The U.S. Army is inviting industry leaders, investors, and innovators to help build the future force by co-investing in its installations, technology, energy infrastructure, and industrial base. […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Feb. 26 its “One Farmer, One File,” sweeping modernization initiative to create a centralized record system for farmers. […]
A congressional report released on Feb. 27 by Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., estimates that four major data broker breaches over the past decade have cost U.S. consumers more than $20 billion in identity theft losses. […]
An appeals court ruling on Thursday overturned a lower court ruling that allowed 21 federal agencies to maintain their collective bargaining rights after an executive order signed by President Donald Trump sought to strip those rights from the federal workforce last year. […]
President Donald Trump on Friday ordered all federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology,” ending an ongoing dispute between the Pentagon and the artificial intelligence (AI) company. […]
As the Department of Defense (DOD) – which the Trump administration has rebranded to the Department of War – pushes to meet its fiscal year 2027 zero trust deadline, two major shifts over the past year have reshaped how the DOD is getting there. […]
On March 3, join leaders from across government, educational institutions, and industry for the 2026 Zscaler Public Sector Summit at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. to explore how Zero Trust Everywhere and AI-driven security approaches protect critical systems, safeguard sensitive data, and empower agencies to maintain trust in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. […]
Attackers don’t need a quantum computer to start winning with quantum. They just need time. That premise – that adversaries can siphon encrypted data today and hold it until tomorrow’s decryption becomes possible – framed the conversation in “Cybersecurity in Focus: Acting Today Against Tomorrow’s Threat,” a Red Hat Government Symposium session. […]
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., plans to vote against Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd and put a hold on his nomination to lead the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM), Wyden’s office confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
More than 1 million unique users across the Pentagon are integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their daily workflows, and the department plans to launch several new AI models “very, very soon,” a senior defense official said on Thursday. […]
As the Pentagon advances its zero trust architecture, senior military and industry officials said on Thursday that securely moving data to and from the tactical edge is emerging as a central operational challenge. […]
The U.S. Marine Corps plans to expand its Digital Transformation Teams (DTXs) as part of a four-phase effort to scale artificial intelligence (AI) across the service, according to a senior official. […]
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is leading a bipartisan congressional effort to reauthorize a legal provision with additional safeguards to prevent the government’s surveillance of Americans’ digital data without a warrant. […]
Madhu Gottumukkala is departing as the interim leader of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), with current agency executive director for cybersecurity Nick Andersen stepping in as the agency’s acting director. […]
A new era of government operations is taking shape – one powered by artificial intelligence (AI). What was once experimental is now transformational, as agencies harness AI to reimagine workflows, accelerate decision-making, and meet rising mission demands. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) awarded a $95 million IT services and solutions contract to Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC). […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) wants to overhaul the way some federal employees are evaluated and make it easier to identify poor performers by setting quotas for ratings and limiting challenges to performance scores. […]
The U.S. Navy’s Chief Technology Officer, Justin Fanelli, announced today that the service has identified seven enterprise services under its Innovation Adoption Kit (IAK), with additional services currently being evaluated. He did not disclose specifics about the seven selected services. […]
The Department of Defense’s (DOD) drone task force announced Monday that its counter-unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) marketplace has reached initial operational capability. […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) elevated Shantrell “Nikki” Collier, who previously served as the agency’s deputy chief information officer (CIO), to the permanent CIO role. […]
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday sanctioned Russian national Sergey Sergeyevich Zelenyuk and his company, Matrix LLC – known as Operation Zero – along with five associated individuals and entities, for allegedly trading in cyber tools that the department said threaten U.S. national security. […]
The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is partnering with the Department of the Army to rapidly adopt AI-enabled coding tools across the workforce of the Defense Department (DOD) – rebranded as the War Department by the Trump administration. […]
President Donald Trump said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that technology companies will be required to supply their own electricity for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, framing the move as a way to protect consumers from rising utility costs. […]
A bill that was hailed by the Senate for its aviation safety provisions and unanimously passed, was shot down by the House in a narrow vote Tuesday after the Pentagon withdrew its support. […]
Marine Lt. Gen. James Adams officially took the helm of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) on Friday during an assumption of directorship ceremony. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is entering the scale phase of its artificial intelligence (AI) implementation and has hundreds of AI projects underway, Israel Soong, deputy director of the CIA’s Office of AI, said Tuesday. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive on Wednesday calling on federal civilian agencies to take immediate steps to secure Cisco Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WAN) systems. […]
“We are drowning in data, but we are starved for knowledge,” Zhong Wang, a computational biologist and staff scientist at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), said recently, paraphrasing Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner. […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) cyber threats have reached a critical turning point, with an 89% year-over-year increase in attacks by AI-enabled adversaries, according to a report issued Tuesday from cybersecurity services provider CrowdStrike. […]
CGI Federal said on Feb. 24 that it won a contract with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to expand on existing work with the agency aimed at modernizing its Compass financial management platform. […]