President Trump on Monday declared an immediate but temporary freeze on hiring of Federal government civilian employees – but with plenty of wide exceptions for military and public safety positions and for agencies that distribute benefits to citizens. […]
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President Biden’s latest cybersecurity-themed executive order issued today aims to engineer security improvements in at least a dozen major areas, with Federal agency systems, cloud services, and software emerging as prominent topics on an exhaustive list of security policy items. […]
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 White House on Tuesday launched the long-awaited U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program for wireless internet of things (IoT) devices marketed to consumers. […]
A group of 40 public and private sector experts unveiled a report Tuesday that lays out more than three dozen cyber policy recommendations for the next administration to prioritize when elected in November. […]
The White House announced on Thursday its plans to launch a new Task Force on AI Datacenter Infrastructure to coordinate policy across government, along with other actions to ensure the United States continues to lead in AI tech. […]
The International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI), which first launched with 31 participating countries in 2021, is now nearing 70 international members that are committed to reducing the risk of ransomware attacks globally. […]
The White House’s National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) issued a new report on Monday that offers policy recommendations for the U.S. government in order to advance international cooperation in quantum information science and technology (QIST). […]
The White House announced Friday that it has hit the nine-month mark of its AI Executive Order (EO), and Federal agencies remain on track with their required directives – with two agencies reporting they are ahead of schedule. […]
The Biden administration on July 26 published an implementation roadmap for its 2023 National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technology (USG NSSCET) that strongly endorses an industry-led approach to developing international standards for the development of emerging and critical technologies. […]
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has sent to the White House six recommendations approved by the council that are aimed at growing the Federal pool of workers skilled in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). […]
The Biden administration is tallying up a total of $395 billion of commitments to invest in U.S. semiconductor and electronics sectors thus far over the administration, according to the White House’s Invest.gov website. […]
The White House has set the wheels in motion to bring the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) to its full roster of five members. […]
President Biden issued an executive order today aimed at fortifying America’s supply chains, with a particular emphasis on critical infrastructure (CI). […]
The White House has enlisted Microsoft and Google to provide free cybersecurity services to rural hospitals following recent cyberattacks targeting the nation’s healthcare system. […]
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) ended on May 31 – much to the chagrin of FCC and Biden administration leadership – leaving millions of Americans at risk of losing their subsidized internet service. […]
The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on May 1 announced new private sector commitments to improve equity in the science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) ecosystem as part of a STEMM Equity and Excellence 2050 plan unveiled by the STEMM Opportunity Alliance (SOA). […]
President Biden today signed a new national security memorandum (NSM) that aims to better protect U.S. critical infrastructure sectors by enlisting U.S. intelligence agencies to ramp up their sharing of threat data across multiple levels of government and with private-sector critical infrastructure providers. […]
The Biden administration announced on Monday that it awarded a record-breaking $178.6 to small businesses in fiscal year (FY) 2023, representing 28.4 percent of all contracting dollars and an increase of about $16 billion from FY2022. […]
The White House on Feb. 19 announced that the Commerce Department has signed a preliminary memorandum to provide $1.5 billion of direct funding approved by Congress via the CHIPS and Science Act to Malta, N.Y.-based GlobalFoundries. The company would use that money to bolster semiconductor production at three manufacturing sites in New York and Vermont. […]
The White House has nominated Anne Wagner to serve as a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), which is an independent Federal agency that focuses on promoting and establishing fair labor practices in the Federal government. […]
President Biden this week sent to the Senate two renominations that would fill out the three-member roster of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and give the board a permanent chair to help it continue efforts to reduce a long-standing backlog of thousands of cases. […]
The White House is looking for a new chief information officer (CIO) to serve as the principal adviser and consultant to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director and senior leadership team on all OMB IT matters. […]
The White House on Tuesday gathered together more than a dozen Federal leaders across the government for its inaugural AI Council meeting. […]
A top White House cybersecurity official said Thursday that the administration’s “U.S. Cyber Trust Mark” program is on track to be released by the end of 2024. […]
President Biden announced new actions today to strengthen U.S. supply chains, including several technology-focused initiatives such as the creation of the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience. […]
The Biden administration today released its National Spectrum Strategy, marking the beginning of a multi-year evaluation of how scarce radio frequency spectrum is being used in the United States by government and private sector users, and how it could be used better in the future to accommodate insatiable demands for more spectrum to accommodate wireless-delivered services of all kinds. […]
To mark this Veterans Day, the White House announced the launch of the new Veteran Scam and Fraud Evasion (VSAFE) campaign and Task Force to help protect veterans and their families from bad actors. […]
The Biden-Harris administration unveiled a new plan on Wednesday that aims to generate contract savings while improving the performance of Federal contracts, including those for common enterprise-wide software licenses. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) sent out a memo earlier this week reminding agency heads of the Biden administration’s goal to increase the percentage of contracting opportunities awarded to Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB) to 13 percent in fiscal year (FY) 2024. […]