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GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan delivers a speech during AITalks on April 18, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Scoop News Group photo)

GSA appoints new members to FedRAMP advisory committee

The Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee will also have a new chair effective next week.

May 8, 2024 By Caroline Nihill

Patent and Trademark Office CIO Jamie Holcombe speaks on a panel at the Google Public Sector Forum. (FedScoop)

USPTO CIO says AI adoption is held back by government culture and bureaucracy

USPTO CIO Jamie Holcombe criticizes federal government's approach to innovation and long-term modernization, saying “everything we do in the government is pretty stupid.”

Oct 17, 2023 By Nihal Krishan

A Zipline drone delivering a supply of blood. (Zipline photo)

Experts say US rules for testing commercial drone technology aren’t permissive enough

UAS experts warn that the U.S.'s regulatory regime could be stifling innovation.

Mar 31, 2023 By Nihal Krishan

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies before the Senate Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs during a hearing at the US Capitol on December 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Justice Department identifies disrupting ransomware and cyberattacks as key objective in new strategic plan

Th department intends to beef up its cybersecurity technological capabilities.

Jul 5, 2022 By Nihal Krishan

code, data, artificial intelligence, algorithm — (Getty Images)

DOD’s artificial intelligence center wants pitches from industry this fall

The JAIC is particularly interested in autonomous cyberdefense; user activity monitoring and attribution; social media and dark web analysis; DevOps; network mapping; and data engineering.

Jul 5, 2019 By Jackson Barnett

Macdill AF Base — A hangar at MacDill Air Force Base, home of SOCOM’s CIO Office. (Air Force photo)

USSOCOM CIO moves to private sector

John Wilcox, former USSOCOM CIO, has moved to By Light, a defense contractor.

Jun 4, 2019 By Jackson Barnett

Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States Michael Kratsios introduces NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at the “Face to Face with Our Future: A Day with Young Leaders” event, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

White House continues push for public-private collaboration on AI

The Trump administration wants to leverage the public, private and academic sectors to ensure the U.S. has the lead in artificial intelligence.

Jul 10, 2018 By Carten Cordell

Karinda Washington and Russell Deyo, from DHS, at the Exemplar launch. Photo by INSA.

DHS cyber warriors will train with private sector

A handful of personnel from the Department of Homeland Security working in cybersecurity, engineering and other scientific and technical fields will get free training from the private…

Jun 27, 2016

NIST wants more feedback on cybersecurity framework

In an request for information posted Thursday to the Federal Register, NIST wants to learn how organizations are sharing the framework’s best practices, what parts of the…

Dec 10, 2015

Private companies ♥ U.S. government cloud security controls

A funny thing happened as the federal government embraced the cloud: the rest of the world has turned to a number of U.S. government standards in order…

Oct 12, 2015