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Digital Government

Login.gov is now accepting mobile driver’s licenses

The feature builds on the federal government’s effort to mandate that agencies use the digital identity verification platform.

Artificial Intelligence

Abridge selected for VA ambient AI enterprise contract

The department plans to expand the technology to select outpatient care providers.

Modernization

Do data centers need a ‘national strategy that puts communities first’?

The House passed a bill to mandate that state regulators have a strategy to have large consumers pay for their own power. But plenty of work lies ahead.

Sponsor Content

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Artificial Intelligence

Trump floats creating an ‘AI Force’

President Donald Trump said the AI Force would be analogous with the Space Force, a military service branch created during his first term to protect U.S. space interests.

Acquisition

DOJ signals interest in piloting AI legal assistant

The pilot would assess whether AI can execute multi-step legal tasks without step-by-step attorney prompting.

Artificial Intelligence

DC-area airports first to deploy AI tool for airspace management

The SMART tool uses AI to crunch 200 different streams of flight data “to predict traffic flows and identify potential conflicts before they occur,” according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Acquisition

FAR Overhaul targets commercial buying and negotiations in newest rewrite

Parts 12 and 15 have revisions ready for industry to read, while two other parts of the Federal Acquisition Regulation are deleted entirely in a push to increase competition.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech bills of the week: Monitoring AI’s use under Section 702; Preventing abuse of Flock plate readers; and more

Lawmakers introduced several measures this week looking to rein in some of the potential abuses and dangers of using AI, as well as a proposal that looks to leverage AI for pediatric cancer research and treatment.

People

NASA employees: EEOC committed ‘flagrant distortions’ to decertify class complaint

EEOC officials touted a long-running discrimination case against NASA as an example why federal sector cases were in need of reform. The employees who brought the case said commissioners railroaded them.

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Ideas

FAFSA's turnaround wasn't a miracle. That's the point.

COMMENTARY | Paying for their education should not depend on whether a system failed badly enough to get fixed in the first place.

Ideas

Cyber recovery deters what no kill switch can stop

COMMENTARY | A kill switch is a last resort, not a control system or option to use daily.

Digital Government

Inside Commerce efforts to break data siloes and improve integrity

An agency official also encouraged public comment on a proposed overhaul of the census that would eliminate race questions and change who is counted as living in the U.S.

Acquisition

DHS sets fast-track schedule for network, cloud and cyber consolidation vehicle

The Homeland Security Department is working against a compressed timeline to make awards for this contract to centralize IT operations at headquarters and across components.

Emerging Tech

Energy launches quantum computer development competition

The initiative will offer up to $215 million in total planned funding to domestic firms that are able to reach certain milestones in the development of the world’s first fault-tolerant, scientifically relevant quantum computer.

Acquisition

Anthropic extends $1 per user OneGov deal by a month

The OneGov extension means discounted access to Google Gemini is the only deal under the program currently set to expire at the end of this month.

People

GSA’s web design system head replaced with Treasury AI engineer

The U.S. Web Design System is intended to help the federal government build accessible and mobile-friendly websites.

Artificial Intelligence

AI ‘is changing the game’ in fraud threats and prevention efforts, SSA OIG official says

Chief Strategy Officer for the SSA Office of the Inspector General Chad Bungard said “the government is looking towards AI to fight fraud, and the criminals are looking towards AI to commit fraud.”

Acquisition

Salesforce expands Missionforce with new AI capabilities, OpenAI partnership

The company recently announced it will also bring NVIDIA Nemotron-based models and accelerated computing into Missionforce, an agentic platform for agencies.