The agency is playing catchup on recovering the costs taken to launch its electronic Consent Based Social Security Number Verification service.

The watchdog revealed “varying levels of content and detail” in reports on 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act standards.

In a report and congressional testimony from the government watchdog, 20 unresolved defects in the department’s system were highlighted.

Much of that work centers on cloud service level agreements, according to the watchdog.

The watchdog said 13 mandates for six federal agencies on AI personnel and management were fully implemented by the March deadline.

The former top innovator at the Government Accountability Office, Taka Ariga, is hopeful that the unit will remain “vanguard of experimentation and exploration” for Congress and others.

The Office of Science and Technology Policy disagreed with the watchdog’s recommendation that it should inform agencies about their status as implementing agencies with regulatory authority.

The watchdog offered a new assessment of the agency’s work to establish an active postmarket surveillance system to monitor the safety and efficacy of medical devices.

The Secret Service is typically mum about the technology it deploys to protect presidents, but plenty is publicly disclosed.

Sen. Ernst, ranking member of the chamber’s Small Business Committee, has been critical of the agency’s privacy standards around personally identifiable information.