U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on Feb. 7 announced key members of the executive leadership team to lead the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI) – which will be established at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). […]

Federal agencies called on all organizations today to urgently implement a series of cybersecurity actions after discovering that a Chinese-based hacking group has compromised the IT environments of multiple U.S. critical infrastructure organizations – with the end goal of a future cyberattack. […]

The State Department said this week it is implementing a new policy creating visa restrictions for people who use commercial spyware technology for illicit purposes. […]

The head of the Defense Department’s (DoD) Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office said this week that he is looking for firms to focus on product integration possibilities as they pitch zero trust security strategies to the Pentagon. […]

The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) talent center is working to expand its workforce diversity by establishing hiring procedures that will help individuals in the neurodivergent community to better present themselves during the hiring process, according to a senior CIA official. […]

During his first public address in Washington, D.C., today, the White House’s newly confirmed National Cyber Director (NCD) Harry Coker keyed on several initiatives ONCD has in the works to further implement President Biden’s National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS). […]

Top IT experts at the Departments of Treasury and Veterans Affairs (VA) said that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) program holds a lot of promise, but is “still in its infancy” with program kinks to be worked out. […]

Federal IT is experiencing an explosion of complexity. At the same time, government is being asked to innovate and move faster. To meet these requirements and reduce complexity, agencies must change the way they work – both technically and culturally. In this episode of MeriTalking, MeriTalk’s Gail Emery is joined by Brian Mikkelsen, Datadog’s vice […]

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will be rolling out a zero trust network access (ZTNA) solution as part of the next step of the agency’s zero trust implementation journey, an agency official said on Feb. 6. […]

Top cybersecurity and critical infrastructure experts voiced concerns to lawmakers today at a House Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing that neither the government nor the private sector are doing enough to secure operational technology (OT) networks of critical infrastructure organizations. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) launched its National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot on Jan. 24, and already lawmakers and Feds are optimistic about the program’s ability to serve as a shared national infrastructure to support the AI research community and power responsible AI use. […]

The race to develop regulations for artificial intelligence technologies is on, and members of the House of Representatives are hoping to set up their own AI working group this month to help craft comprehensive regulations. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) has launched the first of two artificial intelligence (AI) Bias Bounty exercises, the agency announced last week. […]

The Department of Commerce is looking to push cloud providers to supply more in-depth knowledge of their foreign customer base, as part of President Biden’s executive orders on AI and cybersecurity. […]

MeriTalk’s mixologists are giving the artist formerly known as Cyber Smoke a new shake. As of 2024, the bi-monthly power networking event is called MeriTalk Tech Tonic. […]

As artificial intelligence continues to become more widely leveraged, lawmakers introduced a new bill Thursday that aims to better understand the environmental impacts of the technology’s development and use. […]

Members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee are requesting additional documents and information from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regarding Federal agencies’ telework and remote policies. […]

House lawmakers and industry experts joined together in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 2 to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property, showcasing wide support for the recently introduced No Artificial Intelligence Fake Replicas and Unauthorized Duplications (AI FRAUD) Act. […]

Nancy Sieger, chief technology officer (CTO) at the Department of Treasury, will be stepping down from that post later this year after 35 years of government service, she said in a LinkedIn post. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced it is looking to update its Privacy Framework to Version 1.1, four years after the release of its original framework in January 2020. […]

An official with the Defense Department’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) outlined what he called the office’s planned “big plays” for the rest of fiscal year 2024 during a Jan. 31 AI Acquisition Forum hosted by ACT-IAC. […]

The U.S. Treasury Department has tapped Todd Conklin to be the agency’s new chief artificial intelligence officer and deputy assistant secretary cyber, according to his LinkedIn account. […]

The Federal government is already using artificial intelligence technologies, but one tech expert this week explained that it’s crucial to leverage “radical collaboration” to put a formal AI governance model in place – such as an Authority to Operate (ATO). […]

Federal agencies have until the end of the day to shut down two widely used software products due to major cybersecurity vulnerabilities. […]

The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) must establish performance measures and implementation costs for the administration’s recent National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS) in order for the strategy to be effective across all Federal agencies, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report argues. […]

The Pentagon’s lack of a comprehensive and coordinated approach to tracking and reporting unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) – or UFOs as they are often called – is endangering U.S. national security, according to an unclassified summary of a report prepared by the Department of Defense (DoD) inspector general (IG). […]

The Interior Department has tapped Andy Lewandowski to serve as its first-ever chief digital experience officer – effective Jan. 29 – a department spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) published its 2023 End of Year Report on the Open-Source Software Security Initiative (OS3I) this week, highlighting four key areas the group made progress in over the last year. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) plans to pilot an artificial intelligence (AI) prototype to serve as a “digital concierge” to enhance its workforce’s capabilities, an agency official said. […]

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. – ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation – expressed disappointment today in his Republican colleagues for a lack of participation in the 17th edition of the FITARA Scorecard. […]