In this episode of MeriTalking, Nicole Burdette sits down with LaRel Rogers, staff product marketing manager for federal at Okta, to discuss the rise of agentic AI and its impact across government. Together, they explore how autonomous AI agents are transforming mission delivery, along with strategies for protecting critical access points and data flows between […]
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The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is soliciting information from industry, academia, and other organizations interested in demonstrating agentic artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in a technical experimentation event from April 13-17, 2026, at Avon Park Air Force Range in Florida. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is telling agencies they have until spring to ensure that their artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are “truthful” and don’t favor certain “ideological dogmas.” […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced on Monday the US Tech Force, a new effort to hire early-career technologists who will serve two-year employment terms across the federal government. […]
One semiconductor project is complete, and others are making progress – that’s the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Thursday assessment of efforts under the CHIPS Act to strengthen the domestic semiconductor supply chain. […]
The Pentagon has reissued calls for all components to onboard their Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (ICOFR)-relevant systems to an approved identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) solution by the end of fiscal year (FY) 2026, in an effort to support a clean departmentwide audit by FY 2028. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) said Friday that it is launching an initiative aimed at accelerating research, development, and innovation (RDI) to boost the commercialization of emerging technologies. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has named three cloud services that will be participating in the first cohort of the Phase Two pilot recently launched as part of the FedRAMP 20x initiative. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) plans to refresh all of its major governmentwide acquisition contracts (GWACs) and multiple award vehicles by the end of January, Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Deputy Commissioner Laura Stanton said on Thursday evening. […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to undermine state laws on artificial intelligence (AI), calling instead for a “minimally burdensome” single framework to regulate the AI industry. […]
The conferenced version of the fiscal year (FY) 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) gives the Pentagon’s UFO sleuths three specific mandates, including expanded briefings to Congress. […]
Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House and Senate would direct the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to create a centralized artificial intelligence (AI) and technology talent hiring team to streamline federal tech-related hiring. […]
The U.S. Coast Guard has fallen short of its goals for timely evaluations of injured and ill service members and lacks key tools to track the performance of its disability evaluation system, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]
Automation is accelerating how the Defense Department’s (DOD) – rebranded as the War Department by the Trump administration – builds, secures, and operates cloud environments, senior Leidos officials said during a recent webinar, underscoring how automation is reducing approval bottlenecks, strengthening security operations, and preparing defense networks for machine-speed threats. […]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) updated its system used to track commercial truckers’ safety compliance records for the first time in 25 years, the agency’s acting chief technology officer (CTO) said Thursday morning. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has tapped Deputy Secretary Paul Lawrence to serve as acting chief information officer (CIO) and assistant secretary for information and technology. […]
The Pentagon is directing all components to quickly transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), citing advances in quantum information science and the need to protect military systems and communications. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a joint memo to agency heads on Wednesday, sharing additional details on the planned single, modern Core Human Capital Management (Core HCM) platform. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) logged more than $3.9 billion in total orders as of the last fiscal year, with military services continuing to expand their use of the contract, agency officials said Monday. […]
Tenable Public Sector has joined the OneGov ranks to offer a discounted rate on its cloud security enterprise solution, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced Thursday morning. […]
The Department of Transportation (DOT) is launching a department-wide modernization initiative driven by Salesforce artificial intelligence (AI) agents that will automate operational tasks across the department’s components. […]
The Trump administration’s artificial intelligence (AI) initiative, Genesis Mission, is falling under House Democrats’ skepticism for its potential to increase energy costs and risks to data privacy. […]
With just days until its authority expires, the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF)awarded the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) more than $28 million to modernize the technology infrastructure supporting the agency’s nuclear security missions. […]
House Democrats have launched a new commission to develop policy expertise on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and the innovation economy. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is adopting a “cyber dominance” strategy to better protect veterans’ data, according to Eddie Pool, the acting principal deputy assistant secretary for information and technology at the VA. […]
The Pentagon on Tuesday rolled out GenAI.mil, a new platform designed to bring frontier artificial intelligence tools to the military workforce. […]
Acting Defense Department (DOD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Katie Arrington used her final public address in the role to announce that the Pentagon is moving to deploy Mission Network as a Service, an effort she said would unify the department’s secret-level systems in under a year. […]
Lawmakers and industry experts are warning that President Donald Trump’s decision on Monday to allow the sale of Nvidia-manufactured chips used in advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to China puts national security at risk. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has unveiled a new Industry Engagement Platform (IEP) that the agency said is aimed at improving communications between CISA and developers of security technologies. […]
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published the Trump administration’s President’s Management Agenda (PMA) on Monday, laying out plans to shrink the federal government and leverage technology to deliver faster services. […]