The Defense Department (DOD) on Tuesday unveiled a new tool that allows its workforce to build custom artificial intelligence (AI) assistants without coding experience. […]

A bipartisan bill introduced to the Senate on Wednesday would create a commission of lawmakers and industry leaders to develop policy recommendations to address future economic and workforce impacts of artificial intelligence (AI).   […]

Charles Worthington, the chief technology officer (CTO) and chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer (CAIO) at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), announced on Thursday that he is leaving the agency. […]

Department of Energy (DOE) and Dell Technologies leaders on Thursday cast the agency’s new Genesis Mission and the forthcoming Doudna supercomputer as central to a broader push to accelerate U.S. scientific discovery through artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). […]

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. […]

MeriTalk recently sat down with two cybersecurity experts at Acalvio, Suril Desai, vice president of engineering, and Ralph Kahn, general manager for federal, to discuss how AI-powered cyber deception works, why it offers a preemptive defense advantage, and how it supports federal cybersecurity priorities, including zero trust and layered defense strategies. […]

Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said Tuesday that Congress has been slow to address the privacy and regulatory challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI) and voiced doubts that lawmakers can come together on a bipartisan framework for the rapidly advancing technology.  […]

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.  […]

A bipartisan group of senators is calling on the U.S. government to expand data collection on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the U.S. workforce, seeking to determine the likelihood that AI advances will disrupt the labor market and cause job losses. […]

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. […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) embedded in the ServiceNow platform is helping the National Science Foundation (NSF) accelerate IT service delivery and better manage large volumes of requests, according to a senior agency IT leader speaking at the ServiceNow Government Forum. […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already helping employees at the Department of Transportation (DOT) work more efficiently, but building trust in the technology will be critical to scaling its use in the department and across the federal government, a senior agency official said on Thursday. […]

The Department of State is finding that success with artificial intelligence (AI) depends less on advanced algorithms and more on disciplined data governance, a department technology leader said Thursday.  […]

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.   […]

Federal defense agencies are seeing operational gains from deploying ServiceNow platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) tools, with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) cutting its average customer service case resolution time by 60% and the U.S. Air Force using the platform to standardize systems and improve enterprise-wide visibility. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is using zero trust principles to prepare its data for artificial intelligence (AI), Michael Hauck, the agency’s acting chief data officer (CDO) and acting chief AI officer, said today.   […]

MeriTalk recently sat down with Anish Patel, director of federal sales at Cloudflare, to discuss why shadow AI is often a workforce signal rather than rebellion; what an AI-ready security posture looks like across human, prompt, and agentic layers; and more. […]

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. […]

President Donald Trump on Friday ordered all federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology,” ending an ongoing dispute between the Pentagon and the artificial intelligence (AI) company. […]

More than 1 million unique users across the Pentagon are integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their daily workflows, and the department plans to launch several new AI models “very, very soon,” a senior defense official said on Thursday.  […]

The U.S. Marine Corps plans to expand its Digital Transformation Teams (DTXs) as part of a four-phase effort to scale artificial intelligence (AI) across the service, according to a senior official. […]

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. […]

The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is partnering with the Department of the Army to rapidly adopt AI-enabled coding tools across the workforce of the Defense Department (DOD) – rebranded as the War Department by the Trump administration. […]

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.  […]