Defense
The Army’s giant data deal with Palantir is a harbinger: service CIO
The 10-year, up-to-$10 billion deal is part of a larger effort to consolidate IT contracts and save money, Leonel Garciga told reporters.
Cybersecurity
Government layoffs are making us less safe in cyberspace, experts fear
There’s been a mass exodus of government cyber expertise during the Trump administration.
Ideas
GSA’s procurement moves reaping major discounts for government
COMMENTARY | The agency is making use of the government’s buying power in ways it hasn’t since the early 1990s.
Acquisition
Docusign discounts prices on software across government until 2027
The discounts cover two key software lines for all federal agencies.
Digital Government
White House launches digital health initiative backed by leading tech firms
President Trump said the effort to create a more robust digital health ecosystem will give providers and patients more streamlined access to health information.
Digital Government
GSA announces centralized travel service ‘GO.Gov’
Go.Gov will replace individual agency travel management systems and act as a shared service across the government.
Artificial Intelligence
Lawmakers, former officials press Commerce over NVIDIA’s chip sales to China
A NVIDIA spokesperson said criticisms of the company’s resumption of H20 chip sales to China “are misguided and inconsistent with the Administration's AI Action Plan.”
Artificial Intelligence
TSA seeks private sector input to enhance airport security
The agency is seeking solutions that “leverage innovative technology” to improve the security screening experience for both travelers and TSA personnel.
Artificial Intelligence
Trump’s order to remove ‘woke’ AI from government may have ‘downstream impacts,’ experts worry
Some experts and advocates warned that last week's executive order will have a chilling effect on free speech.
Artificial Intelligence
AWS and Idaho National Lab to collaborate on AI for nuclear energy
Software from Amazon Web Services will help the Idaho National Laboratory research and scale modular nuclear reactors to help power data centers.
Acquisition
Pentagon halts $15B Advana recompete draft solicitation
DOD was previously looking to bring in new vendors to support its Advana data-analytics platform through a potential 10-year, $15 billion Advancing Artificial Intelligence Multiple Award Contract.
Cybersecurity
Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities, Microsoft says
The bugs affecting on-premises builds of SharePoint deployments are officially being exploited by at least two major Chinese nation-state hacking units, the company said. Patches have been issued for all affected versions of SharePoint.
Artificial Intelligence
Resuming NVIDIA’s AI chip sales to China could weaken US leadership, lawmaker says
House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich., said Beijing-focused export controls should be designed to keep China’s military “from leapfrogging ahead with U.S. hardware.”
Cybersecurity
Threat intel firms on alert for government systems impacted by Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability
Governments, schools, healthcare providers and large enterprise firms are at risk, one cyber threat intelligence chief said.
Defense
Microsoft ends use of China-based engineers to patch DOD systems
The move comes after a ProPublica report highlighted a Microsoft program that allows foreign engineers to indirectly interact with U.S. military systems through American “escort” intermediaries.
Emerging Tech
SECNAV: Robots won’t replace shipbuilders, but they could make jobs ‘easier’
Phelan said shipyards should equip workers with tools like automation and robotics to boost training.
Acquisition
Idaho National Lab teams up with Microsoft to improve nuclear permitting reviews
The collaboration will enable the lab to use Microsoft’s Azure cloud and artificial AI tech to “streamline and accelerate the review process” for required reports from reactor developers.
Exclusive
Acquisition
GSA, Uber partner to cut travel costs for feds, military and select contractors
The partnership with Uber for Business has major implications for the federal workforce at home and abroad.
Updated
Acquisition
Pentagon awards multiple companies $200M contracts for AI tools
Four tech firms just won big.
Artificial Intelligence