Cybersecurity
OMB Chief: Contractors Need More Time to Cut Ties With Huawei, ZTE
Without the extension, there could be “a dramatic reduction” in the contractors that can legally do business with the government, according to acting OMB Director Russel Vought.
Ideas
How to Stop Fearing AI
The latest cloud of fear emanating is that artificial intelligence will pass along or even amplify the biases and inequities that have plagued our society for decades.
Digital Government
Where a Census Undercount Will Hurt (or Help) Most
A 2020 Census that favors white and Republican-leaning districts—and undercounts younger, lower income, and black and Hispanic residents—seems ever more likely.
Policy
Audit: Pentagon Acquisition Reform Requires More Leadership Attention
The Government Accountability Office also flagged a lack of oversight for many of the department's mid-tier programs.
Digital Government
Presidential Hopeful Aims to Give Feds Faster Access to Student Loan Forgiveness
Federal employees would no longer have to wait until they had served 10 years.
Emerging Tech
White House Seeks Input on Impending Quantum Computing Policy
The administration wants to know what will transform the quantum information science landscape.
Artificial Intelligence
Want to Weigh In on the Government’s AI Standards? There’s Still Time.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology extended the submission period for proposals to help develop “reliable, robust and trustworthy” AI tools.
Emerging Tech
Why Aren’t Cities Getting Ready for Autonomous Vehicles?
Self-driving vehicle technology may be coming, but most city leaders aren’t doing much to anticipate our robot-car future, a new study warns.
Digital Government
House Panel Advances Spending Bill With 3.1% Pay Raise for Feds
The measure also would block the Trump administration’s plan to merge the Office of Personnel Management with the General Services Administration.
Digital Government
16 Things OMB Wants Agencies to Accomplish in the Data Strategy's First Year
Agencies and other stakeholders have until July 5 to comment on the draft action plan, which includes hard deliverables for all of government.
Emerging Tech
Bill Aims to Streamline Approval for Critical 5G Infrastructure
Senators reintroduced legislation to accelerate the deployment of small cells, which help power 5G networks.
Policy
DHS Would Get At Least $2.9B for Tech, Cyber Under House Proposal
The draft spending bill would set aside funding for new technologies at the border and a couple billion for the government’s central cybersecurity agency.
Digital Government
Commerce Asks for Feedback On Unreleased Data Strategy Action Plan
An agency leading development of the Federal Data Strategy wants input on the draft action plan, though it won’t be released until later this week, at the earliest.
Emerging Tech
CBP’s Airport Facial Recognition ‘Is Not a Surveillance Program’
As the public grows wary of facial recognition, the head of CBP’s biometric entry and exit initiative says the agency is using the tech responsibly.
Artificial Intelligence
Developing Standards For AI Won’t Go Like Past Technologies
Top experts and officials working on artificial intelligence say global competition has set the stage for a very different standards discussion than with past technologies.
Cybersecurity
Security Firm Says Huawei, ZTE Devices Still Run on Government Networks
About 4,000 devices are operating on federal, state and local public sector networks, according to security firm Forescout.
Ideas
Facebook’s Dystopian Definition of ‘Fake’
For the social-media platform, a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi is content, not a phony.
Digital Government
How the Veterans Affairs Department is ‘Hardwiring’ Customer Service into Everything
VA is on a mission to improve the veteran experience across every service it provides.
Emerging Tech
DOT Needs Help Writing the Rules for Driverless Vehicles
Many of today’s regulations focus on giving drivers more control over their cars, but for driverless cars, the Transportation Department will need to take humans out of the equation.
Digital Government
OPM-GSA Merger Could Cause Regulatory Bottleneck, Legal Challenges
Even if Congress were to pass the Trump administration’s proposal to reorganize OPM, it could still take years before policymakers could tackle other workforce issues.
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