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This illustration picture shows the ChatGPT logo displayed on a smartphone in Washington, DC, on March 15, 2023. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

OpenAI offers year of free ChatGPT to service members, veterans

The company said its goal is to provide veterans reentering civilian life with support for things like writing a resume or job interview prep.

By Madison Alder

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 18: The reflection the flag of the U.S. Department of Energy is seen on its building on March 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Trump administration announced on Monday it is releasing the second loan disbursement worth $56.7 million to Holtec International to restart the Palisades Nuclear Plant. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Dawn Zimmer takes over as permanent Energy CIO

Workforce

By Madison Alder

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem participates in a briefing at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers on Nov. 7, 2025, in North Charleston, S.C. (Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)

DHS ditched software that archived officials’ electronic messages

Federal

By Matt Bracken

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Education Department violated workers’ rights with partisan email replies, judge rules

By Matt Bracken
USDA nominee for rural development eyes cyber, IT assists

By Matt Bracken
Agency that provides budget data to Congress hit with security incident

By Tim Starks
‘Fully automated’ federal retirement feasible in next six months, OPM director says

By Madison Alder
With each cloud outage, calls for government action grow louder

By Derek B. Johnson Miranda Nazzaro

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UCLA students, researchers and demonstrators rally during a “Kill the Cuts” protest against the Trump administration’s funding cuts on research, health and higher education in Los Angeles on April 8, 2025. (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

If you are reading this online, you can thank universities

The administration should be doubling down on funding for research. Federal cuts do nothing but impede science and tech breakthroughs.

By Julio Frenk

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., points to quotes from Meta employees while presiding over a hearing about artificial intelligence generative models training on copyrighted works in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 16, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Bipartisan Senate bill calls for agencies to report AI-related job cuts

The legislation from Sens. Warner and Hawley tasks the Labor Department with delivering a quarterly report on agency and private-sector layoffs linked to AI.

By Matt Bracken

The US Department of Energy building is seen in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2019. (Photo by Alastair Pike / AFP) (Photo by ALASTAIR PIKE/AFP via Getty Images)

DOE announces $625 million to continue quantum research centers

All five National Quantum Information Science Research Centers were renewed for five more years.

By Madison Alder

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus. Because Hubble was tracking the comet moving along a hyperbolic trajectory, the stationary background stars are streaked in the exposure. [Credit — Image: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)]

Federal government grapples with questions about interstellar comet amid shutdown

NASA experts are set to connect with at least one congressional lawmaker about the mysterious object this week.

By Brandi Vincent

CFPB’s cybersecurity program ‘not effective’ after staff cuts, watchdog says

By Matt Bracken

OPM plans to give CyberCorps members more time to find jobs after shutdown ends

By Tim Starks

VA calls for industry input on expanding cloud services provider portfolio

By Miranda Nazzaro

DHS seeks vast expansion of biometrics collection for immigration benefits

By Matt Bracken

The self-inflicted wounds of tech monoculture

By Michael Garland

Insights

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AI bridges data-sharing gaps for faster disaster response

By Scoop News Group

A smarter path to federal storage modernization

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From proof of concept to powerhouse: Why federal agencies need AI factories

By Peter Guerra

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Why agencies are embracing a private cloud model for mission success

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Videos

CMMC compliance made practical: A data-first path forward

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From patchwork to unified security: Rethinking state cyber strategies

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How specialized integrators are helping agencies modernize faster

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Beyond perimeters: Securing data for the zero-trust era

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Podcasts

The Congressional Budget Office hit by a security incident

By FedScoop Staff

Calls for government action grow louder amid recent cloud outages

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OPM expects a ‘fully automated’ federal retirement system in the next six months

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Ahead of the World Cup and Olympics, DHS offers grants for counter-drone tech

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An exterior view of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Washington D.C., on Jan. 5, 2023. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Court documents reveal ICE request for nearly 1.3 million taxpayer records

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Cyber scholarship-for-service students say government has pulled rug on them, potentially burdening them with debt

President Donald Trump looks on during a cabinet meeting in the White House on March 24, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

White House registers ‘techforce.gov’ domain

A view of the Department of Justice headquarters on April 30, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

How DOJ attorneys and EPA engineers secured a record Clean Air Act penalty

BEIJING, CHINA – AUGUST 24: In this photo illustration, the logo of Grok is displayed on a smartphone screen with the xAI logo in the background on August 24, 2025 in Beijing, China. Elon Musk’s xAI has open-sourced its Grok 2.5 model and plans to do the same for Grok 3 in the next 6 months. (Photo illustration by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

Advocacy groups escalate fight over Grok in government after OneGov deal

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., speaks onstage at the Puck Power Breakfast on Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Puck)

GOP senator: Legal immigration is ‘critical’ to US success in AI race

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In the age of DOGE, new venture aims war chest at government efficacy

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Federal judge extends halt to shutdown-related terminations

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the Live Keynote Pregame during the Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 28, 2025. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Nvidia, Oracle to build Energy Department’s largest AI supercomputer

(Handout photo courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Energy reveals plans for two new AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge

The Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building houses the offices of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the Federal Judicial Center, the United States Sentencing Commission, and the Office of the Clerk of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons / D Ramey Logan)

Interim AI guidance for US courts aims for experimentation with guardrails

A Department Of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection sign is displayed at the CBP headquarters on May 18, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Justice reveals IRS request from CBP amid ICE data-sharing lawsuit

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, attends a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 13, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Use of Perplexity, ChatGPT behind error-ridden orders, federal judges say

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