A bipartisan group of senators is asking the Office of Federal Procurement Policy for a plan to implement a law now two years overdue.

At a listening session, government contracting experts and AI companies said the revised rule is too vague and doesn’t follow current commercial contracting standards.

Public comment will open on Tuesday on four proposed rules to update the federal acquisition process.

It follows a 30% reduction in the acquisition workforce at the General Services Administration over the past year.

The agency’s deputy administrator, who previously led GSA on an acting basis, has been named CEO of C3 AI.

While past administrations have tried to reform the FAR, Josh Gruenbaum believes “this time is different” with the use of AI.

Spurred by an April executive order, the Trump administration plans to issue a slimmed-down version of the Federal Acquisition Regulation later this year.

Robin Carnahan said the new policy will push her agency to protect government data and use it responsibly within AI tools, encourage experimentation of the technology —…

“By standardizing a set of minimum cybersecurity standards to be applied consistently to FISs, the proposed rule would ensure that such systems are better positioned in advance…

The new rule follows a White House memo in February that gave government IT leaders 30 days to identify the presence of the app on agency devices.