Ideas

Stop automating inefficiency and scale AI the right way

COMMENTARY | Four operational realities that agencies must address before AI can deliver mission impact at scale.

People

Want to join NGA? Bring AI skills, agency leader says

Even current National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency workers are getting new training.

Artificial Intelligence

3 priorities for federal CISOs in the agentic era

COMMENTARY | As agentic AI use spreads across government, agencies need to develop security programs, craft playbooks for mitigating incidents and simulate adversarial attacks.

Defense

OpenAI’s ChatGPT to debut on GenAI.mil in ‘early July’

The company is working closely with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office to deliver more model access via GenAI.mil.

Defense

US counterintelligence agency looks to AI to accelerate background checks

A Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency official says advanced AI can cut parts of the vetting process from months to hours.

Exclusive Artificial Intelligence

White House discussions are weighing giving CISA Mythos access

Officials have considered having the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency leverage the advanced AI model that was designed to detect previously undiscovered cyber vulnerabilities to scan federal agencies’ networks.

Exclusive Cybersecurity

Warner proposes overhaul of critical infrastructure cyber plans as AI threats rise

The measure would require CISA to refresh long-outdated sector cybersecurity plans as lawmakers warn that advanced AI tools could accelerate the discovery and exploitation of software flaws.

Artificial Intelligence

An AI opened a coffee shop in Stockholm and started hiring. Chaos ensued.

A new weekly column on the tech reshaping the world from Stockholm to Singapore, including the parts nobody planned for.

Ideas

A practical blueprint for AI transformation in the public sector

COMMENTARY | Stop viewing AI as a standalone miracle and start viewing it as the engine within a larger machine.

Ideas

What DOGE taught us about AI and federal workers

COMMENTARY | Mass layoffs have left thousands of federal workers unemployed and struggling to find their footing as AI accelerates disruption across the public sector.

Artificial Intelligence

How the Library of Congress is using both AI and volunteers to unlock public broadcasting history

The FixIt+ platform uses AI-generated transcripts as a starting point, then relies on volunteers to refine them so historic public media becomes easier to search, study and understand.

Breaking News Artificial Intelligence

White House postpones signing of AI executive order

The order is expected to establish a voluntary framework for the government to view AI models ahead of release.

Policy

Export-Import Bank set to consider framework backing US AI exports

The proposal would use federal export financing tools to support sales of American AI systems abroad, as the Trump administration weighs broader debates over advanced chip sales.

Artificial Intelligence

Virtualitics targets public sector customers with OpenAI partnership

Virtualitics is the latest company to partner with a frontier AI firm to enhance its existing software suite.

Ideas

Federal agencies are rushing into AI without cleaning house first

COMMENTARY | The agencies that prepare their digital house first will get the productivity gains.

Artificial Intelligence

Nearly 3.4M users across government can use AI through OneGov, GSA official says

Birgit Smeltzer, director of GSA’s Office of IT Products, IT Category, said “more than 120 orders have been placed against OneGov’s AI offerings,” with savings achieved thus far totaling at least $1.15 billion.

Ideas

Why access to AI does not equal federal mission capability

COMMENTARY | Federal agencies need to conduct a hard review of whether their current AI pilots can survive contact with real contracting, oversight and operational demands.