Ideas
Software Edits Images Via Human 'Mind Control'
The development has numerous potential applications.
Emerging Tech
Google’s Powerful AI Spotlights a Human Cognitive Glitch: Mistaking Fluent Speech for Fluent Thought
Learning language does not mean artificial intelligence is conscious, according to researchers.
Cybersecurity
Federal Government Gets Serious About Post-Quantum Encryption Protection
A Phase III PQE contractor talks about getting federal quantum protection deployed quickly.
Modernization
TSP officials promise service will improve after a difficult transition to the new recordkeeping system
Staffing at the call center that serves participants of the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program has already increased 66%, with more on the way.
Emerging Tech
New Supercomputers Take Over NOAA’s Weather Forecast Models
The twin supercomputers, developed and operated by General Dynamics Information Technology, are among the 50 fastest supercomputers in the world.
Modernization
VA Enables Login.gov for Three Major Veteran Portals
Officials said the agency plans to add more services later this year, though Login.gov credentials won’t be mandatory until all veterans are transitioned.
Cybersecurity
Congresswoman Promotes Cyber Insurance Amid Shifting Policy Landscape
The jury is still out on how using insurance policies to pay ransoms and re-establish systems after a cyberattack affects critical infrastructure organizations’ individual and collective resilience.
Defense
Air Force looks to HBCUs to lead its first university applied research center
The tactical autonomy-focused center will focus on key areas including human-machine teaming, trust and collaboration between platforms.
Acquisition
Google bets big on government business with new division
Google Public Sector aims to accelerate digital transformation across government.
Cybersecurity
Trade groups seek changes to SEC’s breach disclosure plan
Defense contractors may be subject to conflicting cyber rules of the road if a proposed financial reporting rule takes effect without changes, trade associations say.
Digital Government
Google Bets Big on Government Business with New Division
Google Public Sector aims to accelerate digital transformation across government.
Ideas
Quantum Sensors—Unlike Quantum Computers—Are Already Here
And they’re improving at a rate that demands urgent attention.
Digital Government
Agencies Are Responding to the Supreme Court's Abortion Ruling. Here's How.
Hundreds of thousands of federal employees’ access to in-state reproductive health services disappeared Friday after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.
People
Enforcement of Biden's federal employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate is delayed—again
A federal appeals court will rehear the case this fall in front of its full panel of its judges.
Cybersecurity
Key State Official Warns of ‘Peril’ as US Pursues Cybersecurity Goals at G7
The State Department would oversee $200 billion in aid and financing the administration wants to invest in developing countries, under a new agreement from world leaders that promises a prioritization of cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity
GAO: HHS Needs Improved Data Breach Reporting
Data breaches have increased each year since 2015.
Digital Government
US-UK Privacy Tech Initiative Focuses on Halting Financial Crime
Both countries want to jumpstart development on privacy-enhancing technologies, which depend on data analysis with limited database access.
Ideas
Wrap Up the CHIPS Act
While authorization for legislation to incentivize domestic semiconductor production was passed over a year ago, the funding has yet to be approved.
Defense
New USAF space buyer eyes fixed-price contracts
Frank Calvelli, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration, said "fixed-price contracting is not a bad approach for space things" and could help keep acquisitions on time.
Acquisition