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How to make Tech Force work

A former DHS AI Corps member and federal IT pro lays out a blueprint for how OPM’s new tech recruiting initiative can succeed.

By Abigail Haddad

Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia answers questions during a December 2025 interview with FedScoop. (YouTube screenshot)

Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia tapped for two leadership roles at GSA

Federal

By Miranda Nazzaro

Michael Duffy, acting federal chief information security officer at Office of Management and Budget, speaks at CyberTalks Feb. 19, 2026. (James Kim/EPNAC)

White House looks to pilot AI, ‘empower CISOs’ in push to improve cyber resilience

AI

By Madison Alder

Featured on FedScoop

Treasury watchdog finds poor data practices in financial crimes unit

By Matt Bracken
HHS’s reported AI uses soar, including pilots to address staff ‘shortage’

By Madison Alder
Interior Department finding momentum with modernization

By Lindsey Wilkinson
House bill seeks AI workforce tax credits, agency-led outreach

By Matt Bracken
SEC chair considers ‘innovation exemption’ for in-house AI testing

By Matt Bracken

Popular Stories

Friends and family of the victims where photographs around their neck during the National Transportation Safety Board’s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Midair Collision Investigative Hearing on July 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. The three-day investigative hearing examines the Jan. 29 midair collision between an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River that claimed the lives of 67 people. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

FAA, DOD data silos were partly to blame for last year’s DCA crash

The National Transportation Safety Board said a dearth in standardized and objective data hindered risk mitigation and stakeholders’ ability to identify hazards.

By Lindsey Wilkinson

A view of a Social Security Administration building in Burbank, Calif., on Nov. 5, 2020. (Photo by Valerie Macon /AFP via Getty Images)

SSA needs better assessment of data-sharing costs as Treasury program saves millions, GAO says

The report comes just days after President Trump signed a law permanently authorizing the SSA to share its death data with Treasury’s Do Not Pay system.

By Miranda Nazzaro

State Department CIO Kelly Fletcher, left, speaks during AI Talks in Washington, D.C., on April 18, 2024, while State CAIO Matthew Graviss looks on. (Scoop News Group photo)

State Department is gearing up to ‘roll out agentic AI’

CIO Kelly Fletcher sees a future with agency consolidation and simplification, paired with AI agents that “make it easy for people to do their job” and “reduce…

By Matt Bracken

WASHINGTON – APRIL 11: Department Of Health and Human Services, Hubert H. Humphrey Building on April 11, 2015 in Washington, D.C. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

HHS reports changes in deputy IT, artificial intelligence leadership

New acting deputy IT and AI chiefs are listed. Kevin Duvall, who previously served in both roles, is no longer on the page.

By Madison Alder

CBP ramps up surveillance tech without much-needed IT personnel, GAO says

By Lindsey Wilkinson

IRS moves operations employees to tax services for filing season amid workforce cuts

By Miranda Nazzaro

IRS official says agency improperly shared some taxpayer data with ICE

By Matt Bracken

Energy Department identifies 26 Genesis Mission challenges

By Lindsey Wilkinson

CBP to strengthen ‘tactical targeting,’ ‘counter-network analysis’ with Clearview AI

By Lindsey Wilkinson

Insights

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How to fix the government’s phone trust gap

By Jeff Huth

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Why automation is key to modernizing federal IT compliance

By Jason Venner

Rebuilding the digital bedrock of government

By Scoop News Group

Building a future-ready federal workforce

By Scoop News Group

Videos

Why AI is central to federal identity assurance

By Scoop News Group

How agencies are closing the gap between systems and service

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How AI is moving from dashboards to decision advantage across the Pentagon

By Scoop News Group

How Virginia is using enterprise IT modernization to improve constituent services

By Scoop News Group

Podcasts

Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia tapped for new leadership roles at GSA

By FedScoop Staff

FAA, DOD data silos were partly to blame for last year’s DCA crash

By FedScoop Staff

Customs and Border Protection personnel — not U.S. troops — used military laser to shoot object near El Paso

By FedScoop Staff

ICE director denies existence of database tracking US citizens

By FedScoop Staff

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Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks during the Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration hearing at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 10, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Senate takes up push to modernize environmental permitting process

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Joseph Edlow, and Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons watch a video clip during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Feb. 10, 2026 in Washington, DC. The Department of Homeland Security has faced criticism over law enforcement tactics targeting undocumented immigrants and the killing of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Acting ICE director denies existence of database tracking US citizens

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., listens as Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol on May 15, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Lawmakers take another shot at NSF-run prizes for using AI to solve problems

A view of the Department of Energy in Washington D.C., on May 18, 2025. (Photo by Wesley Lapointe/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Energy Department unveils Genesis Mission Consortium to spur partnerships

DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari prepares to depart a hearing on Washington, D.C., on July 23, 2025. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

DHS privacy probe will focus on biometric tracking by ICE, OBIM

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AI can speed research compliance — if agencies can explain the output

Federal immigration agents detain a man during an operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 27, 2026. (Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

Federal judge blocks ICE from using IRS taxpayer data in enforcement

An organizational flag flies outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 as demonstrators gather to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

Roughly 50,000 could lose federal workforce protections under new OPM rule

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Feb. 5, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Treasury pushing for ‘robust’ use of AI in banking, but in a ‘gradual’ way

A humanoid robot learns to organize shelves at the data collection training ground for humanoid robots in Qingdao, Shandong, China, on January 12, 2026. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

House lawmakers lay groundwork to create robotics commission

Jeffrey Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration, participates in a fireside chat with Jerry McGinn, the Center for the Industrial Base at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Feb. 4, 2026. (Scoop News Group photo by Miranda Nazzaro)

GSA procurement leader says ‘community readiness’ poses challenge to acquisition overhaul

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and ranking member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., confer during a hearing at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 21, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Bills to fund TMF, overhaul IT procurement move forward in House

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Federal officials tap open-source standard to improve GenAI access to public data

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