Allison Ling

Leaders from NASA, the Department of State, and the Patent and Trademark Office are driving data efforts and governance on the heels of the SolarWinds breach to further ensure security of their data.

Funding boosts in the modeling software that has been a cornerstone for federal agencies preparing and responding to natural disasters, like Hurricane Katrina, is enabling the Department of Homeland Security to better study coastal hazards in the U.S.

The U.S. public has leaned into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services heavily for health care support this past year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and in turn CMS has leaned into data to provide better aid back to the people it serves.

The General Services Administration has received $1 billion for the Technology Modernization Fund from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law last week.

The Department of Veterans Affairs' vaccination roll out is well underway, and Secretary Denis McDonough said the recent passage of the American Rescue Plan will only accelerate the process while providing additional emergency aid to retired service members.

A "whole-of-government" approach in artificial intelligence research is key to ultimately driving innovation across government services and solutions, Rep. Haley Stevens said during AI Gov Thursday.

The pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate medical research has encouraged data sharing and consolidation of practices across federal agencies to lay the groundwork for increasingly sophisticated applications of AI toward diagnostic and health care.

Federal agencies are all looking to ramp up artificial intelligence capabilities, and while it takes the right workforce, data, ethics, governance and development to successfully deploy them, federal officials also highlight the importance of collaboration.

Clare Martorana has been appointed the next federal CIO and administrator of the Office of Electronic Government at the Office of Management and Budget, according to a White House announcement.

Deep-rooted concerns with the information and communications technology (ICT) supply chain, especially after the SolarWinds software supply chain breach, left government agencies and contractors vulnerable to foreign nation-state infiltration.

The Defense Department's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is exploring a modernized approach to contracting that accelerates its rate of technological adoption and more efficiently delivers the benefits of AI capacities to the U.S. Armed Forces as a whole.

Federal health IT leaders are focusing on data, security, emerging technologies and human-centered design as some of their top priorities in the near term.