DOGE duo ducked security rules during Treasury stint, GAO finds
And, OMB data shows that disclosed government AI use cases increased by 70% in 2025, with NASA fueling a big chunk of the rise.
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Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., speaks to reporters following in front of the House Oversight Committee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 18, 2026. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images) Modernization House bill wants CIOs, agency heads to hit the gas on legacy IT phase-outs
The bipartisan Legacy IT Reduction Act would require CIOs to inventory legacy systems and agency heads to plan for hastened retirements, updates or modernization.
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An exterior of one of two Department of Treasury Bureau of Fiscal Services on Feb. 12, 2025 in Parkersburg, W.Va. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) Data DOGE duo ducked security rules during Treasury stint, GAO finds
The congressional watchdog laid some blame for DOGE’s shoddy data practices on Treasury for not implementing cyber controls on payment systems.
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The Government Accountability Office in D.C. (Tajha Chappellet-Lanier) AI Agencies fall short on documenting AI acquisition best practices, GAO says
A new report from the congressional watchdog found that agencies are not “systematically collecting lessons learned from AI acquisitions.”
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Emerging Tech Takeaways from the new U.S. national cyber strategy
Elastic’s Mike Nichols joins the podcast to discuss that and more.
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A sign marks the location of the Office of Personnel Management headquarters building on Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images) Workforce OPM isn’t using its own dashboard for cyber workforce planning
A new GAO report finds minimal use of a dashboard OPM launched in 2023 to help agencies do data-driven planning for cyber workforce deployment and requirements.
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(Getty Images) Data OMB’s AI guidance falls short on privacy, watchdog says
The Government Accountability Office and a panel of experts ID’d eight privacy-related challenges that AI presents that aren’t totally accounted for in OMB guidance to agencies.
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The James Forrestal Building in Washington D.C. is home to the Department of Energy and one of the sites for NNSA. AI Nuclear agency’s top IT official says AI gains will lead to workforce cuts
During an event Thursday, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s CIO said he wants to spend money as efficiently as possible.
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The Internal Revenue Service building on Feb. 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Annabelle Gordon for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Workforce IRS cuts may mean agency’s ‘AI efforts will not succeed,’ GAO says
The tax agency has a growing use case inventory and plans to “use more AI in the future,” but the watchdog found major “skills gaps” that threaten the IRS’s ability to reap the technology’s benefits.
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Orice Williams Brown of the Government Accountability Office is pictured in Washington D.C., on Oct. 20, 2016. (Photo by John McDonnell / The Washington Post via Getty Images) Workforce GAO’s IT division has been ‘hard hit’ by departures
The acting comptroller general told lawmakers that the watchdog’s IT unit has “lost a fair number of resources” following funding fights and a wave of retirements.