Witnesses warned lawmakers today during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing that allowing China to purchase advanced U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) chips would pose serious national security risks. […]
A new Senate bill would direct the U.S. Small Business Administration to provide a range of help to small businesses that are looking to implement artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. […]
Cameron Stanley will serve as the Pentagon’s next chief digital and artificial intelligence officer (CDAO), Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Jan. 12 during an address at SpaceX headquarters in Starbase, Texas. […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo this week unveiling a new artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to expand the military’s use of AI across operations, intelligence, and enterprise functions. […]
The Trump administration is withdrawing the United States from its longstanding participation in the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE). […]
The United States expanded its Pax Silica economic security initiative with the addition of Qatar, as U.S. officials continue to signal broader growth of the partnership aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) and supply chain security. […]
Federal agencies should prioritize interoperable platforms, strong governance, and more disciplined use of data as they modernize systems with artificial intelligence (AI), according to a senior federal AI expert during a recent GovCIO webinar. […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced this week that it is looking for a new organization to serve as the lead administrator for its U.S. Cyber Trust Mark Program. […]
The Pentagon is seeking ideas on how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning could be used to accelerate and scale zero trust cybersecurity assessments across the Defense Department (DOD), which was rebranded as the War Department by the Trump administration. […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) to accelerate the reallocation of key spectrum bands for commercial 6G use within the next year. […]
As 2025 comes to a close, MeriTalk is taking a look back at the year in federal cybersecurity. From policy updates and leadership changes to audits, guidance, and major program developments, agencies spent the year responding to persistent threats while adjusting long-term cyber strategies. […]
With 2026 around the corner, MeriTalk took a stroll back in time to look at some of the biggest moments of the year for artificial intelligence (AI). […]
Witnesses at a House subcommittee hearing urged lawmakers to move faster on cybersecurity policy, warning that current defenses, regulations, and procurement timelines are being overtaken by rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing. […]
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) faces growing challenges in artificial intelligence (AI) adoption as systems become more powerful but less explainable, according to the service’s innovation chief. […]
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., said on Tuesday that Congress may need to do another short-term extension of a critical cybersecurity information-sharing law. […]
The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is soliciting information from industry, academia, and other organizations interested in demonstrating agentic artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in a technical experimentation event from April 13-17, 2026, at Avon Park Air Force Range in Florida. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) logged more than $3.9 billion in total orders as of the last fiscal year, with military services continuing to expand their use of the contract, agency officials said Monday. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is adopting a “cyber dominance” strategy to better protect veterans’ data, according to Eddie Pool, the acting principal deputy assistant secretary for information and technology at the VA. […]
The Pentagon on Tuesday rolled out GenAI.mil, a new platform designed to bring frontier artificial intelligence tools to the military workforce. […]
Lawmakers and industry experts are warning that President Donald Trump’s decision on Monday to allow the sale of Nvidia-manufactured chips used in advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to China puts national security at risk. […]
China-linked backdoor malware gave cyber actors access for at least 17 months into numerous organizations’ networks, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) warned in a joint-advisory. […]
A bill introduced in the House this week would task the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) with “formally” identifying foreign agencies, people, and other groups that are responsible for recent attacks against the United States and directs a separate effort to improve the current distribution of attack attribution data. […]
Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced a bipartisan bill today that would reauthorize the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP), a key program that helps state, local, and tribal governments prevent cyberattacks. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) said on Nov. 24 it has eliminated its backlog of Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) applications – a program that offers health care benefits to more than 900,000 qualifying beneficiaries – with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). […]
The U.S. Coast Guard (USGS) is seeking industry input on commercial artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled solutions to modernize its procurement and acquisition processes, issuing a request for information (RFI) for market research and planning purposes. […]
The Pentagon is rolling out a revised cyber force generation model aimed at increasing the effectiveness of its cyber forces and providing improved operational support to the Joint Force. […]
Without strong cybersecurity and privacy safeguards, growing collections of law enforcement data pose an “existential” threat, as adversaries exploit that information to compromise major investigations, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) warned in a new report. […]
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), a global tech trade association, released a new paper on Nov. 7 that outlines recommendations for policymakers focused on fostering adoption and promoting trust in agentic artificial intelligence (AI). […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) overall information security program is ineffective, and the agency continues to face challenges safeguarding and tracking its IT equipment, according to two recent reports from the CFPB’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). […]
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Tuesday $625 million in funding to support its five National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers, which were originally established by the National Quantum Initiative Act in 2018. […]