The legislation from Sens. Warner and Hawley tasks the Labor Department with delivering a quarterly report on agency and private-sector layoffs linked to AI.

Scott Bessent told lawmakers he has no knowledge of DOGE access to the tax agency’s Integrated Data Retrieval System.

Sen. Mark Warner urged OPM’s acting director to ensure identity protection services continue for the more than 21 million individuals affected by the 2015 breach.

The new AI Assurance and Discovery Lab in McLean, Virginia, is aimed at helping federal agencies test and evaluate systems that use AI.

Experts say the government would benefit from an analytic capability that flags unwanted technology transfers in real time.

The legislation aims to rid potentially compromised equipment from networks in Central and Eastern Europe.

Agencies' have previously struggled to find the right tech startups to implement zero-trust security.

Administrators must consider increasing staffing levels, adjusting project selection criteria and reconsidering repayment terms for agencies, according to their letter.

A new bill would create a Technology Partnership Office within the State Department to pursue policy, research and investment collaboration among democratic countries.

CISA's cyber-protection teams can only do so much without enhanced threat-hunting authority — and with a vacancy in leadership looming large, lawmakers said.