After more than six years at USPTO, Holcombe departed the agency Wednesday and now joins a Maryland-based, AI-focused firm to scale its tech across government.
Attendees walk through an expo hall at AWS re:Invent 2023, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on November 28, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors’ “Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference” at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)
As adversaries leverage AI to mimic user behavior, agencies must adopt dynamic identity architectures to verify every interaction and safeguard critical missions continuously.