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The Trump administration will still allow agencies to use commercial credential service providers in addition to the in-house capability, but it is strongly encouraging them to promote Login.gov.

After months of security testing, Pentagon adds an OpenAI product to the list of AI tools approved for unclassified work.

An agency spokesperson said the four-year Learning Insights for Action project “will enable CMS to efficiently target resources across models with varying periods of performance and support cross-model learning.”

The agency “wants to ensure maximum transparency to empower patients, providers and other stakeholders as we continue our battle against the opioid epidemic,” said CDC Director Erica Schwartz.

Project Watershed 250 will stress-test utilities over six months and could serve as a model for protecting water providers nationwide.

New guidance from the National Archives and Records Administration outlines when agencies should preserve AI-related materials as federal records and notes there is no “one size fits all” approach to doing so.

This week’s bills seek to label sponsored content in AI platforms, fortify emerging technology supply chains and spur adoption of open-weight models.

The federal human resources department is exploring new AI tools for USA JOBS, USA Staffing and other USA hiring tools as agencies use AI in their hiring processes, according to the memo.

A new executive order targets hardware, software and remote-access services and could require operators to isolate or replace equipment already in use.

A Northern California judge found that the AI company’s products did not represent a meaningful threat to national security, making the Pentagon’s designation “unlawful retaliation.”

Job replacement due to AI is less of a threat than falling behind due to lack of adoption, Senior Advisor for Technology and Strategy Matheus Passos said.

The federal government plans to announce new projects receiving modernization dollars at the end of next month, ahead of a possible expiration for the fund.

Nathan Vilas Laatsch was allegedly disgruntled by the Trump administration and willing to share sensitive data with the foreign country. The FBI set up a dead drop operation to intercept the classified materials.

The spy agency is taking a key role in the government’s new voluntary model-testing program, though its deputy director did not say which companies are participating.

The agency says the affected system was isolated from its broader network and eForms platform but has not disclosed whether data was stolen.

The Department of Transportation “has never taken a single enforcement action related to privacy,” Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, said in a letter to the Government Accountability Office.

The plans come as several states face water system intrusions from what some official suspect could be linked to Iran.

A legal expert told Nextgov/FCW the possibility underscores how the federal government is “fully unprepared for how bad” AI-driven procurement fraud is going to get.

A hacking group used the tools to target networks belonging to NASA, the Federal Reserve, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Senate and the departments of Energy, Justice and Health and Human Services.

The General Services Administration is seeing a string of personnel changes leading up to the federal chief information officer’s departure from government at the end of the month.

The White House added General Services Administration fraud estimates to its website that serves as a ledger for suspected fraud across the federal government.

A bipartisan group says unfinished export control rules leave civilian intelligence services able to obtain U.S. cyber, surveillance and AI assistance.

Four of the five people named in the cyber action were also charged last week in the Justice Department’s expanded Mabna Institute case.

The guidance directs the Transportation Department and other agencies to “implement a plan to integrate space launch and reentry management into airspace and traffic control modernization efforts.”