White House Launches AI.gov

All of the federal government’s initiatives and resources around artificial intelligence can be accessed under one top-level domain. | Continue reading


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The Pentagon Wants to Stop Enemies from 'Poisoning' AI

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking to defend machine learning tools against outside manipulation. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Flaws in Vendor Security Software Could Leave Some Federal Buildings Vulnerable

Poor credential management could let bad actors enter secure buildings, lock doors and download or change federal employee and contractor data. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Agencies Have 10 Days to Review, Secure Critical IT Weakness

The Homeland Security Department’s cybersecurity office issued an emergency directive requiring agencies to secure their Domain Name System infrastructure. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Russia: Expect a National AI Roadmap by Midyear

Moscow is starting to put financial and logistical muscle behind its efforts to develop artificial intelligence. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Survey: Americans Warming to Use of Facial Recognition Tech

Americans do not favor strict limits on facial recognition technology, according to a new national survey. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

The FBI Is Trying Amazon’s Facial-Recognition Software

The software allows the FBI to go through video surveillance footage much faster than agents can. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Senate Bill Would Force Security Clearance Reforms

It also would require the director of National Intelligence to rethink the SF-86 form and process. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

CBP Officers Aren’t Deleting Data After Warrantless Device Searches, IG Says

An inspector general report found Border Patrol officers didn’t follow standard procedures during device searches, mostly because those procedures weren’t clearly laid out. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft Is on Its Way Bringing Internet to 3M People in Rural America by 2022

The software company is expanding its work into 10 more U.S. states. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

CBP’s Facial Biometrics Program Has Caught 26 Alleged Imposters

Since its rollout this summer, the biometrics program is finding more success at land borders than airports. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Remote Workers Can Get a Cushy Apartment, Free Office Space, and $10,000

The city wants to attract digital nomads. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

VA’s $16B E-Health Record Overhaul Is Already $350M Over Budget

Just six months into the project, VA’s most important modernization effort is getting more expensive. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Intel Community Is Developing a More Spy-Proof Room

The intelligence community’s research arm is upgrading SCIF security to protect against threats from personal devices and sensors. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

NSA Finalizes $6.7B in Classified Tech Contracts

After two years, the NSA finished rebidding its “Groundbreaker” program and is beginning work on a secretive new set of communications contracts. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Hack the Marine Corps Nets 150 Computer Bugs and $150,000 in Rewards

This marks the sixth Defense Department bug bounty. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Darpa Wants to Find Botnets Before They Attack

The defense agency awarded a contract to develop a tool that scours the internet for dormant online armies. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recognition Boarding

Airport officials rolled out the system expecting to increase security and decrease boarding times. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Five Eyes Intel Alliance Urges Big Tech to Help Break Encrypted Messages

The U.S. and four major allies warn new legislation might be necessary to ensure law enforcement can access communications. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

FBI Looking for Tech to Foil Fingerprint Obliteration

The FBI wants artificial intelligence tools that can ID people with burnt, cut or otherwise altered fingerprints. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

DC Airport First in Nation to Catch Suspected Imposter Using Facial Biometrics

After three days of operation, Washington Dulles International Airport’s biometric cameras identified a man allegedly attempting to use someone else’s passport to enter the U.S. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

CBP Rolls Out Facial Recognition at Silicon Valley Airport

International travel at the Mineta San José International Airport has doubled in recent years. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Get Ready for a Massive Government Spending Spree

A combination of factors will see federal agencies trying to spend as much as 40 percent of their budgets in the final two months of the fiscal year. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

The Pentagon Wants to Bring Mind-Controlled Tech to Troops

The Defense Department’s research arm is working on a project that connects human operators’ brains to the systems they’re controlling—and vice versa. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Future Quantum Computers Already Threatening Today’s Data

Large-scale quantum computing could be just five years away. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

CIA Official: Cloud Is More Secure Than Old Tech, Less 'Soul-Crushing'

Is cloud more secure than traditional government data centers? The CIA seems to think so. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

NSA ‘Systematically Moving’ All Its Data to the Cloud

The National Security Agency is all-in on cloud. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

US Intel Community Wants to Use DNA to Store Exabytes of Data

The IC is exploring whether polymers could be the future of data storage. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Another Defense Agency to Tap CIA's Commercial Cloud

Documents indicate the Army’s National Ground Intelligence Agency aims to provision secret and top secret cloud services from the Amazon-developed C2S Cloud. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 5 years ago

Pentagon Wants Cloud Secure Enough to Hold Nuclear Secrets

The Pentagon’s JEDI cloud will be designed to store the government’s most sensitive classified information, including nuclear secrets. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 6 years ago

With No Permanent Leadership, VA Forges Ahead on $16B Health Records Sys

The Veterans Affairs Department will press on with its electronic health records contract without a permanent secretary or chief information officer. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 6 years ago

The Energy Department Is Investing $30M in Quantum Research

Is quantum computing the next big thing? Energy thinks it may be. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 6 years ago

The IRS System Processing Your Taxes Is Almost 60 Years Old

The IRS’ Individual Master File may be the oldest IT system in government and its failure could disrupt tax processing nationwide. | Continue reading


@nextgov.com | 6 years ago

IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware

Congress and watchdogs have been warning the IRS to upgrade its systems for years. | Continue reading


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