The legislation would rearrange and refocus the council in hopes of better defending against technological threats to the federal supply chain from adversaries.

The AI Act of 2024 from Sens. Warner and Tillis calls on NIST and CISA to update databases and NSA to launch an AI security center.

Called the "Safe Innovation Framework for AI Policy," Schumer's plan outlines ways to "protect, expand, and harness AI’s potential” as Congress pursues legislation.

The PRICE Act aims to increase small business participation in contracting.

Students studying AI would receive scholarships upon agreeing to work in the public sector to start.

A notorious backlog would get some tech solutions, and the intelligence community would have more flexibility with its workforce under the House-passed intelligence authorization bill.

Sens. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, want the Pentagon to "promote and maintain digital engineering as a core competency of the Armed Forces."

The intent is not only to help fill specific gaps in the workforce, but also to help agencies recruit and retain employees who otherwise might choose Silicon…

Sen. Dianne Feinstein said the bill was meant to curb increasing attempts of cyber-espionage by foreign nations.

The legislation also calls to limit department senior executive service CIO roles to just five starting in 2021.