Cybersecurity
New tech, personnel will help CISA with coming rush of cyber incident reports
CISA said “an automated mechanism” could help it better process and review a coming deluge of new cyber incident reports but could not be accounted for in its current budget.
Artificial Intelligence
Human performance tech with AI assists athletes in the 2024 DOD warrior games
This was the first time that wearable technology and artificial intelligence also took the field to assist some of the competitors.
Modernization
Senators take another crack at solving over-classification
The bipartisan Classification Reform for Transparency Act would establish a new task force to narrow the criteria for classifying documents and make it harder for agencies to exempt records from automatic declassification.
Artificial Intelligence
NTIA advocates open AI model weights in report to White House
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued a report to the White House recommending open-source AI foundation model weights with sufficient risk mitigation frameworks.
Digital Government
Senate Democrats push an accessibility refresh
A new bill would revamp the decades old law requiring the government be accessible online, where many agencies are still falling short
Acquisition
Treasury’s funding request for IRS cloud tech far outpaces other civilian agencies, report says
Treasury’s request is the largest out of a combined federal civilian total of almost $9 billion for cloud-related programs in their fiscal year 2025 IT budget requests.
Digital Government
Malicious foreign actors exploit US entities to push disinformation, IC warns
Communications and marketing firms can be pulled in as unwitting collaborators, the intelligence officials noted in a Monday call.
Ideas
Future-proofing government data
COMMENTARY: As AI becomes increasingly integrated into governmental operations, the cost of neglecting data readiness could be catastrophic.
Emerging Tech
White House roadmap looks to guide emerging tech standardization
The Biden administration unveiled a to-do list for federal agencies developing standards for cutting-edge technologies, focusing on external communications.
Modernization
OMB rewrites cloud buying rulebook
The FedRAMP program received its first major update in more than a decade
Ideas
Why unified observability is key to better UX
COMMENTARY: The technology also helps shed light on blind spots introduced by zero trust cybersecurity strategies.
People
A decade of data at Transportation
Over 10 years leading data management at the Department of Transportation, Dan Morgan has championed the power of open data and cross-agency collaboration.
Cybersecurity
NIST may not resolve vulnerability database backlog until early 2025, analysis shows
A new dashboard underscores the severity of the logjam that’s plagued the agency since February.
People
Gen Z is underrepresented in the federal workforce. Here’s how some experts would fix that
People younger than 30 represent 7% of the full-time civil service despite being 20% of the overall U.S. labor force.
Artificial Intelligence
Biden to receive AI national security memo outlining forbidden uses, opportunities for innovation
The memorandum expected to be delivered Friday to President Joe Biden will build upon existing artificial intelligence guidance while highlighting workforce needs and prohibited use scenarios.
Cybersecurity
Summer-only sessions helped blunt CrowdStrike outage impact on US schools
K-12 school districts across the country were impacted in last week’s CrowdStrike-based IT outage, a person familiar says. The effects would have been much worse if school was in session.
Artificial Intelligence
FCC proposes requiring advertisers to disclose AI in political ads on radio, TV
The proposal advanced over the opposition of its Republican commissioners, who warned that the measure risks interfering with the Federal Election Commission’s efforts to regulate AI-generated content in political ads.
Policy
HHS reorg seeks to streamline tech, cyber policy
A new assistant secretary post will consolidate management of technology, data, AI and health IT.
Acquisition
ServiceNow parts with president and public sector head after internal probe
The software vendor indicated it violated company policy in the hiring of former Army CIO Raj Iyer on the heels of a large contract award.
Cybersecurity