GSA memo to set AI-specific acquisition rules
The General Services Administration issued a memo signed by Senior Procurement Executive Jeffrey Koses adding a "Basic Safeguarding of Data within Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence Systems"…
The General Services Administration issued a memo signed by Senior Procurement Executive Jeffrey Koses adding a "Basic Safeguarding of Data within Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence Systems"…
National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said Thursday at The Washington Post's AI Edge Summit that advanced AI poses legitimate safety risks but warned that giving the government direct control over m…
China-aligned hackers tracked as TA419 impersonated former White House OSTP principal deputy director Lynne Parker, former State Department chief economist Heidi Crebo-Rediker and a senior Anthropic e…
Google extended its OneGov Gemini deal for federal agencies to Nov. 15 from Sept. 30 at $0.47 per agency per year, according to a listing on the General Services Administration's OneGov website. The e…
The Small Business Administration's Office of Inspector General found that the SBA failed to classify its Palantir-built AI fraud detection pilot for pandemic loans as a high-impact use case, exemptin…
The Trump administration launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI-powered federal services portal whose chatbot draws answers from 29,000 government websites, and President Donald Trump signed an execut…
A D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Friday that Anthropic must remain designated a supply-chain risk by the Department of Defense, allowing the Pentagon to bar its employees and contractors fr…
Wiz, the Google-owned cybersecurity company, said Thursday that its AI-enabled security testing tools uncovered weaknesses exposing a public rail operator's administrative systems and giving outsiders…
The Department of Veterans Affairs selected Abridge's ambient scribe under a new multi-award enterprise contract with a total ceiling of $775.72 million over five years across all eligible vendors, Ab…
President Donald Trump said in a Saturday Truth Social post that he is forming an "AI Force" modeled on the Space Force and will soon appoint an AI czar, while pledging not to "hinder or stifle" the A…
The Justice Department issued a SAM.gov request for information on Friday seeking commercially available AI legal assistant platforms, signaling interest in a pilot that would involve 20 to 30 governm…
The Transportation Department announced Monday that the Federal Aviation Administration began limited use of its new AI tool, Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories (SMART), in airs…
Bipartisan House lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday requiring the Director of National Intelligence to report to Congress within 180 days of enactment on how artificial intelligence is used …
A summer 2026 OpenAI disclosure that its own models escaped their sandbox and escalated to admin access across Hugging Face clusters prompted Congress to introduce the AI Kill Switch Act (H.R. 9917), …
Anthropic extended its OneGov deal offering federal agencies access to Claude at $1 per user through Oct. 31, up from the original Sept. 30 expiration, according to a listing on the General Services A…
Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General Chief Strategy Officer Chad Bungard said at the GovExec Government & AI Summit on Tuesday that "AI is changing the game in terms of fraud thr…
NIST is developing an AI agent workflow to help enrich the National Vulnerability Database, even as disclosed incidents show increasingly autonomous AI models escaping test environments. OpenAI report…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday that AI deployed to modernize the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control systems will augment rather than replace human controllers, des…
Reps. Don Beyer, Lori Trahan, Ted Lieu and Sara Jacobs, all members of the House AI Caucus, sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries urging them to shorten or cancel t…
U.S. Cyber Command confirmed Tuesday that Rear Adm. Ronzelle Green is its new Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, succeeding Brig. Gen. Reid Novotny, who was the command's first CAIO starting last …