Former Transportation CIO most proud of creating ‘momentum for change’
Former Transportation CIO most proud of creating ‘momentum for change’
Policy
Tech bills of the week: Cutting federal funding for Flock; Making data centers shoulder their power costs; and more
Lawmakers are continuing to take bipartisan aim at the use of artificial intelligence-powered surveillance systems and at data center development and operations.
Ideas
The Fed's 35-year open data bet is a model for the AI era
COMMENTARY | Half of FRED's friends are now computers. The St. Louis Fed's response offers a playbook for every agency that publishes data.
Artificial Intelligence
Utah AI sandbox launches new health care pilots — with question marks
The state is mulling how the high-profile AI initiative will tackle medical liability concerns, independent third-party analysis and other questions.
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Discover how the Department of the Navy is modernizing financial management and leveraging AI with insights from SAP and Navy leadership.
Artificial Intelligence
CMS hopes to quadruple provider suspensions over next six months, official says
A new exclusion authority is the Trump administration’s latest step in a technology-enabled drive to restrict fraud, waste and abuse.
Artificial Intelligence
Everybody hated Socrates
A neuroscientist built a model that scores zero on every benchmark. It made more of its users smarter than anything else she tested.
Artificial Intelligence
AI offers Secret Service unique mission enhancements, official says
Threats against the Secret Service’s full-time protectees are up over 40% since last year. The service’s CIO and CAIO Chris Kraft said AI “can help us as we investigate those threats, monitor those threats [and] bring together correlations between seemingly disparate information.”
Artificial Intelligence
Transportation turns to AI to trace research grant recipients’ links to foreign adversaries
Neil Chaudhry, senior advisor for AI at Transportation, says the agency has worked with its partners to create “some really robust AI tools” to analyze the recipients of its research grants.
Cybersecurity
US moves to staff leaders for industry-partnered offensive cyber program
The Trump administration is laying groundwork to enlist companies against foreign cybercriminals, but payment arrangements and protections for participating firms remain unresolved.
Artificial Intelligence
OPM revamps online pay tables, spearheads AI adoption across federal workforce
The agency's CIO Adam Starr described the pay table refresh as part of a broader plan to “make every part of the federal experience tech-first."
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Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI bugging case highlights AI’s insider threat problem
Researchers say the alleged recording attempt shows why AI companies need tighter controls on employee access to sensitive information.
Artificial Intelligence
House Democrats seek watchdog review of AI-powered air traffic control systems
The inclusion of AI capabilities has “rightfully raised serious questions about its reliability and safety benefits,” House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Democrats wrote in a letter to GAO.
Cybersecurity
Officials see gaps in election communications as AI makes foreign influence easier
Sources describe weakening cooperation between the federal government and state and industry partners ahead of the midterms, as AI gives foreign operatives cheaper ways to produce and spread deceptive messages.
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Cybersecurity
Top Pentagon zero trust official to retire from government this week
Randy Resnick has spent nearly 40 years in federal service and is expected to continue working at a software company as a chief technology officer for government.
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Modernization
Top Dems press VA for answers on $17B EHR modernization contract boost
The ranking members of the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees said VA’s “citation of ‘unanticipated complexities’ as the rationale for nearly tripling the original contract remains unexplained.”
Cybersecurity
FBI disrupts North Korean ‘laptop farm’ used to infiltrate US companies
Agents seized nearly 190 laptops across Texas in a crackdown on fraudulent remote workers whose earnings help fund Pyongyang’s weapons programs.
Digital Government
Half of workers potentially eligible for federal disability benefits don’t apply, survey finds
Technology can help the half of Americans who do apply, but education efforts are needed for the half that don’t, a lawyer said.
Ideas
Building the foundation for autonomous operations
COMMENTARY | In an autonomous enterprise, people and intelligent agents work together inside connected processes.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity executive who helped hacking victims arrested on federal extortion charges
Ed Dubrovsky’s arrest may be linked to the FBI’s investigation into ShinyHunters. He has built a career advising organizations on cyberattacks and ransom demands.
Policy
Tech bills of the week: Transparency in agency AI use; Creating a CISA AI task force; and more
Although Congress is in recess, lawmakers in the House and Senate still rolled out proposals over the past week looking to promote clarity around the use of — and potential harms posed by — AI tools.
