The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking an artificial intelligence-powered investigative analytics platform to uncover and disrupt transnational criminal networks – and monitor a million people.  […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants feedback on a newly developed chatbot for its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) to streamline the cybersecurity guidelines that it creates.  […]

The Department of Energy (DoE) will have at least three small modular reactors (SMRs) running by July of next year, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Congress on Wednesday – announcing a significant step forward for next-generation nuclear energy.  […]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is looking at how it can integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into its Geographic Information Infrastructure (GII), which is a shared sensitive but unclassified platform that provides critical geospatial capabilities across the Homeland Security Enterprise. […]

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate on June 13 aims to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare system by harnessing artificial intelligence technologies for that task. […]

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation on June 12 that would direct the National Security Agency (NSA) to create an artificial intelligence playbook to help safeguard American AI systems from foreign espionage and cyberattacks.  […]

More than 30 Democratic members of the House of Representatives are urging top Senate leaders to reconsider a proposal being offered in the Senate that would require states seeking Federal broadband support to abide by a proposed ten-year moratorium on creating state-level artificial intelligence (AI) regulations.    […]

Agentic artificial intelligence services – those that are designed to act with more autonomy than their generative or predictive AI forebears – drew a mixed reception today from lawmakers and witnesses who talked about the advantages of the latest AI flavor along with cybersecurity concerns during a hearing held by the House Homeland Security Committee’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee.   […]

A Federal watchdog said in a new report that the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) is falling short on overseeing its identity verification vendor’s use of artificial intelligence, even as it earns high marks for protecting taxpayer data.  […]

Lakshmi Raman, chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO) at the CIA, said on Tuesday that she’s excited about the potential of AI agents to further the cause of enterprise automation at the agency. […]

David Sacks, President Donald Trump’s special advisor for AI and crypto, stressed the need for the United States to win the AI race during remarks on Tuesday and warned that the “repercussions would be significant” if it fails to do so. […]

Artificial intelligence tools have been a “game changer” for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard saying today that AI is helping the intelligence community (IC) to get after its core mission. […]

President Donald Trump issued an order late Friday that makes modest changes to two cybersecurity executive orders issued by the Biden and Obama administrations, creating new urgency for action on several existing and developing cybersecurity challenges. […]

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) said it wants to significantly scale up its use of artificial intelligence in the coming months to streamline support for its patent examination process and reduce wait times on patents and trademarks.  […]

A small but significant slice of lawmakers – including several Republican members of the House and Senate – are getting cold feet over supporting the Trump administration’s reconciliation funding bill because it includes a House-approved provision that would impose a 10-year moratorium on state-level artificial intelligence regulation.   […]

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has made several new leadership appointments as part of an expansion of the company’s centers of excellence (COE) that focus on artificial intelligence, cyber, and mission software. […]

Integrating artificial intelligence into customer experience (CX) services can empower veterans and other constituents to shape how they are served, a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) CX expert said Tuesday.  […]

The Commerce Department is rebranding the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) that it oversees by swapping in a new moniker for the organization – the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) – that notably does not feature safety in its name. […]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is urging the Department of Defense (DoD) to prioritize competition and guard against market consolidation in its procurement of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is developing a prototype cloud platform aimed at modernizing legacy mainframe systems used by warfighters. […]

The next high-powered supercomputer is coming to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) under a new contract between the Department of Energy (DoE), Dell Technologies, and NVIDIA.   […]

While artificial intelligence (AI) tech has emerged as a game-changer in cybersecurity, one senior Federal official urged a degree of caution this week by saying that AI integration could do more harm than good without following strong foundational security practices. […]

Automation is emerging as a key enabler in the Department of Defense’s (DoD) push toward creating zero trust security architectures, allowing for faster threat remediation and reduced operational burdens. […]

As the uptake in artificial intelligence tech adoption and cryptocurrencies rapidly reshape the financial sector, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero urged regulators to “keep pace” or risk falling behind and exposing the most vulnerable to harm.  […]

While he admits that “not much has gotten done in the first four months of this Congress,” Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., is hopeful that the 119th Congress will be able to pass some meaningful AI legislation. […]

The U.S. Navy is turning to the private sector for cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to strengthen the performance of its maritime operations centers (MOCs), according to a new solicitation issued on May 23. […]

President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders on May 23 that aim to accelerate nuclear energy development by four-fold over current production levels in the next 25 years with the goal of supporting artificial intelligence technology innovation.  […]

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth last week pronounced 2025 as the “year of AI” at NGA, highlighting a new expansion of the agency’s AI-enabled detection for analysts as part of NGA’s artificial intelligence push. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP) is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tech to streamline vulnerability assessments and improve cyber defense across the defense industrial base (DIB). […]