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Jeneen Iwugo, right, acting director of CMS’s Center for Program Integrity, and Sarah Harvey, left, director of the GAO’s Science & Technology Assessment division, participate in a panel discussion at a UiPath Public Sector event in Washington, D.C., on May 5, 2026. (Scoop News Group photo)

With AI assist, CMS has ‘longer leash’ to fight fraud now, official says

The acting director of CMS’s Center for Program Integrity said the agency has shifted away from what was previously a “very conservative” approach in pursuing fraud.

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DHS watchdog flags lagging mobile device security, management

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Lynn Martin, group VP and GM of Workday Government, interviews Aneel Bhusri, co-founder, CEO and chair of Workday, at the Workday Federal Forum in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2026. (Scoop News Group photo)

Workday Government has Trump’s HR overhaul in mind with coming agentic AI tool

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How to fix the $5 trillion maze that is federal lending

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Disclosed government AI use increased by 70% in 2025, per OMB

Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., speaks to reporters following in front of the House Oversight Committee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 18, 2026. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Taylor Stockton, the Department of Labor’s chief innovation officer, speaks during a panel discussion at the FedScoop-produced Workday Federal Forum on April 28, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Scoop News Group photo)

Labor Department nears launch of AI workforce hub

Three men in suits speak on stage into a microphone — Todd Brinson, deputy CIO of enterprise operations and shared services at the Department of Energy, speaks on a panel with John Walsh, DOE’s chief learning officer and director of the Office of Workforce Technology, during the Workday Federal Forum on April 28, 2026 in Washington, D.C.

Energy Department eyes AI-enabled self-service features for workforce

IRS CEO Frank Bisignano, center, talks with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., right, in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

House passes two bills to modernize IRS operations

US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum testifies at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on fiscal year 2027 budget requests for the Department of Interior, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on April 22, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

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Federal employees rally in support of their jobs outside of the Kluczynski Federal Building on March 19, 2025, in Chicago. The rally was organized by the National Treasury Employees Union to voice concerns about the mass firing of federal workers by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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GSA announces a fresh cohort of Presidential Innovation Fellows

Sean Plankey, of Pennsylvania, responds to questioning during Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearings to examine his nomination to be Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, of the Department of Homeland Security, in the Dirksen Senate office building, in Washington, DC, on Wednesday July 24, 2025. (Mattie Neretin/CNP/Sipa USA)

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