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Republicans on the House Committee on Homeland Security have said that while the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) isn’t going anywhere despite Federal funding and workforce cuts, the agency needs to get back to its “core mission.”  […]

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Scott Kupor, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and Eric Ueland, the nominee for deputy director for management (DDM) at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), both told lawmakers today that, if confirmed, each will make data privacy a priority. […]

Bipartisan legislation reintroduced in the House on March 31 would make permanent the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot in an effort to bolster AI research in the United States and promote responsible use of the technology.   […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is in the middle of modernizing a data system responsible for tracking diseases across the nation, but recent layoffs and contract uncertainty have put the future of the critical system in jeopardy. […]

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) today kicked off a public working group that will explore the possibility of creating key security indicators (KSIs) that could help the program more rapidly evaluate the security of cloud services. […]

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Health and Human Services HHS

A wave of top cybersecurity and IT Federal officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its component agencies have announced their terminations as HHS follows through on the restructuring plan it announced last week. […]

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Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., is asking 24 Federal agencies to explain how and whether the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and DOGE-affiliated individuals have accessed and used data in Federal IT systems. […]

The Pentagon is a very large building that houses a lot of the authorities for the U.S. Military. It's big. This photo doesn't do it justice, but they're kinda rightly concerned about people flying drones around there.

The Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Data and AI Office (CDAO) has launched a new series of experiments aimed at improving data integration and ensuring operators can fully leverage advanced command-and-control (C2) capabilities, according to a senior Pentagon tech official. […]

Democratic and Republican lawmakers on the House Oversight and Reform Committee clashed over methods of meeting the increasing power demands for artificial intelligence data centers during a Tuesday hearing on the topic.   […]

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Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, who is President Trump’s nominee to be the next Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, told lawmakers today that the Department of Defense’s (DoD) budget and requirements process need significant reforms to better address evolving threats facing the United States. […]

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An executive order issued by the White House on March 31 is wrapping the Commerce Department’s CHIPS Program Office into a newly created United States Investment Accelerator that will have the mission of smoothing the way for foreign and domestic business investments exceeding $1 billion. […]

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) scored a temporary win last week, with a Federal appeals court sparing them from revealing their spending-cut plans and authority – at least for now. […]

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The Senate has confirmed Paul Lawrence to become the deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), putting him in charge of overseeing the VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program. […]

FedRAMP

Officials with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) explained today that the program plans to unwind its historical role of providing continuous monitoring for cloud services authorized by FedRAMP following sharp cuts to the program’s workforce. […]

Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Health Care Center

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced on Monday the list of the nine additional VA medical facilities that will deploy the Federal Electronic Health Record (EHR) system in 2026, with sites located in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Alaska. […]

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Treasury

The U.S. Army has canceled its plans to pursue a $10 billion contract for acquiring rapid software development services, ending further solicitations and awarding no contract. […]

Leading tech companies all around the world are pointing the way toward improving security by implementing the basic tenet of World BackUp Day on March 31: back up your data to better protect against data loss and theft. […]

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