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CISA

The Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) would lose more than 1,000 employees under the Trump administration’s fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget proposal – totaling about 29 percent of the agency’s current workforce – new White House documents show.  […]

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The Trump administration has cancelled funding for a Department of Labor (DoL) grant program that was used to fund modernization efforts for states’ unemployment insurance (UI) systems that were overwhelmed with claims during the coronavirus pandemic.   […]

NIST

The Department of Justice (DoJ) is cracking down on cybercrime infrastructure, announcing on May 22 that it unsealed the charges against 16 individuals linked to the DanaBot malware scheme and indicted the alleged leader of the Qakbot malware conspiracy. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) told the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) this week that it still needs to work through an extensive list of foundational considerations as the agency moves forward with modernizing the IT systems it uses to manage radiofrequency spectrum. […]

HUD Urban Development

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has appointed Eric Sidle as the agency’s new chief information officer. […]

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) – the Federal regulatory agency that supervises credit unions – does not have some key tools it needs to oversee AI use, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). […]

CISA

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently launched a program that it hopes will help improve its management of software licenses – an issue that has drawn recent scrutiny from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) announced on Monday a cost-saving agreement with Salesforce to offer Slack Enterprise Grid at a temporary price reduction of 90 percent, along with an almost 70 percent off Slack AI for every Federal agency. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published its initial draft of updated cybersecurity guidelines for Internet of Things (IoT) manufacturers which includes a wider scope of products and more post-market considerations.  […]

Gerry Connolly

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is calling for an investigation into what he says are “irresponsible” IT policies and the “abuse of Americans’ tax data” at the IRS by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). […]

CMS

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), told lawmakers on Wednesday that HHS is “very aggressively” leveraging AI technologies to drive efficiencies and offset the operational impacts of proposed cuts in the department’s fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget. […]

The latest edition of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) annual review of Federal spending overlap, duplication, and fragmentation is taking aim at IT project reviews by the largest 24 government agencies and estimating that implementing statutory requirements for those types of reviews could save the government more than $100 million. […]

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The General Services Administration’s (GSA) newly launched generative AI tool is reserved for internal use for now, but GSA Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Zach Whitman said today that the tool has the potential to be applied across government to empower the entire Federal workforce. […]

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The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) central database – where it stores environmental data received from companies, states, and tribes – isn’t properly secured, leaving it vulnerable to cyber threat actors, a new report from the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) finds. […]

The Federal government’s latest stab at modernizing Federal worker and contractor vetting has improved screening processes but left many agencies unable to fully comply with updated policies due to incompatible IT systems, a new watchdog report finds.  […]

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