Boston Government Services, a top contractor to the Department of Energy (DoE) for technology and security services, has named former DoE Chief Information Officer Rocky Campione vice president of cybersecurity and technology solutions. […]

The Federal government has come a long way in improving civilian agency and critical infrastructure cybersecurity over the past ten years. Central to that improvement effort is the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which has the weighty mission of managing and reducing risk to U.S. cyber and physical infrastructure. […]

Federal customer experience (CX) officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said this week that CX capabilities are finally starting to “take root” across the agency’s different components, which are keeping customers top of mind when designing government services. […]

As the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is gearing up to pilot its first-ever Direct File tool in the coming tax season – allowing  taxpayers to directly file their taxes with the government by only using the online tool – IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel is holding his breath on the potential success of the tool’s introduction. […]

The Department of Energy (DoE) is preparing an updated version of its Generative Artificial Intelligence Reference Guide to better reflect guidance from the White House’s recent AI executive order (EO), with an emphasis on responsible AI. […]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has tapped Jennifer Wendel to serve as acting chief information officer (CIO), according to the agency’s website. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is set to publish a new report this month looking at how well Federal agencies have done with artificial intelligence use case inventories, according to an agency official. […]

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is taking steps to overhaul and restructure its Office of Systems – which has served as the main arm of SSA’s IT apparatus – to realign the agency’s IT management focus around a new Office of the Chief Information Officer, an agency official confirmed. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CSAC) voted on Dec. 5 to approve two recommendations for the agency to consider on advancing memory safe system languages (MSSL), and on further strengthening operational collaboration. […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is turning to responsible AI to implement human-centered design across the department to serve its many customers, according to DHS Chief Scientist Sam Howerton. […]

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials said this week that they are looking to fix website tech issues that have now impacted the disability claims for more than 120,000 veterans, and that the agency is putting in place a senior executive to direct the fixes. […]

As Federal agencies with finance and market-related missions increasingly adopt more modern financial technologies (FinTech), Rep. Wiley Nickel, D-N.C., grilled a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official today for what he said was lagging other agencies in promoting  modernized technology to help investors. […]

André Mendes, the chief information officer (CIO) at the Department of Commerce (DoC), announced today that he is stepping down from that post at the end of the year. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has announced a new “Talent Pools” tool on the USAJOBS website that provides Federal agencies an easier way to share certificates of job candidates across government. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has named Sterling Thomas as the agency’s new chief scientist, a role in which he will help lead GAO’s science and technology work. […]

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released its data strategy for fiscal years (FY) 2024 through 2026, with the mission “to realize the full potential of USDA’s data and workforce to make better decisions, maximize the impact of citizen-facing programs, and provide the public with easier access to data that can solve national problems and spark innovation.” […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued an updated Agile Assessment Guide that features numerous best practices to assess the adoption and use of Agile processes in Federal agencies. […]

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate this week would strip the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of its authority to use facial recognition technology as part of its airline passenger screening program, and require the agency to get rid of data obtained through the use of facial recognition technology. […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has made progress in its effort to help “rip and replace” untrusted IT equipment from communications service providers’ networks, but FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said on Thursday that the program is in need of more funding as it faces a shortfall of over $3 billion. […]

It’s been nearly six months since introduction in the Senate of legislation to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), but the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee has failed to vote on the bill – even as the FAA’s current authorization expired on Sept. 30. […]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is inviting industry to submit bids on a new potential seven-year, $1.9 billion blanket purchase agreement to provide end-to-end program management support as well as to deliver enterprise-level information technologies solutions. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today that Zach Whitman, GSA’s chief data scientist, will serve as the agency’s chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). […]

With lawmakers and stakeholders working together to develop AI guardrails, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said today that he believes “we are on the right path of a public-private partnership” in AI development. […]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is looking to establish a new “program management office support” that aims to back up zero trust security implementation across the department, according to a newly published contract opportunity. […]

Keith Busby has been tapped as the new deputy chief information security officer (CISO) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to his LinkedIn profile. […]

Dorothy Aronson, the National Science Foundation’s current chief data officer (CDO) and former chief information officer (CIO), will also serve as the agency’s chief AI officer (CAIO), an NSF spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today.   […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said this week that its three commissioners unanimously approved a resolution that will give agency staff sharper tools for digging into non-public investigations of products and services that “use or claim to be produced using artificial intelligence (AI) or claim to detect its use.”  […]

Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester, D-Mont., Ranking Member Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, introduced new legislation this week that would instruct the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to create an emergency communications system. […]

The Department of Education has tapped its Chief Technology Officer Vijay Sharma to serve as the agency’s responsible AI officer and chief AI officer (CAIO), a department spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk on Tuesday.  […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI cautioned today that the LockBit ransomware gang is exploiting the Citrix Bleed security flaw in exploits against critical infrastructure sectors, according to a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) issued with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center and the Australian Cyber Security Center.  […]