Elon Musk, who oversees the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), wears a “Tech Support” t-shirt as he speaks during the first cabinet meeting of Trump’s second term, on Feb. 26, 2025. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) | FedScoop
While the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and other key CHIPS Act agencies would see boosts under Biden’s request, it still falls short of congressional authorizations.| FedScoop
The new law provides roughly $52.7 billion to help drive semiconductor research and innovation.| FedScoop
Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., speaks at the rally at the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Fair Share America) | FedScoop
A screen displays the Anthropic Claude app. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) | FedScoop
Energy Secretary Chris Wright testifies at a House subcommittee hearing on the department’s budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 7, 2025. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) | FedScoop
In a letter to Howard Lutnick, leading tech associations say downsizing NIST “will have ramifications” for the country’s ability to lead on AI.| FedScoop
Modernizing federal systems — and reaping the efficiencies that come with that — requires expedited federal hiring.| FedScoop
Hackers are believed to have accessed the agency's Constant Contact email marketing service account.| FedScoop
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The agency is leaning heavily into the new technology, with a goal of hiring 50 AI experts throughout the year.| FedScoop
The White House is giving federal employees until Feb. 6 to accept the offer, President Trump’s latest move to drastically cut the government’s workforce.| FedScoop
The free electronic filing program has been targeted by Senate and House GOP lawmakers and the tax preparation industry since its 2024 launch.| FedScoop
The department’s deputy inspector general said the audit will examine access and security controls on Bureau of Fiscal Service systems.| FedScoop
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The Internal Revenue Service building on Feb. 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Annabelle Gordon for The Washington Post via Getty Images) | FedScoop
Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz speaks during an event on Health Technology in the East Room of the White House as U.S. President Donald Trump and Acting Administrator of the United States Department of Government Efficiency Amy Gleason listen on July 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) | FedScoop
In an email obtained by FedScoop, Rajiv Uppal said his last day will be April 28.| FedScoop
A GOP policy rider zeroes out funding for government-run tax preparation software, a week after the agency said its free electronic filing program would be made permanent.| FedScoop
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The Trump administration has already hit the tax agency with thousands of firings.| FedScoop
When combined with retirements and deferred resignation, HHS’s workforce is set to go from 82,000 to 62,000 full-time employees.| FedScoop
Officials at the Food and Drug Administration who spoke to FedScoop believe that information from a recent “data call” on critical and essential systems informed staff reductions.| FedScoop
Some House Democrats have criticized the group’s access to IT systems, including those at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.| FedScoop
The seal of the Department of Homeland Security is seen on a podium on Feb. 23, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) | FedScoop
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DHS CIO and CAIO Eric Hysen told FedScoop that the agency is taking different approaches to public generative AI tools and similar technology incorporated into its IT systems.| FedScoop
The new “AI Corps” is modeled after the U.S. Digital Service and aimed at leveraging the budding technology across the agency in a responsible way.| FedScoop
Previously undisclosed use cases include an ICE facial recognition system and technology for identifying “proof of life".| FedScoop
Treasury's interest in these AI tools comes as its IT workforce has been slimmed under the Trump administration.| FedScoop
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testifies during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on fiscal year 2026 budget requests for the Department of Commerce on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 5, 2025. (Photo by OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images) | FedScoop
Advocates say they’ll work to expand the Merit Systems Protection Board’s stay to all probationary employees who were fired unlawfully.| FedScoop
The decision is a blow to attempts by unions to prevent the mass firings of federal probationary workers.| FedScoop
DOE’s national labs play a big role in the TEST AI Act, which would establish a testbed pilot to develop and refine measurement standards used to assess AI systems.| FedScoop
The exits of the department’s CTO and CISO come amid major turnover in the agency’s IT shop.| FedScoop
The federal court order follows another win for probationary employees who challenged their terminations before the Merit Systems Protection Board.| FedScoop
The human capital agency updated guidance to say it’s “not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions.”| FedScoop
Deletions include a Facebook ad system used for collecting media clips and behavioral analytics for online surveys.| FedScoop
The new total more than doubles the figure from last year. Of those use cases, 227 were labeled rights- or safety-impacting.| FedScoop
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The Biden administration’s release of AI use case inventories is “a step” in the right direction, but tech policy experts have suggestions for ways to improve the government’s database.| FedScoop
The clarification comes after the U.S. Department of Transportation previously included ChatGPT in a public list of AI use cases.| FedScoop
Many of the roughly 180 artificial intelligence use cases recently reported by the Department of Energy began development or acquisition between 2017 and 2023.| FedScoop
The new Biden executive order instructs agencies to name people to the position.| FedScoop
Dorothy Aronson, the National Science Foundation chief data officer, has been selected to also serve as the agency’s chief artificial intelligence officer.| FedScoop
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The memo and a corresponding framework for governance outline next steps for the federal government on advancing AI in national security.| FedScoop
A view of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23, 2022. (Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images) | FedScoop
As Washington putters on AI watermarking legislation, TikTok and Adobe are leading the way with transparency standards.| FedScoop
A sign marks the entrance to the Department of Commerce headquarters building on April 30, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images) | FedScoop
The Office of Science and Technology Policy highlighted efforts from federal agencies to support child online safety and privacy.| FedScoop
The Office of Science and Technology Policy also teased next steps for upskilling staff and recruiting talent.| FedScoop
White House officials said their 2050 cross-sector plan is aimed at bolstering competitiveness and diversifying the science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine fields.| FedScoop
As the Biden administration teases a new AI executive order, federal agencies are still catching up with 2020 AI rules issued by the Trump administration.| FedScoop
A stop sign is seen in front of the White House on May 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Ting Shen / AFP) (Photo by TING SHEN/AFP via Getty Images) | FedScoop
Michael Kratsios speaks Sept. 29, 2018, at a technology event in Fargo, North Dakota. (North Dakota Department of Transportation / Flickr) | FedScoop
President Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room flanked by Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank, Larry Ellison, executive charmain of Oracle, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the White House on Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) | FedScoop
Requiring the release of custom AI code, designating an “AI Talent Lead,” and extending deadlines were among the changes made to the final version of a White House memo on AI governance.| FedScoop
The Government Accountability Office finds “instances of incomplete and inaccurate data” in agencies’ artificial intelligence inventories and reveals about 1,200 total uses of AI reported by the agencies it analyzed.| FedScoop
New AI-enabled platforms promise to revolutionize scientific and governmental research — and unleash new considerations for federal agencies, says a new report.| FedScoop
The White House is pictured on the night of Nov. 8, 2016, in Washington, D.C. (Yuri Gripas / AFP via Getty Images) | FedScoop
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Long-awaited EO calls for new regulatory strategies for federal use of the technology and more AI jobs within the government, among many other provisions.| FedScoop
Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, center, testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Legislative Branch subcommittee, while Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel, left, and Government Publishing Office Director Hugh Halpern, right, look on. The hearing was held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) | FedScoop
The agency is currently in an 'experimentation phase' with a large language model that could lend itself to a variety of use cases, GAO's chief data scientist said.| FedScoop
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U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hold an event to highlight their administration’s approach to artificial intelligence in the East Room of the White House on October 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. President Biden issued a new executive order on Monday, directing his administration to create a new chief AI officer, track companies developing the most powerful AI systems, adopt stronger privacy policies and “both deploy AI and guard against its possible bias,” creati...| FedScoop
Newly released guidance comes amid a series of new Biden administration AI regulatory efforts.| FedScoop
Amid growing attention on artificial intelligence, more than a third of major agencies have appointed chief AI officers.| FedScoop
The White House is specifically seeking input on what should be made public in agency AI use case inventories as part of the Office of Management and Budget’s new guidance.| FedScoop
The complaint, filed under the Freedom of Information Act, aims to compel the release of documents related to NSA’s use of artificial intelligence.| FedScoop
An amendment that would jeopardize key elements of Biden’s AI executive order advanced out of a Senate panel. Democrats contend it can be fixed later.| FedScoop
“Red Team” members watch security camera footage of their effects on a simulated water treatment facility at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Indiana on June 16, 2022 in Niantic, CT. Cyber Yankee is an annual exercise that pits Blue Teams (network defenders) against a Red Team (network intruders/attackers) on a cyber range which is modeled after a critical infrastructure company’s network. (Photo by Maj. David Pytlik, Connecticut National Guard Public Affairs Office) | FedScoop
Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) speaks during a House hearing on Oct. 18, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images) | FedScoop
Britain’s Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan (R) greets U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo during the U.K. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, in central England, on Nov. 1, 2023. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images) | FedScoop
The long-awaited document consists of five key principles for the regulation of the technology.| FedScoop
President Joe Biden shakes hand with former President Donald Trump as they join family and friends at Ground Zero on the 23rd anniversary of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)| FedScoop
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President Joe Biden shakes hand with former President Donald Trump as they join family and friends at Ground Zero on the 23rd anniversary of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)| FedScoop
President Joe Biden shakes hand with former President Donald Trump as they join family and friends at Ground Zero on the 23rd anniversary of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)| FedScoop
The document sets out four key functions that the Commerce Department agency says are crucial for building responsible AI systems.| FedScoop
AI policy specialists say a lack of guidance from the White House on how to square divergent rights-based and risk-based approaches to AI is proving a challenge for companies working to create new products and safeguards.| FedScoop
Elon Musk puts his son on his shoulders as he joins President Donald Trump for an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 11, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Trump signed an executive order implementing the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) “workforce optimization initiative.” (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) | FedScoop
President Donald Trump, joined by Michael Kratsios, signs a presidential memo for continued testing of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)-drones, at his Oval Office desk Oct. 25, 2017. (White House / Shealah Craighead) | FedScoop
President says the document, which builds on the administration’s “AI Bill of Rights” blueprint, is a testament to “safety, security, trust and openness” when it comes to artificial intelligence.| FedScoop
Finalized document sets a deadline of Dec. 16, 2024 for agencies to submit their updated inventories of artificial intelligence use cases.| FedScoop
The plans offer a first glimpse into how the federal government intends to tackle new requirements and responsibilities for AI governance outlined by OMB.| FedScoop
Agencies disclosed obstacles to responsible use of AI in compliance plans recently shared with the White House.| FedScoop
Rep. Gerry Connolly said he wouldn’t be surprised if the next scorecard shows lower marks as leaders mull new categories.| FedScoop
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The framework will initially prioritize chat interfaces, code-generation and debugging tools, and prompt-based image generators, as well as APIs that integrate those capabilities.| FedScoop
Eric Mill, executive director for cloud strategy at GSA’s Technology and Transformation Services, details FedRAMP-related pilot projects and recruitment efforts.| FedScoop
The federal government’s cloud services compliance program says it needs “to scale and automate our own processes beyond where they’re at now.”| FedScoop
USAID will use the tool to reduce admin burdens and ease partnerships, OpenAI’s Anna Makanju said in a Q&A with FedScoop.| FedScoop
A majority of civilian CFO Act agencies have come up with generative AI strategies, according to a FedScoop analysis.| FedScoop
The data and AI product lead in the agency’s CTO office said they're experimenting with two generative AI tools for internal workflow.| FedScoop
The former top innovator at the Government Accountability Office, Taka Ariga, is hopeful that the unit will remain “vanguard of experimentation and exploration” for Congress and others.| FedScoop
The Office of Science and Technology Policy disagreed with the watchdog’s recommendation that it should inform agencies about their status as implementing agencies with regulatory authority.| FedScoop
