Public comment will open on Tuesday on four proposed rules to update the federal acquisition process.

And, a defense contractor gets hit with a cyber-related False Claims Act suit

And, inside EPA’s AI strategy to ‘pilot everything’

And, IRS’s IT department has shrunk 42% since Trump took office

And, NIH will sunset all of its governmentwide contracts

The agency’s efforts to reduce barriers to innovation, aligned with a 2025 OMB memo, may have introduced more vulnerabilities.

And, DOGE planned to ‘kill off’ living individuals in an SSA database, and now lawmakers want answers

CIA’s chief procurement officer, Effie Frangogiannis

And, NIST’s cyber vulnerability database is plagued by poor planning and duplication

And, ICE sets a $25M boost for iris recognition technology