Technology

Steve Babitch, head of the General Services Administration’s artificial intelligence portfolio within its Technology Transformation Service, has outlined areas that the agency's new AI community of practice plans to tackle, Federal Times reported Thursday.

Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., a ranking member of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, has introduced a bill that intends to accelerate innovation and mitigate climate change.

David Bernhardt, secretary at the Department of the Interior, has ordered DOI bureaus and offices to temporarily stop using its fleet of unmanned aircraft systems in operations that are not considered emergencies.

The House Homeland Security Committee passed two bills that would authorize the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to subpoena internet service providers and protect the head of CISA from political whims, Nextgov reported Wednesday.

Brig. Gen. William Hartman of U.S. Cyber Command and David Imbordino of the National Security Agency discussed how Cybercom and NSA help the U.S. government protect U.S. elections from foreign interference.

Air Force Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a two-time Wash100 award recipient, said the Department of Defense needs to accelerate its modernization and reform efforts to maintain its deterrence advantage, DoD News reported Wednesday.

Stuart McGuigan, chief information officer of the State Department, said he is prioritizing efforts to leverage machine learning and implement a data-driven approach to information technology optimization across the department’s individual offices, FCW reported Tuesday.

NASA has renamed an ocean observation satellite that will operate to carry out high-precision altimetry measurements through 2030.

Paul Beckman, chief information security officer at the Department of Homeland Security, said agencies must adopt multifactor authentication to prevent unauthorized access, Cyberscoop reported Tuesday. Beckman said at the Zero Trust Security Summit that he uses a second factor as an additional layer of security for email account logins. Second factor examples include authentication text messages.

The U.K. government has implemented a 35 percent cap on technologies crucial for 5G connectivity that came from designated “high-risk” vendors such as Huawei, CNBC reported Tuesday.