Oversight and program management gaps slowing VA’s benefits processing system modernization, OIG says

11/08/2026 22:45 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[Efforts to modernize a Department of Veterans Affairs system that supports the processing of veterans’ benefits claims have been hampered by “insufficient oversight and weak…

Trump admin delays TANF data sharing plan opposed by blue states

11/08/2026 21:43 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[The Trump administration pushed the effective date for a proposal allowing the Administration for Children and Families to share Temporary Assistance for Needy Families —…

How OneGov is changing CACI's contractor role

11/08/2026 21:00 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[CACI International counts as business partners many of the same brand name technology companies that the U.S. government wants to have more direct relationships with,…

DHS wraps up Oracle's Cumulus cloud contract

11/08/2026 19:32 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department has entered into the second out of four planned awards under Cumulus, a centralized mechanism for acquiring commercial cloud computing services…

The government wants your help solving today’s biggest challenges

11/08/2026 18:36 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[A few years ago, I tried to help a team of astronauts survive a Martian dust storm. Fortunately, nobody was actually in danger. I was…

Federal agencies quietly joined health data superhighway governing council

10/08/2026 21:37 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[Officials with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Social Security Administration and Indian Health Service were added to the governing council for a federal initiative designed…

Senate’s short-term funding bill provides temporary extensions for TMF, cyber data-sharing law

10/08/2026 21:25 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[The Senate approved a temporary funding measure this weekend that would provide a short-term extension for both the Technology Modernization Fund and a key cybersecurity…

Senate Finance panel’s top Dem proposes excise tax on new data centers

10/08/2026 21:12 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[A new draft white paper from a top Senate Democrat proposes tax code updates that would shift incentives for data center construction. The paper, released…

Federal systems increasingly likely to face accidental AI breach after Hugging Face, experts say

10/08/2026 15:19 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[LAS VEGAS — An OpenAI agent tasked with finding software flaws escaped its testing environment, hacked into Hugging Face and spent days moving through the…

Cloudflare to seek DOD IL4 authorization after new FedRAMP, GovRAMP designations

10/08/2026 13:00 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[Cloudflare announced Monday it plans to seek Department of Defense Impact Level 4 authorization to bring a platform that can store and process controlled unclassified…

Voting machine researchers say federal work abruptly ended after Trump ally pushed back on their findings

09/08/2026 10:00 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[LAS VEGAS — After spending roughly six weeks analyzing Dominion voting systems used in Puerto Rico’s 2024 elections, Mojave Research came back to the Trump…

Senate confirms Adam Cassady to run State Department cyberspace bureau

07/08/2026 19:24 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[The Senate on Friday confirmed Adam Cassady as the new U.S. ambassador for cyber and digital policy, filling a high-profile role that had been vacant…

New ‘Water Watch Center’ launched to help small utilities stop cyberattacks

07/08/2026 18:19 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[LAS VEGAS — A new program is seeking to assist water providers around the country as multiple states grapple with possible Iran-linked cyber intrusions against…

Tech Bills of the Week: Deterring AI distillation; Taxing AI developers; and more

07/08/2026 18:03 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[Deterring AI distillation Lawmakers are looking to address the threat of AI model distillation by adversaries, with a new bill introduced by Sen. Bill Hagerty,…

As AI models break free, White House works with firms on secret safety measures

07/08/2026 16:52 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[No one is saying, officially, what was decided when top frontier AI labs—Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta—met with White House officials on Tuesday to discuss voluntary…