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The Trump administration is facing mounting pressure from lawmakers and former National Science Foundation (NSF) leaders to restore the National Science Board (NSB), with critics warning that weakening the agency’s leadership could undermine U.S. competitiveness in emerging technologies. […]

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 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. […]

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. […]

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 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. […]

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), a unit of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), announced on Tuesday new security testing agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced on Monday the launch of a new artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled tool, USA Class, which is designed to automate the creation of federal job descriptions. […]