The chatbot comes as an expansion of the Office of Personnel Management’s work to modernize access to public federal workforce data. Integration with America.gov is planned.

And, the VA partners with CLEAR for identity verification on its website.

The long-awaited clause was issued as a regulation deviation last week, and while some previous commenters are relieved, they still have worries about it in practice.

Longtime GSA CIO David Shive discusses this and more.

Four new investments at the departments of State, Agriculture and Transportation aim to speed up permitting and integrate artificial intelligence into the agency’s tech portfolio.

And, Nancy Mace’s bill to scrap education requirements in federal contracting jobs heads to the president’s desk.

Ahead of formal rulemaking, the General Services Administration issued an artificial intelligence acquisition regulation deviation that can be used immediately, incorporating some public comments.

And, ICE looks to build an ‘agentic software factory’

The DHS unit is conducting market research to see how vendors could potentially help add AI agents to development workflows and expand its existing STELLA platform.

Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist Denice Ross joins the podcast