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Artificial Intelligence

Veterans Affairs previews timeline for enterprise AI services competition

A final solicitation for the potential three-year contract is just around the corner and will task the winner with rolling out artificial intelligence capabilities to 540,000 users.

Emerging Tech

DHS exploring new biosurveillance capabilities as biological threats evolve, officials say

DHS Science and Technology Directorate officials said emerging technologies are forcing the agency to rethink how it detects biological agents.

Sponsor Content

One Citizen Record, Many Federal Missions

Discover how inaccurate address data can fuel fraud, disrupt federal services, and create costly downstream risks across government operations.

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.

Policy

Congress — not the president — should appoint the next GAO head, bipartisan coalition argues

The organizations from across the political spectrum contended that former Comptroller General Gene Dodaro’s retirement last year provides an opportunity for lawmakers to overhaul the nomination process.

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.

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.

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Navigating the Pause: The Increased Impact of CMMC Self-Assessments

Navigate CMMC Phase 2 changes, NIST controls, and False Claims Act risks with a practical roadmap for audit-ready compliance

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.

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.