Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is asking Chief Justice John Roberts to conduct a comprehensive review of the federal court system’s cybersecurity protections after court systems recently suffered their second major hack in five years.  […]

A bipartisan duo of House lawmakers has introduced a bill that would eliminate some educational requirements for cybersecurity-related positions within the federal government.  […]

Senate Democrats are asking President Donald Trump to rethink his reported decision to allow top semiconductor chip producers in the United States to sell their products to China in exchange for fees to the government. […]

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers on Aug. 8 introduced the Quantum Encryption Readiness and Resilience Act, which aims to speed the pace of preparedness by the United States for the onset of quantum computing technologies that can break through most modern cryptography methods. […]

New legislation introduced by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., last Thursday seeks to block foreign adversaries from using internet-connected appliances to infiltrate and disrupt the United States’ electric grid.  […]

Top Democrats are launching a probe into Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees embedded across Federal agencies and their alleged conversion to permanent positions.  […]

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.  […]

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.  […]

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). […]

A bipartisan pair of senators has introduced legislation that would establish a national plan to defend Federal systems against emerging quantum computing threats.  […]

As adversaries are increasingly leveraging AI and deepfakes in their cyberattacks, the chief information security officer (CISO) for the U.S. House of Representatives on July 29 stressed the importance of adapting security awareness training to keep up with the emerging technologies. […]

In Congress’s latest attempt to regulate artificial intelligence, House and Senate lawmakers are reintroducing legislation to promote public-private collaboration on testing financial sector AI systems.  […]

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee voted 22-6 today to advance the nomination of Paul Roberti to be Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). […]

The White House’s newly issued AI Action Plan looks to cement U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence, but White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Michael Kratsios said on Wednesday that the “ultimate solution” to win the AI race requires Congress. […]

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. […]

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.   […]

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said on Tuesday that he is drafting legislation to address TikTok’s national security and privacy issues and trying to find “the sweet spot” to keep the social media app online in the United States. […]

Republicans have selected Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., who is a veteran cybersecurity policy leader on Capitol Hill, to be the new chair of the House Homeland Security Committee. […]

Members of the House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee (FSGG) are funding several artificial intelligence and cyber efforts in their draft appropriations bill released Sunday night for the upcoming fiscal year.  […]

House lawmakers last week approved two pieces of legislation that would add significant new network security and policy taskings to the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) component.   […]

James Walkinshaw, who currently serves on the Fairfax County, Va., Board of Supervisors and is campaigning for election to Congress, joined MeriTalk’s Tech Tonic event on Thursday evening where he pledged to continue the Federal IT work of his former boss, Rep. Gerry Connolly. […]

A panel of House lawmakers has decided to toss aside cuts to the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) proposed by the Trump administration, instead raising its budget for the coming fiscal year (FY) by nearly $123 million.  […]

As Congress takes stabs at regulating artificial intelligence, increases in AI-powered crimes has prompted a big question – what happens when AI commits crimes without a human directing it to, and what might classify as “human” in the future?  […]

With drone warfare evolving at a rapid pace, industry experts told members of Congress on Tuesday that legislation is needed to expand drone detection authority broadly – and prevent a potential 9/11-style drone attack. […]

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., reintroduced a bill on Thursday that would direct the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to use blockchain technology to improve how veterans receive their benefits and services. […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted on July 10 to approve $812 million of spending for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in fiscal year 2026 – pushing back against action by House lawmakers last month to cut GAO’s FY 2026 budget by 48 percent on a year-over-year basis.   […]

President Donald Trump signed a massive reconciliation package into law on Friday that features several cyber and AI-related provisions, including those aimed at bolstering the Pentagon’s tech capabilities, building up rural healthcare systems, and adding more tools for monitoring the country’s borders. […]

Now that the Senate has pushed its version of reconciliation funding over the finish line amid a blizzard of changes to the bill, here’s a look at a few workforce and tech items that either failed to make the final version of the legislation, or were beaten back on the funding front during the process.   […]

The U.S. Senate voted early Tuesday morning to drop from its reconciliation legislation a controversial 10-year moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence tech after the proposed ban met significant bipartisan pushback.   […]

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House aims to push Federal agencies to adopt electronic tools that simplify how Americans access help from the government.  […]