State Department is gearing up to ‘roll out agentic AI’
CIO Kelly Fletcher sees a future with agency consolidation and simplification, paired with AI agents that “make it easy for people to do their job” and “reduce administrative friction.”
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State Department CIO Kelly Fletcher, left, speaks during AI Talks in Washington, D.C., on April 18, 2024, while State CAIO Matthew Graviss looks on. (Scoop News Group photo) AI -
A Department Of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection sign is displayed at the CBP headquarters on May 18, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images) AI CBP to strengthen ‘tactical targeting,’ ‘counter-network analysis’ with Clearview AI
The one-year base contract will provide access to a database of billions of publicly available images, according to documents posted this week.
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The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building on Dec. 19, 2025 in Washington, D.C.(Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) AI DOJ ramps up AI for legal work, crime predictions, surveillance, inventory shows
The agency’s 31% year-over-year surge in AI use cases includes work with predictive models and surveillance technologies that sparked concern from privacy and technology safety advocates.
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Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks during the Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration hearing at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 10, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) Policy Senate takes up push to modernize environmental permitting process
The bipartisan legislation directs agencies to standardize data systems and use cloud-based platforms to digitize federal permitting. A companion bill already passed the House.
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A humanoid robot learns to organize shelves at the data collection training ground for humanoid robots in Qingdao, Shandong, China, on January 12, 2026. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Policy House lawmakers lay groundwork to create robotics commission
The potential independent, temporary commission is part of a bipartisan effort meant to better inform future legislation, the Trump administration and relevant federal agencies.
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Jeffrey Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration, participates in a fireside chat with Jerry McGinn, the Center for the Industrial Base at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Feb. 4, 2026. (Scoop News Group photo by Miranda Nazzaro) Acquisition GSA procurement leader says ‘community readiness’ poses challenge to acquisition overhaul
It follows a 30% reduction in the acquisition workforce at the General Services Administration over the past year.
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(Getty Images) AI Federal officials tap open-source standard to improve GenAI access to public data
Officials are using a standard known as “Model Context Protocol” to ensure that queries to third-party AI chatbots like ChatGPT are informed by public data.
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An entrance to the James Forrestal Building, the headquarters of the Department of Energy, in Washington, DC on June 22, 2022. AI Energy Department offloads some emergency operations to AI
The technology was “used in place of a large team that would be required for coding and development of emergency services facilitation,” according to DOE’s AI inventory.
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AI As Trump targets fraud, the government’s identity focus reaches a new peak
Jordan Burris joins the Daily Scoop to discuss.
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Apple iPhone screen with AI app applications, including Grok, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, Copilot and Claude. AI An Energy Department-run national lab is piloting xAI’s Grok
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, plus HHS, are using the controversial chatbot to create documents and complete general research, AI use case inventories show.