After taking office today, President Donald Trump announced that his top priorities include bolstering the nation’s energy sector – which could help boost the power grid’s capacity for artificial intelligence. […]
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The Senate held a pre-nomination hearing on Wednesday for Chris Wright – Trump’s nominee for Department of Energy secretary – in which Wright outlined his plans for expanding nuclear energy technology, AI development, and quantum technology. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a nearly 200-page artificial intelligence plan, laying out its roadmap for how the department will oversee the emerging technology’s incorporation into the health sector. […]
President Biden today issued an executive order that directs the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Energy (DoE) to lease Federal government sites and allow private sector companies to use them in order to “build frontier AI infrastructure at speed and scale” all while powering those facilities with new clean energy sources. […]
The White House announced a new framework today that aims to maintain U.S. leadership in AI by keeping advanced computing chips and AI models under the control of the United States and its allies. […]
The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) is calling on the incoming Trump administration to prioritize workforce development, cybersecurity, and the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technology within the Intelligence Community (IC). […]
MeriTalk sat down with Josh Finke, who joined Lumen in 2024 as Senior Vice President, Public Sector, to talk about what the company is bringing forward to help Federal agencies as the new year kicks off. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a playbook for the public sector detailing what it calls the “responsible adoption” and “mission-focused” adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) has concluded a red teaming pilot that resulted in the identification of more than 800 vulnerabilities in the use of large language models (LLM) to enhance military medical services. […]
The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced new sanctions on entities in Iran and Russia over attempted election interference in the 2024 U.S. election – including by using artificial intelligence tools to create and disseminate disinformation. […]
The Information Technology Industry Council trade group is offering a slew of technology policy recommendations to the incoming Trump-Vance administration and its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), including modernizing legacy Federal IT systems and adopting a risk-based approach to AI technology. […]
The increasing use of artificial intelligence technology – both from security threat and protection improvement perspectives – are among the top look-ahead issues for 2025 among officials with providers of security technologies to the Federal government. […]
The Biden-Harris administration released its artificial intelligence (AI) executive order (EO) at the end of 2023, but most of the work to implement the directive took place in 2024. As MeriTalk reflects on the past year – and looks toward the future of Federal IT work during the Trump-Vance administration in 2025 and beyond – AI is positioned to make impactful strides across agencies, policy, and defense. […]
The Biden administration’s top economic advisor is praising progress made in strengthening semiconductor supply chains over the last few years and urging President-elect Donald Trump’s team to maintain efforts to strengthen those supply chains. […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) needs to update its AI risk assessment guidance for agencies that protect critical infrastructure, as a new report reveals that DHS’s initial guidance didn’t have agencies fully measure how much harm an attack could cause, or gauge the probability of an attack. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) unveiled its consolidated 2024 Federal AI use case inventory this week – noting that agencies have reported over 1,700 use cases – more than doubling the 757 AI tools reported in 2023. […]
The Department of Energy (DOE) is using artificial intelligence (AI) tech for missions that range from responding to emergencies to planning energy investments and determining the risks of nuclear weapons, the department’s new principal deputy chief information officer said on Dec. 18. […]
Government officials at both the Federal and state levels are working on a wide range of new AI use cases with focuses on administrative efficiency and improving decision-making, several Federal and city officials said this week. […]
The House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence released its final 253-page report on Tuesday morning, providing sweeping policy recommendations and laying out a roadmap for what lawmakers are calling an “agile approach” to the new technology. […]
By John Dvorak, chief technology officer, public sector, Red Hat Using AI safely and effectively is an open-ended challenge and government agencies can easily get overwhelmed with trying to develop AI strategies, hire or contract teams of data scientists, onboard chief AI officers and so on. But starting to build an AI strategy doesn’t have […]
The U.S. intelligence community (IC) has a new rulebook to guide its use of open-source data and publicly available information, including artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted services and generative AI (GenAI) tools. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Open Government Federal Advisory Committee (OG FAC) will consider how to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into its mission to make government more accountable and increase public access to government data, a panel member said on Dec. 11. […]
The Pentagon announced today that it is sunsetting its organization that developed, evaluated, recommended, and monitored generative AI capabilities across the Defense Department (DoD) – dubbed Task Force Lima – and is replacing it with a new AI Rapid Capabilities Cell (AI RCC). […]
Tech sector experts said this week that the second Trump administration is expected to create a very “pro innovation” – and particularly – a “pro AI” platform. […]
President-elect Trump’s decision to appoint a prominent Silicon Valley investor to oversee Federal artificial intelligence (AI) policy points to changes that may be coming in how the government approaches its use of the technology – including what is expected to be a looser regulatory style and a possible repeal or modification of President Biden’s AI executive order (EO). […]
The House Artificial Intelligence Task Force’s upcoming final report will focus on breaking up regulations into “bite-sized pieces” and not blocking future advances in AI technology, said task force co-chair Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., on Wednesday. […]
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to launch an upgraded version of NanCI – an app that serves a similar purpose to social media by allowing cancer researchers to connect with one another. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Acquisition Policy Federal Advisory Committee (GAP FAC) held its first meeting today after tapping 14 new members and turning to new areas of focus including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cybersecurity. […]
New legislation aimed at improving the transparency of artificial intelligence-powered products in financial services was introduced on Wednesday. […]
A congressional advisory body is calling on lawmakers to establish and fund a “Manhattan Project-like program dedicated to racing to and acquiring an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) capability.” […]