The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is seeking public comment about the pros and cons of “open-weight” artificial intelligence systems to help guide policy. These…
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Kremlin-backed influence operations that seek to distort public discourse and disseminate propaganda across social media platforms will likely increase in 2024 as governments around the…
President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Wednesday that would give the Homeland Security Department more authority to address maritime cybersecurity…
The U.S. House of Representatives announced the creation of a new task force focused on artificial intelligence on Tuesday, as Congress continues to explore whether…
The Agriculture Department has issued a call for applications for its first cohort of digital service fellows, who will be part of the agency’s new…
NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce will retire at the end of March after 34 years of service, the agency announced Tuesday. Joyce has led NSA’s…
Positioning high-quality data as the foundation of the Department of Defense’s work to scale artificial intelligence technologies across its mission will require significant partnerships with…
The Office of Personnel Management is inching ahead on past-due requirements for artificial intelligence-related work mandated by Congress in the AI in Government Act of…
The FBI and other international law enforcement agencies seized the main website of the prolific LockBit ransomware group and several public sites the gang used…
The Department of Veteran Affairs is already using artificial intelligence and automated tools to enhance the clinical experience for veterans, but lawmakers cautioned VA to…
Twenty technology and AI-focused firms — including Google, Microsoft, Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram), OpenAI and X (formerly known as Twitter) —…
The $50 billion CIO-SP4 contract is under protest again, but this time at least four companies have gone to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims with…
SAN DIEGO—Sailors who tinker with data sets at sea: know that Capt. Bryan Braswell sees you—and wants to formally fold data science into information warfare…
SPECIAL TO NEXTGOV/FCW The threat of deepfakes started to hit home for policymakers in 2023. The potential malicious uses of the technology were always clear. But…
Hundreds of thousands of veterans may have had inaccurate or incorrect medication information included in their charts as a result of interoperability issues between medical…
On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission finalized a new rule extending protections to government and business impersonations to help curb scams and put out a…
The White House launched a new, searchable federal spending inventory on Thursday. The Federal Program Inventory pulls from existing government data sources like SAM.gov and…
The FBI disrupted a botnet operation managed by Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate, the latest in a slew of actions that national security authorities have carried…
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., the chair of an oversight subcommittee focused on information technology, is probing the General Services Administration’s purchase of 150 Chinese-manufactured video…
Asking large language models for information on intelligence agencies and using them to help fix scripting errors and develop code to hack into systems. Translating…