- + FAA seeks artificial intelligence-powered safety tool—The Federal Aviation Administration is continuing to search for potential applications of artificial intelligence meant to boost aviation safety, incl...
- + From genomics breakthroughs to tracking Amazon fires: Flemming Awards turn spotlight on federal scientists—In a crowd of somewhere between 150 and 200 scientists working together to develop a tool that would enable researchers to identify genes and genetic...
- + Trump’s Schedule F would have hurt govtech recruitment, OPM official says—If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to reinstate an executive order that eases the president’s ability to fire federal worke...
- + DOJ employees wary of doxxing threats call on leadership for stronger response—An organization for Justice Department employees is asking leadership to step up protections for workers facing online threats, such as doxxing, espec...
- + Former GSA, FDIC IT official headed to Railroad Retirement Board—A former top General Services Administration tech official is taking over as chief information officer at the independent federal agency charged with ...
- + Federal data management career path needs improvement, CDO Council vice chair says—HERSHEY, Pa. — A clearer trajectory for data professionals in government could address the issue of the data field being a temporary career stop, sai...
- + Public registry of US space objects expected to be online in weeks—A database of objects launched by the United States into space is expected to be launched soon, according to the National Centers for Environmen...
- + EPA CIO Vaughn Noga details slew of new modernization efforts underway—The Environmental Protection Agency is undertaking an array of new modernization efforts that include projects digitizing historical records, automati...
- + OpenAI further expands its generative AI work with the federal government—The federal government is continuing to invest in generative AI technology produced by OpenAI, with a handful of agencies recently inking deals to use...
- + The federal government wants to teach workers about AI prompt engineering—The Federal Acquisition Institute, a career development resource housed within the General Services Administration, recently released a credential foc...
- + Federal data, security leaders release zero-trust guide ahead of White House deadline—A week before a deadline for federal agencies to submit to the White House their updated zero-trust implementation plans , a coalition of government ...
- + USAID updated policy to allow use of Signal, Telegram in some circumstances—The U.S. Agency for International Development quietly updated its policy last year to allow its employees to use third-party messaging platforms — inc...
- + Commerce looking to publish AI-ready data guidance in coming months—Guidance from the Department of Commerce aimed at establishing a first-of-its-kind framework for using the agency’s public federal data with artificia...
- + Federal CIO: The TMF has been vital to government’s improved cybersecurity stature—The federal government has made notable strides in modernizing its cyber defenses since President Joe Biden signed executive order 14028 in May 2021 ...
- + Agencies face ‘inflection point’ ahead of looming zero-trust deadline, CISA official says—The post Agencies face ‘inflection point’ ahead of looming zero-trust deadline, CISA official says appeared first on FedScoop . [Category: Cyber]
- + DHS touts AI work and pilots a year after executive order—The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced the successful tests of three generative artificial intelligence pilots , providing a prog...
- + How federal IT officials are navigating the post-AI executive order ‘hype cycle’—HERSHEY, Pa. — A year ago, all anyone could talk about at ACT-IAC’s Imagine Nation ELC conference was President Joe Biden’s artificial intelligenc...
- + FTC on track to publish its first AI use case inventory by the end of this year, official says—The Federal Trade Commission expects to make its first artificial intelligence use case inventory public before 2025, according to Mark Gray, the agen...
- + GSA chief advocates for simplified cloud buying, ‘best value’ contracting as Congress considers legislation—HERSHEY, Pa. — Robin Carnahan, the leader of the General Services Administration, is hopeful that Congress before the end of its term will pass legis...
- + The US is leading its counterparts in digital transformation at scale, GSA’s Shive says—HERSHEY, Pa. — In recent weeks, General Services Administration CIO David Shive has met with the heads of digital services entities of more than a do...
- + USAID helping Philippine space agency investigate satellite internet—With the support of USAID, the Philippine Space Agency three years ago launched its Introducing Non-Geostationary Satellite Constellations Test Deplo...
- + Ramping up digital fraud prevention with advanced verification tools—In an era of increasing digital fraud, federal and state government agencies are ramping up efforts to strengthen identity verification and fraud prev...
- + AI’s future depends on who’s at the table — not just who’s in the Oval Office—Some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent voices and influential players are working overtime to influence the election. To hear them tell it, the...
- + Energy Department is looking at using AI to help with its nuclear accelerators—The nuclear physics program in the Energy Department’s Science Office wants to use artificial intelligence to help control its advanced accelerators, ...
- + AI national security memo aims to avoid U.S. ‘squandering’ its lead—The Biden administration published its anticipated national security memo on artificial intelligence Thursday, establishing a roadmap that aims to ens...
- + Biden to release AI national security memo—President Joe Biden will issue a memo and framework on the use of AI in the context of national security Thursday, with the aim of providing steps for...
- + ARPA-H wants information on autonomous AI systems for health care—The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is seeking information about how autonomous artificial intelligence systems, known as agentic AI, mig...
- + National Archives getting a big boost from AI to transform its search capabilities—In the pre-GPT era of artificial intelligence, there wasn’t a ton for the National Archives and Records Administration — and its billions of unstructu...
- + OSTP director renews calls for more NAIRR, AI R&D funding—Addressing artificial intelligence problems within research and development will cost the United States tens of billions of dollars and a stronger com...
- + SSA operations, HUD digital infrastructure get TMF boost—The Technology Modernization Fund on Tuesday announced four new investments, totaling $50.2 million, aimed at meeting user needs for housing and enhan...
- + White House nearing finish line on federal data guidance —The Office of Management and Budget is getting close to finalizing long-awaited data guidance required by a 2019 law that mandates the machine-readabi...
- + Bill to modernize federal cloud procurement gets backing of leading trade group—A top technology trade group is nudging the leadership of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Oversight and Accountabi...
- + Nuclear Regulatory Commission has eliminated all legacy systems, CIO says—The Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not use any legacy IT, having either decommissioned or modernized all of its systems, according to the independ...
- + Labor Department’s AI roadmap geared toward ‘worker empowerment’—The Department of Labor is spelling out how artificial intelligence can boost job quality without harming the rights of workers, releasing a roadmap t...
- + Login.gov facing technical difficulties and cost uncertainty, watchdog says—The General Services Administration’s Login.gov, a single sign-on platform that recently made remote identity proofing generally available , needs to...
- + NIST Director Laurie Locascio to depart in January—National Institute of Standards and Technology Director Laurie Locascio will leave the administration in January after more than two-and-a-half years ...
- + DHS wants to incorporate more cloud technology into its biometric database—The Department of Homeland Security wants to transition its massive biometric identity management system to more cloud-focused technology. Now, it’s s...
- + Scale AI pushes Congress to take action on AI data, safety issues this year—One of the country’s leading generative AI startups is urging congressional leadership to take action on a trio of safety, data and definitional prior...
- + NOAA’s environmental information hub working to ‘recoup data’ after Helene outage—The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration component responsible for publicly sharing environmental and weather data and information said it ...
- + The FBI is using AI to mine threat tips, but isn’t sharing much detail—The Federal Bureau of Investigation is using artificial intelligence to mine tips about potential threats but is revealing little about how the system...
- + For Customs and Border Protection, AI has been a ‘game-changer’—The way that longtime Customs and Border Protection tech leader Mark James describes the agency’s artificial intelligence work is almost too perfect...
- + VA staffers are piloting two chatbots for internal use—The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of the Chief Technology Officer is piloting two internal generative artificial intelligence chat interfaces...
- + Cyber officials cite legacy systems as post-quantum readiness challenge—Legacy systems, operational technology systems, and lack of guidance are among the barriers to agency implementation of post-quantum cryptography stan...
- + Alondra Nelson among Biden’s selections for National Science Board —President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his plans to appoint eight people to the National Science Board, including his former Office of Science and T...
- + ASTM International wins $15 million from NIST to stand up standardization center—The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded $15 million to global technical standards organization ASTM International to establish a ce...
- + FedRAMP’s new director has big plans for the cloud compliance program—After deciding on a rocky mountain pass near Mt. Hood in Oregon earlier this year that he would join the General Services Administration as the agency...
- + Why agencies need to focus on modernizing public interaction over infrastructure—Federal agencies have made great strides in modernizing their digital infrastructure, tapping the power of the cloud and switching to software-as-a-se...
- + SSA database to flag synthetic identity fraud has cost issues, GAO finds—The Social Security Administration is off track on recouping the costs it took to create and maintain a database aimed at helping banks catch a form o...
- + Government websites aren’t created equal. GSA’s 10x program aims to change that—Over the course of his 14-plus years at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Nick Langle has learned a thing or two about the chasm that exists...
- + House Republicans probe NIST on facial recognition for federal digital identity verification—Three House Republicans are asking the National Institute of Standards and Technology to provide information about how it’s alleviating concerns with ...
- + MITRE’s Federal AI Sandbox will focus on critical infrastructure, weather modeling, social services—MITRE, the federally funded operator of research and development centers on behalf of agencies, unveiled plans this week to train three new artificial...
- + White House’s final ‘Trust Regulation’ aims to bolster confidence in federal statistics—A final rule announced by the White House on Thursday will further codify and clarify responsibilities for U.S. agencies when it comes to accurate and...
- + Login.gov announces availability for facial recognition technology—Login.gov, the single sign-on platform provided by the General Services Administration, will begin offering a new identity verification option to its ...
- + CISA official: AI tools ‘need to have a human in the loop’—An abbreviated rundown of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s artificial intelligence work goes something like this: a dozen use c...
- + Data, talent, funding among top barriers for federal agency AI implementation —Federal officials are citing several common barriers to carrying out the Biden administration’s directives on artificial intelligence, including prepa...
- + Senate bill to create NSF-awarded AI challenges gets House companion—A Senate bill that would task the National Science Foundation with overseeing a multimillion-dollar competition on artificial intelligence innovations...
- + White House science and tech report highlights R&D budget challenges—Budget constraints on research and development are limiting science and technology efforts across the federal landscape, according to a quadrennial Wh...
- + HHS developing new AI strategic plan—The Department of Health and Human Services is working on a new strategic plan for the use of artificial intelligence across the entire breadth of its...
- + Deputy Energy secretary sees role in counteracting AI industry’s ‘profit motive’—The Energy Department could be a key force in counteracting the “profit motive” driving America’s leading artificial intelligence companies, the agenc...
- + VA seeks information on AI governance framework—The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking expertise from the public regarding the implementation of a framework for artificial intelligence govern...
- + VA seeks information on AI governance and framework—The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking expertise from the public regarding the implementation of a framework for artificial intelligence govern...
- + NIST narrows in on risks related to chem-bio AI models—The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute is seeking information on the development of chemical an...
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