OSC’s Taylor Jordan told House lawmakers “the question is not should we provide [space situational awareness] data, it's how do we do that as a federal government.”

Schedule acceleration was among the questions the weather agency posed during its first industry day for its Radar Next program.

While the agency’s hurricane-piercing airplanes are already on track to be replaced, the bill would authorize $2.5 billion to expand the size of a new fleet.

As hurricane season begins, the weather agency is seeing promise in drones and other emerging plane-deployed technologies.

While the Census Bureau has completed some management practices, its schedule for IT modernization plans related to the 2030 Census needs improvement.

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.

The legislation would create a testbed program, prize competition, and build upon recommendations from an AI advisory body.

The potential independent, temporary commission is part of a bipartisan effort meant to better inform future legislation, the Trump administration and relevant federal agencies.

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.

Congressional appropriators tossed aside the Trump administration’s requested cuts at NOAA, NIST, NSF and NASA in fiscal year 2026 funding bills released Monday.