The executive order focuses on collaboration with industry, advancing economic competitiveness, and building next-generation data centers to support AI.

Installing a CAIO, CTO and CDO comes after a reshuffle of the agency’s technology and cyber work in July.

The new ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee tells FedScoop that he’ll be prioritizing modernization and emerging tech in the upcoming session.

The so-called AI diffusion rule from Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security faced swift pushback from industry.

OSTP’s Arati Prabhakar reiterated her concerns about federal R&D funding and innovation as Republicans prepare to take full control of Washington.

The document functions as a victory lap for AI accomplishments reached under Secretary Mayorkas, who leaves the position this month.

The effort, announced in 2022, was mentioned recently in the agency’s AI inventory.

The nation can do better at forecasting AI-driven job and skill changes, including with a data-focused nonprofit that examines the technology’s impact.

The legislation from Democratic Sens. Welch and Luján would require NIST to come up with a “trustworthy-by-design framework” for agencies to follow.

The two selections are veterans of the previous Trump administration.