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Federal officials tap open-source standard to improve GenAI access to public data

Officials are using a standard known as “Model Context Protocol” to ensure that queries to third-party AI chatbots like ChatGPT are informed by public data.

By Madison Alder

An entrance to the James Forrestal Building, the headquarters of the Department of Energy, in Washington, DC on June 22, 2022.

Energy Department offloads some emergency operations to AI

AI

By Lindsey Wilkinson

Members of the American Federation of Government Employees arrive for the “Rally to Save the Civil Service” in Upper Senate Park outside the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Education IT, tech employees lose union protections

Workforce

By Miranda Nazzaro

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An Energy Department-run national lab is piloting xAI’s Grok

By Lindsey Wilkinson
VA taps Zack Schwartz for OIT’s principal deputy assistant secretary

By Miranda Nazzaro
Bipartisan House duo wants Treasury-led push to fight identity theft, fraud

By Matt Bracken
FBI expands AI-powered biometric, facial recognition capabilities, inventory shows

By Lindsey Wilkinson
Federal CIO sees website redesign as key to digital services’ ‘one government’ approach

By Miranda Nazzaro

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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks to reporters following a Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 9, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Senators demand answers from Treasury on IRS’s data-sharing deal with ICE

A letter led by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., hammers Treasury’s “refusal to answer basic questions” about the pact and requests responses from Scott Bessent by Feb. 16.

By Matt Bracken

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 15: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House on July 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to speak at an artificial intelligence and energy summit. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump administration withdraws U.S. from global open government initiative

The General Services Administration cited the organization’s support for “LGBTQ+ advocacy, feminism, and climate alarmism” among its reasons the nation dropped its membership.

By Madison Alder

The front doors of the Internal Revenue Service building are seen in Washington, D.C., on May 18, 2025. (Photo by Wesley Lapointe/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

IRS ramps up AI use amid staff cuts, Treasury inventory shows

The tax agency accounts for nearly half of Treasury’s AI use cases, with a heavy focus on IT and some fraud-fighting tech, but no results for “collections”…

By Matt Bracken

U.S. Senators and former Virginia Governors Mark Warner and Tim Kaine arrive at the Inauguration ceremony for Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger at the Virginia State Capitol on Jan. 17, 2026 in Richmond, Virginia.(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Senate Democrats ask DHS watchdog to rein in agency’s surveillance use

The Virginia lawmakers sent a letter urging the agency’s inspector general to investigate current and upcoming DHS procurements that enable broad data collection and analysis.

By Lindsey Wilkinson

VA watchdog finds data privacy lapses in cancer testing program

By Miranda Nazzaro

ICE drives AI use case growth within Homeland Security

By Lindsey Wilkinson Madison Alder

National Taxpayer Advocate pins some IRS modernization blame on procurement hurdles

By Matt Bracken

Senate Finance leaders press SSA on data practices following DOGE court filing

By Miranda Nazzaro

IRS faces inventory backlog, IT project delays this filing season, watchdog says

By Matt Bracken

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How to fix the government’s phone trust gap

By Jeff Huth

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Why automation is key to modernizing federal IT compliance

By Jason Venner

Rebuilding the digital bedrock of government

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Building a future-ready federal workforce

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Videos

How agencies are closing the gap between systems and service

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How AI is moving from dashboards to decision advantage across the Pentagon

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How Virginia is using enterprise IT modernization to improve constituent services

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Why federal agencies are turning to risk-based identity verification

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Department of Education tech employees lose union protections

By FedScoop Staff

As Trump targets fraud, the government’s identity focus reaches a new peak

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The US wants to push its view of AI cybersecurity standards to the rest of the world

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Trump administration withdraws U.S. from global open government initiative

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The NASA logo is seen at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., on June 7, 2022. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)

NASA has a new acting AI and data chief

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gregory Bovino with his security team while a group of citizens opposed to the country’s immigration policies protested him in Minnesota on Jan. 21, 2026. (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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ICE’s IT shop eyes more automation, embraces AI chatbot

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