Five Federal employee unions filed a lawsuit on Feb. 13 challenging President Donald Trump’s Feb. 11 executive order (EO) calling for “large scale” reductions-in-force (RIF) and the administration’s “deferred resignation” program. […]
Matthew Graviss, the State Department’s first chief data and artificial intelligence officer, has departed the agency. […]
A bicameral pair of Republican legislators has introduced legislation that they say will restore presidential authority to reorganize the Federal government and eliminate agencies. […]
A coalition of over a dozen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in Federal court on Feb. 13 against President Trump, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and its leader Elon Musk, accusing them of “unlawful exercise of power” in taking recent actions to invade Federal agencies, access their tech systems, and curtail their operations. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommended this week that the U.S. Coast Guard update its oversight standards and cybersecurity protections for vessels and facilities within maritime transportation system (MTS) which include waterways, ports, and land connections. […]
The U.S. Army has made significant strides in digital transformation over the past few years, and officials from the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) and the U.S. Army Cyber Command shared on Feb.12 how ServiceNow has been a “force multiplier” in those efforts. […]
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has embarked on a modernization overhaul of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to transition into the next generation of business processes, the agency’s chief information officer explained this week. […]
The Trump administration is seeking feedback on its artificial intelligence action plan while Congress plans its next move in AI regulation – which may include propping up a new AI task force and codifying the AI Safety Institute. […]
Republicans in both the House and Senate are pushing for at least a $100 billion increase in defense spending over the next decade to support President Trump’s agenda including the creation of an “Iron Dome for America” missile defense. […]
In the final moments of the men’s basketball gold medal game at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Coach Mike Krzyzewski remembers furiously writing up a play to extend Team USA’s lead over Spain. As he wrote the play, he recalled Kobe Bryant’s hand resting upon his hand, reassuring him that the team would get it done. […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Department of the Air Force (DAF) to halt its reorganization plans until new service leadership is confirmed by Congress, a spokesperson for the DAF told MeriTalk. […]
The Department of Commerce is implementing artificial intelligence (AI) processes in use cases across the agency to maximize efficiency and integrate human resources, management, finance, and IT processes across various platforms, according to a department official who spoke at the ServiceNow Federal Forum on Feb. 12. […]
About 75,000 Federal employees have accepted the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” offer, a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
President Donald Trump has nominated Sean Cairncross, who is chief counsel at the Republican National Committee (RNC), to become the next National Cyber Director (NCD), the White House announced on Wednesday. […]
The U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Command (NAVSEA) has a short window – two years – to ensure that the organization’s warfare centers are positioned to deliver ships on time and ready for tasking, an agency official said today. […]
The House Oversight and Reform Committee’s Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee quickly found a flashpoint – Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk – during its inaugural hearing today, with subcommittee Republicans hailing DOGE aims and Democratic members calling for the removal of “Musk and his hackers.” […]
The chief information officer (CIO) at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories shared on Wednesday how the organization is utilizing ServiceNow to cut costs and drive efficiencies through a new idea portal and workflows. […]
ServiceNow unveiled its new Government Transformation Suite today at the company’s Federal Forum conference in National Harbor, Md., with company officials emphasizing that the new product suite leverages agentic AI capabilities to further the goals of increasing visibility, accelerating return on investment, and driving efficiencies for Federal government customers. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Cybersecurity Service Provider team has introduced Endguard, a 24/7 endpoint detection and monitoring service designed to bolster cyber defense efforts for its strategic partners. […]
The Trump administration is continuing to battle in court to preserve its Federal grant and loan funding freeze, requesting that a U.S. appeals court stay pending appeal a temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by a Federal district court that halted the freeze effort last week. […]
President Donald Trump late on Tuesday issued an executive order that aims to make deep cuts to the Federal government civilian workforce via “reductions in force” – more commonly known as layoffs. […]
Lawmakers and tax experts today emphasized the compelling need to upgrade outdated IT systems at the IRS and leverage emerging technologies like AI to enhance the taxpayer experience. […]
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., today outlined her priorities for the 119th Congress to take on major technology areas including increased investment and regulation in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), and quantum science. […]
Federal workers and Democratic lawmakers rallied today to protest President Trump’s deferred resignation offer to government employees, calling the campaign an unlawful attack on the civil service and condemning the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – which has served as a tip on the spear of the administration’s job-cutting efforts – as more chaotic than effective. […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he welcomes Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to come to the Department of Defense (DoD) and help reduce “wasteful spending” – in line with his aim to have the Pentagon achieve the elusive goal of a clean financial audit. […]
Technology experts at the Department of Labor, U.S. Air Force, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and software provider Nutanix are emphasizing that government agencies should focus on implementing simple, flexible, and agile approaches to their artificial intelligence (AI) integrations. […]
Special Operations Forces (SOF) are confronting a critical inflection point in logistics strategy, where traditional approaches no longer align with emerging geopolitical challenges. The shift from counterterrorism to near-peer competition with countries like with China and Russia demands a reimagining of support capabilities in contested environments, where adversarial or inherent conditions threaten to disrupt continued operations. […]
Government’s approach to AI tech is once again wide open to endless possibilities with the new administration, and that’s why you need to meet up with us at Tech Tonic on March 13 at Morton’s in D.C. from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. to figure out the road forward. […]
The nonprofit University of California Student Association (UCSA) filed a complaint in Federal district court against the Department of Education on Feb. 7 seeking to halt the agency’s provision of “sensitive personal and financial information” to the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). […]
The White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), overseen by billionaire Elon Musk, has reportedly fed sensitive data from the Education Department into artificial intelligence software – leading numerous Democratic lawmakers to raise the warning flag if those reports turn out to be true. […]