Artificial intelligence (AI) governance in government has moved “from concept to practice with remarkable speed,” according to a new practitioner’s playbook, which says public agencies are rapidly adopting rules and structures to harness AI’s benefits while managing a complex and evolving set of risks. […]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is leaning on a year-old digital and customer experience team to sharpen accountability for federal IT spending, and separately, it is exploring artificial intelligence (AI) use cases aimed at improving service delivery and workforce efficiency. […]

The Senate confirmed Arvind Raman as the next director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and under secretary of commerce for standards and technology on Tuesday.  […]

The U.S. Air Force has entered into a $72 million enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Salesforce to move its fragmented point solutions onto a single interoperable platform.   […]

The Pentagon will not use Anthropic as a Department of Defense (DOD) vendor despite ongoing government interest in the company’s powerful Claude Mythos artificial intelligence (AI) tool, DOD Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Emil Michael said Tuesday at the Politico Security Summit. […]

Former U.S. Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) Leonel Garciga is joining Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior executive advisor, the company announced Friday.  […]

The Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) said on Monday it will invest approximately $25 million in a new national competition aimed at upskilling American workers in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.  […]

As President Donald Trump and a group of top technology executives prepare to travel to China this week to meet with President Xi Jinping, lawmakers and policy experts are urging the administration to sharpen its position on artificial intelligence (AI) policy and safety.  […]

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino, R-N. Y., is seeking a briefing from Instructure Holdings, Inc., after two cyberattacks this month against the company’s Canvas platform disrupted schools and universities nationwide – and just as Instructure reported reaching a deal with hackers to protect stolen data. […]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is pressing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin for details on how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will coordinate cybersecurity preparedness for state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments as advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities accelerate threats.  […]

The Department of Defense (DOD) selected Joseph Tonon to serve as the next director of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), the agency announced. As director, Tonon will take on the agency’s longstanding challenge to modernize the federal government’s background investigations system. […]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has sentenced two men to 18 months in prison each after they helped North Korean IT workers obtain U.S.-based jobs by hosting company laptops and enabling remote overseas access.  […]

A bill introduced in the House of Representatives on April 21 would push the federal government to hasten its pace in evaluating and replacing legacy IT systems in favor of more modern systems. […]

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has launched a new website – Spectrum.gov – aimed at centralizing federal spectrum policy resources and advancing the U.S. push to lead global development of sixth-generation (6G) wireless technologies. […]

A senior technology advisor at the Department of Transportation is urging federal agencies to prioritize “lift-and-shift” strategies and tighter collaboration between developers and program staff to modernize legacy IT systems without disrupting mission operations. […]

The latest version of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) internal artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Elsa, is now available to all agency staff for a multitude of functions, the FDA announced Wednesday. […]

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao appointed retired U.S. Navy Capt. William Toti to perform the duties of the undersecretary of the Navy, according to a statement Cao published Friday on X. […]

The Department of Defense (DOD) today released the first tranche of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) files, opening decades of previously classified records to public scrutiny for the first time. […]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needs to address mounting cybersecurity and data management risks, including problems with a key online reporting portal and more than 41,500 terabytes of environmental data, the agency’s watchdog warned Wednesday. […]

The U.S. Space Force added $4.4 billion to its effort to develop space monitoring satellites and services, sending a 10-year contract vehicle from a ceiling value of $1.84 billion to $6.24 billion, according to a notice from the service. […]

The America 250 Powering Progress Award winners are being honored at Tech Tonic on Thursday, May 21, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Morton’s The Steakhouse in Washington, D.C., and you are invited to join the celebration.  […]

D-Wave executives are pushing back on the notion that quantum computing is still years away. They say the technology is already solving real-world public sector and commercial problems, and that agencies can start using it today. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a coalition of international partners on May 1 released new guidance urging organizations to take a “careful” approach to adopting agentic artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and outlining cybersecurity risks and safeguards for deployment.   […]

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor said artificial intelligence (AI) could help the agency modernize its retirement services operation, a manual, paper-based process that still relies on mailed documents. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA)’s proposed procurement automation ecosystem will help drive better acquisition outcomes, acting Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner Laura Stanton said on Wednesday. […]

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) tapped Thomas Flagg, chief information officer (CIO) at the Education Department, to serve as the deputy federal CIO. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DOD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is expanding the use of a new task automation platform dubbed CDAO Wingman. The platform is designed to help personnel build digital assistants to offload document-heavy and compliance driven workloads. […]

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., a top Democrat on a Senate intelligence panel, is sounding the alarm that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is no longer providing the same election security support to state and local governments ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.  […]

A federal appeals court struck down Biden-era digital equity rules for broadband on Wednesday after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr argued the rules were unconstitutional.   […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) is working with federal agencies to determine how to charge them for its USAi platform beginning in fiscal year 2027, as officials seek to understand the platform’s value and long-term support requirements. […]