Artificial intelligence is transforming the way the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) conducts operations along the U.S. border, according to a senior official who spoke Wednesday during a webinar hosted by NextGov. […]
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is harnessing artificial intelligence and “structured professional judgment” tools to identify insider threat risks earlier and more effectively, according to a senior agency official. […]
The U.S. Department of Labor is advising states to take advantage of federal government Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act grants to fund their efforts to improve artificial intelligence literacy and training across state workforces through state and local workforce development systems. […]
Artificial intelligence technologies offer a range of benefits to federal agencies, but an official from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Tuesday warned that agencies should not view AI as “the silver bullet that fixes everything.” […]
Some Federal agencies are already taking steps to comply with the Trump administration’s Artificial Intelligence Action Plan and other executive orders, including deploying AI systems – such as those that employ agentic AI – with the goal of creating more tailored approaches to the technology. […]
Nearly half of all Federal agency mission-critical operations are taking place at the network edge, but an underprepared workforce, legacy systems, and budget constraints are threatening to impede further progress by government, new survey data from General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) finds. […]
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. […]
The U.S. Air Force is seeking insight from industry on how it can use artificial intelligence–powered wargaming platforms to test training resilience under high-intensity conflict. […]
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. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) today unveiled its USAi platform, created to offer government agencies the ability to experiment with artificial intelligence technologies and inform their decisions to put the tech to work. […]
Federal housing regulators need to exercise stronger oversight of facial recognition and other technology tools used in public housing operations, a Federal watchdog says in a new report, warning that without clearer rules, the technology could fuel discrimination against renters. […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the winners of its inaugural AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a two-year competition aimed at advancing the use of artificial intelligence to secure critical open-source software systems. […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is ramping up its internal generative AI tools and is preparing to roll out an AI training portal “very soon” to help the workforce become more comfortable using GenAI. […]
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 U.S. Army is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to help manage airspace operations, as the environment grows increasingly complex with the rapid proliferation of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) – more commonly known as drones. […]
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. […]
Federal agency use cases for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies rose sharply last year, signaling increased interest in GenAI tech deployments across the 11 agencies reviewed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a new report. […]
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. […]
President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan released on July 23 issues a warning to states that create their own regulations for artificial intelligence technologies by saying those states should not be recipients of Federal government AI-related funding going forward. […]
The Trump administration is designating the Federal government’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Council (CAIOC) as the “primary venue for interagency coordination and collaboration on AI adoption,” according to the White House’s AI Action Plan published on July 23. […]
The White House issued its AI Action Plan this week, which includes a recommendation to establish an “AI global alliance” with key allies to ensure adversaries do not get their hands on technologies that the United States is looking to impose export controls on. […]
While the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan published this week features numerous novel approaches to keep the United States in a leading position in the global AI development and deployment race, one of the most striking of those is its call to develop a commodity-like market for compute resources. […]
President Donald Trump’s new action plan on artificial intelligence (AI) calls on the Pentagon to rapidly adopt AI solutions across the Department of Defense (DoD) ecosystem — from warfighting to back-office operations. […]
The White House released its long-awaited AI Action Plan today with a renewed focus on easing permitting requirements to promote faster buildouts of data centers and semiconductor manufacturing plants in the United States. […]
There are going to be millions of AI-directed robots existing among us in the next few years, and it’s time for Congress to get ready for that reality. […]
Top artificial intelligence practitioners, developers, and visionaries across government and the private sector gathered on Thursday evening at MeriTalk’s Tech Tonic event in Washington, D.C., to honor the 2025 class of AI Honors Award Winners. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on Wednesday a new partnership with Voltage Park in support of the agency’s National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot. […]
Senate and House lawmakers have outlined competing visions for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year (FY) 2026, setting the stage for negotiations over national security policy and military spending priorities and in particular laying out different next steps for the Pentagon on artificial intelligence (AI) approaches. […]