Almost a year after the launch of the GSA’s signature tech-buying initiative, agency IT leaders still support cheaper, streamlined products. But a debate continues over the program’s…
WASHINGTON – APRIL 11: Department Of Health and Human Services, Hubert H. Humphrey Building on April 11, 2015 in Washington, D.C. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
An office charged with research and evaluation for Administration for Children and Families programs faces structural changes. A broad coalition warns its work could be “destroyed.”
The Health and Human Services seal on a door of the office building in downtown Washington DC on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Robb Hill for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The department again reported few uses slated for increased risk management practices, and demoted several systems it previously determined could have significant impact on the public.
Michael Duffy, acting federal chief information security officer at Office of Management and Budget, speaks at CyberTalks Feb. 19, 2026. (James Kim/EPNAC)
Michael Duffy, acting federal chief information security officer, called the present technology moment “pivotal” and detailed steps leaders are taking to address it.
He will join GSA as acting director of Technology Transformation Services, taking over for Thomas Shedd, and serve as a senior advisor to Edward Forst.
The department's 2025 tally of AI uses continues a trend of dramatic annual increases, adding deployments for unaccompanied minors data as well as agentic AI uses.
An organizational flag flies outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 as demonstrators gather to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)
While the Trump administration labels the change as an “accountability” measure, worker advocates blasted the rule as a ploy to make nonpartisan employees easier to fire and…
Jeffrey Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration, participates in a fireside chat with Jerry McGinn, the Center for the Industrial Base at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Feb. 4, 2026. (Scoop News Group photo by Miranda Nazzaro)