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Department of the Interior

President Joe Biden discusses AI and other topics during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Oct. 2, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden issues last-minute order to advance AI infrastructure in US

The executive order focuses on collaboration with industry, advancing economic competitiveness, and building next-generation data centers to support AI.
Image shows the midwest and northeastern part of the U.S. and part of Canada covered by smoke from Canadian fires.
A June 2023 image from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-16 satellite shows smoke from wildfires in Canada over the midwest and northeastern regions of the U.S. GOES-16 was the first of four geostationary weather satellites in the GOES-R series. (Image via NOAA)

NOAA teams up with Agriculture, Interior on satellite-powered wildfire detection

Interior and the Forest Service will work with NOAA to use data from a fleet of weather satellites to improve the speed and accuracy of wildfire tracking.
OPM CISO James Saunders, right, and Interior CISO Stan Lowe, left, take part in a panel discussion on zero trust at the Amazon Web Services Innovate Day on May 15, 2024. (Scoop News Group photo)

Agency CISOs aren’t sweating a looming zero trust deadline

Security chiefs at OPM, Interior and USCIS reflect on budgetary and cultural challenges ahead of a Sept. 30 due date to implement zero trust architecture.
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The Interior Department building in Washington. (Tajha Chappellet-Lanier / FedScoop)

Interior awards $1B cloud contract to Peraton

"The Cloud Hosting Solutions (CHS) III acquisition puts DOI bureaus in control of how, when, and where they wish to receive service," Interior said last year.
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