A pair of departures in the federal technology community
Nand Mulchandani leaves the CIA and Winston Beauchamp retires from the Air Force.
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Supreme Court allows federal workforce reductions to move forward; Anthropic makes generative AI widely available at major national lab
Employees at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California will have access to the enterprise version of Claude, Anthropic’s chatbot.
The State Department’s innovation-driven approach to security at the edge
Gharun Lacy, State’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cyber & Technology Security
SSA makes another DOGE switch at CIO; Federal workers at at least one agency have tried to use Deepseek
The agency has selected Aram Moghaddassi as its IT chief, at least the third DOGE-affiliated individual to hold the position during the Trump administration.
DOD CIO solicits industry to inform revamp of ‘cumbersome’ cybersecurity risk framework; Congress seeks ban on government use of foreign adversary AI
The Pentagon CIO is seeking industry feedback on a new construct that will modernize the notoriously burdensome Risk Management Framework.
ICE seeks proprietary data, tech to monitor up to a million people; GSA plans to ‘flip’ the role of tech resellers with OneGov strategy
The DHS component published an RFI seeking the services of a company to scour data sources and help identify “potentially criminal and fraudulent behavior before crime and…
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ICE wants more blockchain analytics tech; Army recruits officers from Meta, OpenAI and Palantir for new detachment
Executives from high-tech firms Meta, OpenAI and Palantir are joining the Army Reserve at the rank of lieutenant colonel to serve in Detachment 201, a new “Executive…
The former leader of 18F speaks out on the digital services team’s ‘deletion’
Lindsay Young, former executive director of 18F, GSA
White House AI czar on race with China: ‘We’ve got to let the private sector cook’
"Washington wants to control things, the bureaucracy wants to control things. That's not a winning formula for technology development," David Sacks said.
Trump admin eyes new model for TMF in 2026; Pentagon begins recruiting its next cohort of disruptive defense acquisition fellows
The administration proposes that agencies “sweep” unused money to send to the TMF instead of calling on Congress for annual appropriations.