‘A lot to fix’: VA needs an IT program management office, CIO nominee says
Gary Shatswell, nominee to be the VA's CIO, told a Senate panel he is an industry-trained problem solver and, if confirmed, would make instituting a PMO one…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Bipartisan ‘Great American AI Act’ draft proposes new federal AI governance framework
The discussion draft would authorize $100 million per fiscal year for a Center for AI Standards and Innovation and calls for oversight in government AI adoption.
Treasury’s Bessent backs Trump’s AI order, voluntary cyber callout
The secretary told Sen. Mark Warner that the executive order “strikes a very good balance between innovation and safety,” and disputed that the EO was scaled back…
The CIA wants to turbocharge commercial tech buying with a new acquisition framework
CIA’s chief procurement officer, Effie Frangogiannis
VA seeks information on new AI interface and API for workforce
The agency will potentially expand its artificial intelligence toolkit to help its workforce in assistive, collaborative and agentic tasks.
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A federal AI consortium reemerges with a new name, scope and call for members
And, NIST’s cyber vulnerability database is plagued by poor planning and duplication
NIST AI consortium reemerges with new name, scope and call for members
The change comes after the Department of Commerce-based agency rebranded its AI Safety Institute as the Center for AI Standards and Innovation last year.
As government scales AI, data strategy will define success
The major challenge facing federal agencies is data readiness, rather than model access.
Tech Force touts 200 hires
And, ICE sets a $25M boost for iris recognition technology
OMB update federal cyber logging tactics
And, Anthropic’s Mythos finds more than 10,000 software flaws in first month.
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