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Russell Vought testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on his second nomination to be OMB director, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 15, 2025. (Photo by JEMAL COUNTESS/AFP via Getty Images)

OMB swaps Biden-era cyber memo for new prioritized logging tactic

While the previous memo improved capabilities across the government, OMB said the new directive aims to slash the volume of data agencies collect.

By Madison Alder

(DHS photo by Jetta Disco / Flickr)

DHS seeks information on AI-powered biosurveillance

AI

By Lindsey Wilkinson

The Internal Revenue Service building on Feb. 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Annabelle Gordon for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Treasury watchdog pushes IRS to modernize work with unidentified payments

Modernization

By Matt Bracken

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DOT considers taking humans out of the AI loop

By Lindsey Wilkinson
House lawmakers seek more AI transparency from the SBA

By Matt Bracken
USDA would get more AI grants, research, farmer education under new Senate bill

By K. Sophie Will
Commerce announces $2 billion in quantum computing incentives for nine companies

By Madison Alder
VA head defends EHR budget ask to push program from ‘dial up’ to ‘cyber speed’

By K. Sophie Will

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President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs the White House on May 12, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump postpones executive order focused on AI security

Under a draft executive order, the NSA, Treasury Department and other federal agencies would get 90 days to test new models for cybersecurity and national security concerns.

By Derek B. Johnson

(Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

GSA and Snowflake strike OneGov deal for AI, data cloud products

The cloud-based data warehousing and analytics company offers 20% off compute services and potentially up to 50% as usage increases, per a GSA press release.

By K. Sophie Will

Small Business Administration headquarters. (Tajha Chappellet-Lanier)

Auditors find problems with SBA’s information security program

The agency has fallen short on nine of 10 security controls under OMB guidance, according to a new OIG report on FISMA compliance.

By Matt Bracken

(PAUL J.RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images)

USPTO seeking AI-driven image search tool for patent examiners

With a backlog of nearly 774,000 unexamined applications, the office is looking for a custom tool to boost efficiency and completeness.

By K. Sophie Will

DOT fights fraud with consolidated registration system, erasing data silos

By Lindsey Wilkinson

Resolute’s Chris Cadle on modernizing joint logistics with AI

By Scoop News Group

OTOT’s David Record talks agentic automation for faster ROI

By Scoop News Group

Invoke’s Johnny Ramondino on aligning automation with agency priorities

By Scoop News Group

EY’s Joe Baptiste on scaling AI across HR and mission operations

By Scoop News Group

Insights

Illustration of workers being productive using technology. — Scoop News Group illustration.

Federal business system modernization: New clues regarding readiness, reality and the road ahead

By Scoop News Group

SAP's Jamison Braun, SVP and managing director , U.S. Public Sector, speaking at AITalks in. Washington, DC. — Jamison Braun, SVP and managing director, U.S. Public Sector at SAP, speaking at AITalks, April 14 in Washington, DC.

From pilots to performance: Rethinking agencies’ approach to embedding AI

By Scoop News Group

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

By Scoop News Group

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Modernization without compromise: Building trust into every federal service moment

By Chris McDermott

Videos

Baker Tilly’s Jeff Barenz talks mission-wide automation

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Naviant’s Vince Hanson on blending human expertise with automation

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Groundswell’s David Ehrlich on prioritizing automation for mission value

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Accenture Federal Services’ Charles Anderson on maximizing automation ROI

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Podcasts

OMB update federal cyber logging tactics

By FedScoop Staff

DOD wants nearly $30 billion for a new AI Arsenal

By FedScoop Staff

The looming AI security executive order gets pushed back

By FedScoop Staff

Snowflake scores the latest federal OneGov deal for AI, data cloud products

By FedScoop Staff

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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., questions Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during a House Armed Services Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on April 29, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

House bill would enlist OPM in federal biotech workforce assessment

Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling testifies before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 19, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Acting Labor secretary eyes big budget boost for ID verification systems

Professionals on stage during a panel discussion. — ICE CIO Dustin Goetz sits on the far right during a panel discussion at AFCEA Bethesda’s LEAPS Summit in Washington, D.C on May 14, 2026. (Photo by Lisa Nipp)

ICE work with AI agents is minimal, CIO says

The Moon appears dark in the picture as white sunlight leaks out around its edges. A portion of the Orion spaceship, also in shadow, is visible on the left of the image. — The Moon was backlit by the Sun during the Artemis II mission on April 6, creating a solar eclipse. The photo was taken by a camera on the Orion spacecraft. Troy LeBlanc used it in his presentation as one of many examples of NASA images. (Photo via NASA)

From space photography to mission readiness, NASA turns to AI to alleviate data influx

The FEMA building on Jan. 7, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

DHS data-migration guidance falls short as modernization project nears

Advocates gather in Washington, D.C., to call out tax prep companies like Intuit TurboTax and H&R Block for blocking simplified filing and to support IRS exploration of alternative free tax filing on April 17, 2023. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Economic Security Project)

Senators seek GAO probe of IRS’s Free File program

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Federal agencies would use NIST’s AI guidelines under bipartisan House bill

Construction work continues at the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 30, 2025. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Financial regulatory agencies have fallen behind on joint data standards

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Beyond adoption: the three shifts needed for accountable federal AI

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents use their phones near protestors at a demonstration in Newark, New Jersey May 7, 2025, outside Delaney Hall, a newly converted immigrant detention centre. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)

White House pressing ICE for updates on wearable identity verification technology

From left: Rubrik Security Cloud’s Melissa Stein, the State Department’s Ray Romano and the Library of Congress’s Natalie Buda Smith take part in a panel discussion at Rubrik’s Federal Cyber Resilience Breakfast on May 14, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Scoop News Group photo by Maggie Callahan)

State Department is testing agentic AI to ‘buy back time’ for workers

Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia participates in a panel discuss at the Workday Federal Forum on April 28, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Scoop News Group photo)

OMB plans to make IT contract data collection public, per federal CIO

The lobby of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission headquarters in Rockville, Maryland on March 12, 2026. (Photo by Lindsey Wilkinson/FedScoop)

NRC efficiency plan to reuse DOE, DOD data met with skepticism

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