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AI Quantum Computing

Lawmakers and tech experts said today that Congress needs to sharply boost the Federal government’s proposed funding of for quantum technology in the fiscal year 2026 budget – to as much as twice recent levels – and argued that kind of increase is crucial for the United States to stay competitive with China in the race for quantum innovation and to set the tone for more private sector investment in the technology.   […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), told lawmakers on Wednesday that HHS is “very aggressively” leveraging AI technologies to drive efficiencies and offset the operational impacts of proposed cuts in the department’s fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget. […]

General Services Administration GSA

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) newly launched generative AI tool is reserved for internal use for now, but GSA Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Zach Whitman said today that the tool has the potential to be applied across government to empower the entire Federal workforce. […]

Nearly a year after unveiling its overarching strategy for artificial intelligence (AI), the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) has released a detailed implementation plan outlining how it intends to integrate AI capabilities across the service to improve decision-making, operational efficiency, and digital readiness. […]

military healthcare, veterans healthcare

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced the Testing and Evaluation Systems for Trusted Artificial Intelligence (TEST) AI Act of 2025 to strengthen the Federal government’s ability to test and evaluate AI systems. […]

President Donald Trump plans to rescind a Biden-era rule that would curb the export of advanced AI chips and drew criticism from industry executives who argued the rule would have derailed AI progress and stifled technology innovation in America. […]

USPTO

Jerry Ma, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) director of emerging technology and first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO), announced that he is stepping down and heading to the private sector. […]

DoD
smart cities

As cities adopt more “smart” technology to manage infrastructure and improve public services, action on a range of policy choices – such as improving collaboration and being more transparent about technology capabilities and citizen data use – can help to alleviate citizens’ concerns about data privacy and the costs of tech deployments, the Government Accountability Office said.   […]

The head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) delivered a less than glowing review of Federal government artificial intelligence (AI) data work during a Senate budget hearing on April 29, where he also said that GAO is undertaking efforts to evaluate the impact of the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Federal agency systems and data. […]

Rep. Laurel Lee, R-Fla., who was a member of the House Task Force on AI in the last Congress, said today she expects to reintroduce the bipartisan Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE Act) with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. […]

Pentagon Military Defense DoD

Pushing back on industry criticism, a top Pentagon tech official made clear today that the Defense Department’s (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) policy exists because defense contractors failed to meet earlier standards – and that CMMC is here to stay whether contractors like it or not. […]

Two officials from the National Science Foundation (NSF) are pointing to early indications from the White House’s science and technology agenda as evidence that development of quantum and artificial intelligence technologies will be hot-button issues for the Trump administration. […]

DoD

When the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) comes knocking on agency doors for data and contracting information, how can agencies best be prepared to respond with a quick turnaround time?  […]

AI

A group of 48 House Democrats sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought on Wednesday to call for an immediate halt to the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) use of unauthorized AI systems. […]

As industry and government officials look to innovate further in artificial intelligence technologies, legal uncertainty around who’s responsible when AI goes wrong may quickly become a challenge in responsible development.  […]

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency is making significant strides toward completing its cloud migration initiative, with nearly 85 percent of its application tier already transitioned to the cloud, a senior agency tech official said.   […]

State Department
CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) extended its contract for the agency’s Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program late Tuesday night after MITRE – the non-profit organization that operates the program – alerted stakeholders to a looming cutoff of Federal funding for the program. […]

A group of House Republicans is calling on the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to review overlapping cybersecurity regulations, arguing that the current fragmented approach is raising costs on industry and possibly undermining national cyber resilience. […]

President Donald Trump’s plan for extensive tariffs on foreign imports could “derail” efforts to build more power generation facilities in the United States and slow near-term investment necessary to power AI technologies, according to tech experts and Democratic lawmakers. […]

Tech experts and lawmakers on Tuesday emphasized the importance of codifying the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot as a way for the U.S. to maintain its global leadership in artificial intelligence. […]

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