The U.S. Army is increasingly leveraging artificial intelligence capabilities – including predictive analytics and machine learning – to enhance decision-making, battlefield awareness, and equipment reliability, a senior service official said this week. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is partnering with tech giant NVIDIA to invest a total of $152 million into artificial intelligence models that will accelerate innovation and scientific discovery while supporting priorities under the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan. […]
Federal agencies face a complex balancing act. They must simultaneously modernize legacy systems, embed zero-trust security, and harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI), all while talent pipelines shrink and budgets tighten. A recent MeriTalk webinar, “Secure Cloud Modernization: Empowering Federal Teams for an AI-Enabled Future,” convened government and industry leaders who have tackled these challenges head on. […]
The Trump administration is pitching a sweeping overhaul of the American workforce system centered on developing artificial intelligence skills, rapid retraining, and breaking away from the “college-for-all” model it says has failed. […]
A Federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can maintain access to sensitive data held by Federal agencies. […]
Lynne Parker, the principal deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), said this week she is leaving OSTP and government service. […]
David Ellison is the Chief Data Scientist & Director of AI Engineering for Lenovo ISG. Through Lenovo’s U.S. and European AI Discover Centers, he leads a team that uses cutting-edge AI techniques to deliver solutions for external customers while internally supporting the overall AI strategy for the World Wide Infrastructure Solutions Group. Before joining Lenovo, […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) on Wednesday announced a new OneGov agreement with Box, the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, to provide Federal agencies with discounted pricing on AI tools. […]
With AI applications and the data-driven capabilities that drive them hotter than the July heat wave, it’s time to elevate to the expert level on the Splunk platform at Splunk’s .conf25 User Conference in Boston Sept. 18-11. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is wrapping Anthropic’s Claude generative AI services into its OneGov portfolio of services for government agencies – at $1 per agency – similar to the pricing levels set by GSA last week under a similar deal announced with OpenAI for its ChatGPT GenAI service. […]
Dean Ball, who played a large role in developing the White House’s recently released AI Action Plan, announced today that he has stepped down as a senior policy advisor on AI and emerging technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new funding opportunity this week that aims to invest up to $100 million to support a network of “programmable cloud laboratories,” enabled by AI. […]
A group of Republican senators is asking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to investigate data security vulnerabilities posed by Chinese open-source AI models – such as DeepSeek – that might be feeding information back to the Chinese government. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) said today it has reached terms of an agreement with OpenAI to provide Federal agencies with the company’s ChatGPT generative AI service at a deep pricing discount. […]
By Dario Perez, VP Federal Civilian and SLED, Cloudera Artificial intelligence presents a transformative opportunity for government, from enhancing national defense readiness to improving citizen services and enabling data-driven decision-making at scale. However, to move from promising pilots to scalable, mission-aligned deployments, agencies must focus on what lies beneath the surface: trusted data and infrastructure. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today that it has added three prominent generative AI services to the agency’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), and is open to adding additional services. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a $54 million contract to MetTel to modernize the VA’s telecom infrastructure, which includes 15,000 telephone landlines across 1,875 locations. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced today that it plans to reduce the number of personnel working at its scientific archive center to refocus on the “core mission and save taxpayer dollars.” […]
A new consortium devoted to secure software development and led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its draft guide for public comment that responds to instructions in a cybersecurity order from the White House earlier this summer. […]
A group of Democratic senators has introduced a new bill that aims to protect Americans’ privacy by requiring an audit of Federal agency computer systems and networks accessed by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). […]
Bob Venero is the President, CEO and Founder of Future Tech Enterprise, Inc., an award-winning, global IT solutions provider headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He founded Future Tech in 1996 from the basement of his home. Since then, he has spearheaded the company’s exceptional growth, positioning Future Tech as an IT partner-of-choice for leading companies […]
The State Department and the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs & Border Protection component are two of the latest Federal agencies to deploy artificial intelligence-driven chat bots and virtual reality systems to guide their hiring processes and support workforce training – with more use cases on the horizon – agency officials said on July 29. […]
The White House and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) unveiled sweeping data initiatives on Wednesday with the launch of a program to let Americans share medical records across privately-owned apps while consolidating HHS data into a single database. […]
Amy Henninger, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon’s Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) directorate, outlined a tech-centric vision for the future of defense testing during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee today. […]
In Congress’s latest attempt to regulate artificial intelligence, House and Senate lawmakers are reintroducing legislation to promote public-private collaboration on testing financial sector AI systems. […]
The White House’s newly issued AI Action Plan looks to cement U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence, but White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Michael Kratsios said on Wednesday that the “ultimate solution” to win the AI race requires Congress. […]
Federal Chief Information Officer Greg Barbaccia has been appointed to the additional position of Federal chief AI officer as the Trump administration begins work executing on the ambitious agenda laid out in the AI Action Plan released by the White House on July 23. […]
By: Tony Orlando, GM Specialty Sales, Google Public Sector Government agencies rely on IT providers to provide secure, compliant, and efficient technology to help complete their vital missions. At the same time, cost-savings and productivity are taking center stage. These priorities – lower cost with better security and productivity – may seem at odds, but […]
Join us for MeriTalk Tech Tonic on September 18 at Morton’s The Steakhouse in Washington, D.C. as we launch the 2026 Fed CIO Report and dig into top priorities from Federal IT leaders. […]