The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) is urging federal agencies to tighten cloud security practices following a review of oversight reports that identified recurring security weaknesses and improvement opportunities across government cloud deployments. […]

A bipartisan pairing of House members has introduced legislation that would direct the Education Department to award up to $10 million in grants to promote the integration of cybersecurity education into career and technical education programs that benefit the U.S. critical infrastructure workforce. […]

Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., and four other House Democrats are asking federal watchdogs to investigate how officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) handled polygraph tests taken by the agency’s former acting director, Madu Gottumukkala.  […]

Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., said Congress must play a role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence (AI), including how the technology is regulated as it becomes embedded in the daily lives of millions of Americans. […]

The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is launching a new data strategy aimed at improving decision-making speed and readiness across military medical operations by turning agency data into an actionable asset.  […]

As artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates the speed and sophistication of cyberattacks, federal agencies need new ways to detect adversaries earlier in the attack lifecycle. Cybersecurity leaders from Acalvio discuss how AI-powered cyber deception helps agencies identify attackers sooner, reduce false positives, and strengthen zero trust detection strategies. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) is proposing new contract guidelines that would require artificial intelligence (AI) vendors selling services to the federal government to allow agencies to use their models for “any lawful” government purpose.  […]

The Pentagon appointed Gavin Kliger, a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee, as the new chief data officer (CDO) for the Department of Defense (DOD), placing him at the center of the department’s expanding artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. […]

General Services Administration (GSA) leaders said Wednesday that the agency’s OneGov program has generated $800 million in governmentwide savings so far, signaling that larger returns may follow as the program expands.  […]

The U.S. Army rolled out a new digital platform to track and manage soldier equipment and uniforms, a senior official said during the ServiceNow Government Forum 2026. […]

Seven of the nation’s largest tech companies signed President Donald Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge on Wednesday, agreeing to cover the cost of all power needed to fuel their data centers.   […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $352 million funding opportunity for its Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) program that it hopes will one day lead to next-generation energy technologies.   […]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is accelerating its transition to a zero trust architecture, replacing what one agency official described as a “flat” network environment that posed a “huge security vulnerability.” […]

President Donald Trump sent two names to the Senate on Monday for his picks to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF) and fill the role of ambassador at large for the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy at the State Department.  […]

A bipartisan group of senators is reigniting efforts to codify the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Standards and Innovation (CAISI) and create new standards and testbeds for the national laboratories to accelerate AI innovation.  […]

As federal agencies push artificial intelligence (AI) beyond pilots, scaling the technology requires a hard look at existing workflows – particularly whether they are “elastic” or “inelastic” – and a willingness to redesign how humans and machines work together, said Dan Tadross, head of public sector at Scale AI. […]

On March 3, join leaders from across government, educational institutions, and industry for the 2026 Zscaler Public Sector Summit at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. to explore how Zero Trust Everywhere and AI-driven security approaches protect critical systems, safeguard sensitive data, and empower agencies to maintain trust in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. […]

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is leading a bipartisan congressional effort to reauthorize a legal provision with additional safeguards to prevent the government’s surveillance of Americans’ digital data without a warrant.   […]

A new era of government operations is taking shape – one powered by artificial intelligence (AI). What was once experimental is now transformational, as agencies harness AI to reimagine workflows, accelerate decision-making, and meet rising mission demands. […]

President Donald Trump said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that technology companies will be required to supply their own electricity for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, framing the move as a way to protect consumers from rising utility costs. […]

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is entering the scale phase of its artificial intelligence (AI) implementation and has hundreds of AI projects underway, Israel Soong, deputy director of the CIA’s Office of AI, said Tuesday.  […]

“We are drowning in data, but we are starved for knowledge,” Zhong Wang, a computational biologist and staff scientist at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), said recently, paraphrasing Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner.  […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) cyber threats have reached a critical turning point, with an 89% year-over-year increase in attacks by AI-enabled adversaries, according to a report issued Tuesday from cybersecurity services provider CrowdStrike. […]

The United States joined more than 80 countries in signing the New Delhi Declaration on AI Impact, signaling a global shift toward voluntary safety measures and accelerated innovation.  […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is taking another step toward operationalizing its artificial intelligence (AI) safety agenda and is seeking companies that can host and run open-weight AI models for federal evaluation efforts.  […]

A pair of Democrats on the House Science and Technology committee want to know if the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is prohibiting foreign-born researchers from working at the agency.  […]

MeriTalk recently sat down with Matt Marsden, senior director of technical solutions – federal at Palo Alto Networks, to discuss how platformization enables greater operational effectiveness, why crypto-agility matters now, and the practical steps agency leaders can take today to build an identity-aware, AI-ready, and quantum-resistant future. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) warned that most Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities in a recent review lack basic data to track whether veterans’ specialty care calls are being answered, raising concerns about delays in access to care. […]

The State Department awarded potentially $10 billion in contracts under its EVOLVE enterprise IT acquisition program, which aims to improve the department’s security posture and drive innovation and modernization.  […]

Throughout February, the Treasury Department plans to issue six resources intended to help enable secure and resilient artificial intelligence (AI) across the financial services sector. The agency released the first two resources on Thursday. […]