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The changes have been years in the making and represent a federal hiring apparatus more focused on applicable skills than specific backgrounds.

COMMENTARY | Instead of doing more with less, organizations should have experts focus on what they do best.

“Their collective expertise in cybersecurity, defense innovation, and enterprise-level strategy is exactly what we need to accelerate our mission,” Defense CIO Kirsten Davies said about her new leadership team.

Sean Cairncross also said that his office and others in the administration are in touch with AI and tech companies following Anthropic’s Project Glasswing announcement.

GOP leadership is confronting a possible shortfall in support.

In responding to a December 2025 congressional inquiry, the Office of Personnel Management noted the separation of around 35 customer service representatives last year, but failed to mention more than 100 departures from its Retirement Services division.

A markup in the Senate Commerce Committee outfitted the National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act to support near-term quantum application development, cybersecurity migration timelines and scaling testbeds for quantum sciences and technologies.

The reversal presents a major setback for students who had secured internships after months of confusion about their job outcomes.

The company’s powerful Mythos, unveiled earlier this month, won’t be the only supercharged AI system to hit the market, Jack Clark said.

The Department of Veterans Affairs previously paused most deployments of its modernized electronic health record system in April 2023 following a series of performance and technical issues.

“Through Tech Force, we’re recruiting highly skilled cybersecurity professionals to take on real challenges and strengthen the government’s defenses where it matters most,” OPM director Scott Kupor said in a statement.

A new oversight report that sampled four federal agencies underscored several hindrances to effective AI adoption, including a lack of policies for collecting lessons learned in the technology’s acquisition.

The prior lead administrator withdrew from the Biden-era Cyber Trust Mark initiative after the launch of a Trump administration probe into its alleged China ties.

The Friday decision follows a January court filing in which the government conceded that DOGE associates may have improperly accessed sensitive data at the agency.

A proposed FY27 overhaul would still leave DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis answerable to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, despite questions about its oversight.

During Congress’s final week in recess, new legislation and amendments that were proposed run the tech policy gamut.

COMMENTARY | Treating data a strategic asset and defending it accordingly isn’t simply a matter of technology policy; it’s a fundamental component of national resilience.

The White House is expanding the market for offensive cyber capabilities — and drawing more of the private sector into that ecosystem — even as policy boundaries around their use remain unclear.

The program still requires reauthorization from Congress, and the judge notably took issue with how spy agencies use filtering tools to sift through raw data collected by the program.

The move signals that Treasury is increasingly treating cryptocurrency firms as part of the nation’s core financial infrastructure, making them a prime target for hackers.

COMMENTARY | Make continuity planning an operational discipline rather than a compliance exercise.

The spy agency managed a few hundred AI projects last year, and recently used AI to generate an intelligence report for the first time, deputy director Michael Ellis said.

Sasha Baker, OpenAI’s head of national security policy, said a “workforce transformation” is needed to make sure that humans are making the final calls to keep people and systems safe.

Critics say the scope established in the agency’s systems of record notice “is an astonishing and dramatic departure from prior Treasury practice.”