck a new deal with Palantir to consolidate software procurement and establish a comprehensive framework for the Army’s future software and data needs, the service announced on Thursday. […]
U.S. and British soldiers teamed up this week to test systems designed to counter battlefield drone threats, putting into action Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s directive to accelerate drone integration and training across the military. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is looking to dive deep into the full artificial intelligence tech stack in its forthcoming “Community Profile” that aims to give organizations a framework for securing artificial intelligence systems and using them for defense. […]
President Donald Trump has nominated long-time Wall Street executive Edward Forst to lead the General Services Administration (GSA) as its next administrator. […]
A coming report from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) reveals that 71 percent of Federal agencies are managing all of their records in an electronic format – meeting a deadline set by NARA and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). […]
The State Department and the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs & Border Protection component are two of the latest Federal agencies to deploy artificial intelligence-driven chat bots and virtual reality systems to guide their hiring processes and support workforce training – with more use cases on the horizon – agency officials said on July 29. […]