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Lindsey Wilkinson

Lindsey Wilkinson is a reporter for FedScoop in Washington, D.C., covering government IT with a focus on DHS, DOT, DOE and several other agencies. Before joining Scoop News Group, Lindsey closely covered the rise of generative AI in enterprises, exploring the evolution of AI governance and risk mitigation efforts. She has had bylines at CIO Dive, Homeland Security Today, The Crimson White and Alice magazine.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents use their phones near protestors at a demonstration in Newark, New Jersey May 7, 2025, outside Delaney Hall, a newly converted immigrant detention centre. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)

White House pressing ICE for updates on wearable identity verification technology

Tech

The lobby of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission headquarters in Rockville, Maryland on March 12, 2026. (Photo by Lindsey Wilkinson/FedScoop)

NRC efficiency plan to reuse DOE, DOD data met with skepticism

Data

Police officers stand guard in front of an Eastern Airlines plane carrying Venezuelan migrants repatriated from the US after landing at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, on Dec. 3, 2025. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP via Getty Images)

Lawmakers sound alarm on ICE ‘ghost flights,’ missing aviation data

Data

iOS 26 locked screen is seen displayed on a phone screen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on Sept. 17, 2025. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

DHS units to re-up contract with controversial mobile device data extractor

Tech

The General Services Administration (GSA) Headquarters building. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

GSA touts federal AI adoption despite unanswered ROI questions

AI

DHS watchdog flags lagging mobile device security, management

Cyber

ATC-controller at radar screen with microphone and control strips in visual-control-room with airport terminal view through windows at night. (Photo by: aviation-images.com/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Two FAA partners ramp up hiring, preparations for ATC overhaul

Modernization

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

AI

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)

Interior still grapples with probate backlog even with AI assistance

Modernization