Artificial Intelligence
GenAI.mil saw more than 2 million users in one week, top DOD official says
Defense Department Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Cameron Stanley also said that “unilateral disarmament is the wrong approach” when it comes to calls for a slowdown in AI development.
Emerging Tech
When cell service disappears, a rescue beacon developed by NASA can summon help from space
NASA-developed technology, now part of a federal and international satellite search-and-rescue network, can locate people in trouble far beyond the reach of ordinary communications.
Emerging Tech
Flock camera systems receive bipartisan scrutiny from senators
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., criticized makers of automatic license plate readers for relying on agency customers to self-police the systems for instances of wrongdoing.
Artificial Intelligence
Veterans Affairs previews timeline for enterprise AI services competition
A final solicitation for the potential three-year contract is just around the corner and will task the winner with rolling out artificial intelligence capabilities to 540,000 users.
Artificial Intelligence
'Super Intelligence': the president’s new term for AI, explained
Trump is attempting to rebrand AI with an existing term of art.
Emerging Tech
DHS exploring new biosurveillance capabilities as biological threats evolve, officials say
DHS Science and Technology Directorate officials said emerging technologies are forcing the agency to rethink how it detects biological agents.
Digital Government
Login.gov is now accepting mobile driver’s licenses
The feature builds on the federal government’s effort to mandate that agencies use the digital identity verification platform.
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Cybersecurity
ShinyHunters claims FBI data theft, demands bureau retract cyber warning
The hacking group says it obtained sensitive employee and applicant records. The full scope of the claimed breach remains unclear.
Policy
Congress — not the president — should appoint the next GAO head, bipartisan coalition argues
The organizations from across the political spectrum contended that former Comptroller General Gene Dodaro’s retirement last year provides an opportunity for lawmakers to overhaul the nomination process.
Artificial Intelligence
Abridge selected for VA ambient AI enterprise contract
The department plans to expand the technology to select outpatient care providers.
Modernization
Do data centers need a ‘national strategy that puts communities first’?
The House passed a bill to mandate that state regulators have a strategy to have large consumers pay for their own power. But plenty of work lies ahead.
Artificial Intelligence
Trump floats creating an ‘AI Force’
President Donald Trump said the AI Force would be analogous with the Space Force, a military service branch created during his first term to protect U.S. space interests.
Acquisition
DOJ signals interest in piloting AI legal assistant
The pilot would assess whether AI can execute multi-step legal tasks without step-by-step attorney prompting.
Artificial Intelligence
DC-area airports first to deploy AI tool for airspace management
The SMART tool uses AI to crunch 200 different streams of flight data “to predict traffic flows and identify potential conflicts before they occur,” according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Acquisition
FAR Overhaul targets commercial buying and negotiations in newest rewrite
Parts 12 and 15 have revisions ready for industry to read, while two other parts of the Federal Acquisition Regulation are deleted entirely in a push to increase competition.
Artificial Intelligence
Tech bills of the week: Monitoring AI’s use under Section 702; Preventing abuse of Flock plate readers; and more
Lawmakers introduced several measures this week looking to rein in some of the potential abuses and dangers of using AI, as well as a proposal that looks to leverage AI for pediatric cancer research and treatment.
People
NASA employees: EEOC committed ‘flagrant distortions’ to decertify class complaint
EEOC officials touted a long-running discrimination case against NASA as an example why federal sector cases were in need of reform. The employees who brought the case said commissioners railroaded them.
Ideas
FAFSA's turnaround wasn't a miracle. That's the point.
COMMENTARY | Paying for their education should not depend on whether a system failed badly enough to get fixed in the first place.
Defense
Space Force braces for stalled progress amid lack of full funding
Fiscal 2027 program starts are already on hold until December.
Ideas