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Caroline Nihill

Caroline Nihill is a reporter for FedScoop in Washington, D.C., covering federal IT. Her reporting has included the tracking of artificial intelligence governance from the White House and Congress, as well as modernization efforts across the federal government. Caroline was previously an editorial fellow for Scoop News Group, writing for FedScoop, StateScoop, CyberScoop, EdScoop and DefenseScoop. She earned her bachelor’s in media and journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after transferring from the University of Mississippi.

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Updated NIST cybersecurity framework adds core function, focuses on supply chain risk management

Cyber

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As House task force work begins, Rep. Bonamici is ‘very worried’ about AI — ‘and we all should be’

AI

Director of U.S. Office of Personnel Management Kiran Ahuja speaks during a roundtable with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, and federal workers on Oct. 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images).

AI integration, data-driven decisions should be among top workforce priorities for agencies, OPM says

Workforce

Arati Prabhakar attends the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference at The Beverly Hilton on May 01, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images)

Congress presses White House on timeline for research security requirement

Policy

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 7: (L-R) House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) arrive for a bipartisan candlelight vigil with members of Congress to commemorate one month since the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7, at the U.S. Capitol November 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. In addition to the roughly 1,400 people killed in the October 7 attack, Hamas is still holding around 240 hostages in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that there will be no ceasefire in the Gaza Strip until all of the hostages held by Hamas are released. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

House leaders announce new, bipartisan AI task force

Policy

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NITRD seeks spectrum R&D information on behalf of White House

Emerging Tech

Department of Justice, DOJ — (Shane T. McCoy / U.S. Marshals / Flickr)

Department of Justice announces new AI initiative

AI

USPTO Headquarters, Alexandria, VA — The interior of the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2019. (Antony-22 / Wikimedia Commons)

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announces $70 million contract for AI patent search tool

Modernization

President Joe Biden speaks about artificial intelligence (AI), in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 21, 2023. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

OMB launches searchable tool covering federal programs

Policy