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Taylor Stockton, the Department of Labor’s chief innovation officer, speaks during a panel discussion at the FedScoop-produced Workday Federal Forum on April 28, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Scoop News Group photo)

Labor Department nears launch of AI workforce hub

The agency’s chief innovation officer told FedScoop that the portal of government and private-sector data will go public in “the coming months,” fulfilling a Trump AI Action…

By Matt Bracken

Three men in suits speak on stage into a microphone — Todd Brinson, deputy CIO of enterprise operations and shared services at the Department of Energy, speaks on a panel with John Walsh, DOE’s chief learning officer and director of the Office of Workforce Technology, during the Workday Federal Forum on April 28, 2026 in Washington, D.C.

Energy Department eyes AI-enabled self-service features for workforce

AI

By Lindsey Wilkinson

IRS CEO Frank Bisignano, center, talks with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., right, in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

House passes two bills to modernize IRS operations

Modernization

By Matt Bracken

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Interior still grapples with probate backlog even with AI assistance

By Lindsey Wilkinson
Federal union projects to lose ‘tens of thousands’ of members, court filing shows

By Matt Bracken
GSA announces a fresh cohort of Presidential Innovation Fellows

By Madison Alder
Treasury canceled Booz contracts over vetting of IRS leaker, Bessent says

By Matt Bracken
Agriculture Department kicks off $300M Palantir deal on IT, national security work

By Matt Bracken

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Securing the ‘last mile’ of critical federal work

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CISA director pick Sean Plankey withdraws his nomination

By Tim Starks

NRC gives sneak peak at website modernization progress

By Lindsey Wilkinson

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New report highlights agency advantages of using smaller, open-source AI models

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Modernization without compromise: Building trust into every federal service moment

By Chris McDermott

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Mission readiness depends on workforce agility and resilience

By Mike Houlihan

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Why fixing the personnel action process is key to workforce readiness

By Annamary Holbrook

Videos

Why the ‘agentic enterprise’ is the next evolution of federal AI

By Scoop News Group

IBM’s Jonathan Entwistle on closing the AI context gap

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OPM Director Scott Kupor on unlocking AI in federal services

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Salesforce’s Lisa DeMille on turning AI into real outcomes

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Federal union projects to lose ‘tens of thousands’ of members, court filing shows

By FedScoop Staff

GSA announces a fresh cohort of Presidential Innovation Fellows

By FedScoop Staff

Agriculture Department kicks off $300M Palantir deal on IT, national security work

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House Democrats want OPM, OMB to halt plans to collect federal worker health data

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Man in suit on stage in front of an audience — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks during the agency’s Modern Skies Summit on Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at the DOT Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

FAA tech teams to partner with AI vendors on customized ATC software

Protesters gather outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. The group of federal employees and supporters are protesting against Elon Musk, tech billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his aids who have been given access to federal employee personal data and have allegedly locked out career civil servants from the OPM computer systems. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

House Democrats want OPM, OMB to halt plans to collect federal worker health data

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Revealing the hidden risk in federal cloud modernization

Advocacy groups and community members protest laws surrounding data centers while outside the Texas Capitol in Austin Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. (Mikala Compton/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)

Energy secretary sees ‘growing’ opposition to AI as ‘very real’ risk

Michael Selig, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, appears during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Nov. 19, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

AI helping downsized CFTC run smoother than ever, chairman claims

Surveillance towers stand between new sections of the primary and secondary steel bollard-style border wall along the US-Mexico border on May 10, 2021 in San Diego County, California. US-Mexico frontier. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

DHS moves forward on autonomous surveillance towers at the border

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)

OPM is floating hundreds of Tech Force candidates to agencies

IRS CEO Frank Bisignano awaits the start of a hearing with the Senate Finance Committee on April 15, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

IRS chief tells receptive Republicans, doubting Democrats that tech spurred ‘most successful filing season’ ever

The U.S. Department of Energy building is seen behind a sign marking the location of the agency’s headquarters on March 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J.David Ake/Getty Images)

DOE launches AI testbed to evaluate models for energy operations

Chase Ausley stands on stage behind a lecturn with the words "AI Talks" written on it in large block letters. A matching AITalks backdrop fills the stage behind him. He is wearing a navy suit with a red tie. — Chase Ausley, a director within the U.S. DOGE Service and senior advisor at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks on stage at AITalks on April 14, 2026. (Photo via Scoop News Group)

US DOGE Service is alive and growing, organization official says

Amy Ritualo, the State Department’s acting chief data and AI officer, speaks during a fireside chat at AITalks on April 14, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Scoop News Group photo)

State Department eyes agentic AI for taking on ‘high-volume workflows’

Man in suit speaks on stage with a microphone — Carl Coe, chief of staff at the Department of Energy, speaks during Scoop News Group-produced AI Talks on April 14, 2026 in Washington, D.C.

Energy needs ‘a lot more’ funding to reach Genesis Mission goals, official says

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Agencies fall short on documenting AI acquisition best practices, GAO says

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