1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1163+ words) U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly, Defense Logistics Agency director, visits with service members at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, in 2024. DoD / Nicholas Pilch The Defense Logistics Agency is piloting AI agents that work autonomously—bots that its CIO calls “digital…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (464+ words) Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., talks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is spearheading a congressional investigation into the July hack on open-source artificial intelligence model repository…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (701+ words) The Pentagon is shifting its cybersecurity posture to rely more on new capabilities to maintain its digital defenses rather than just bolstering its operational manpower, the department’s IT head said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington,…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (242+ words) In an announcement first shared with Nextgov/FCW, ARI said it is bringing on new staff to support the state-level AI policy advocacy branch, which will work to address frontier AI risks and threats to workers and families across all…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (171+ words) Three federal national security and intelligence agencies issued a joint advisory on Tuesday warning U.S. artificial intelligence developers that their Chinese counterparts are targeting American-made models with distillation campaigns, where one model queries a larger, more advanced model to learn from…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (277+ words) The National Security Agency is leaning into artificial intelligence tools to process mass volumes of data it collects, allowing analysts to sort through tasks and find anomalies faster, a top official said Tuesday. “I think right now we’re looking at…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (292+ words) Microsoft is giving select government customers access to an artificial intelligence system designed to find exploitable software flaws, in an effort to bring automated vulnerability hunting into its cloud environment for sensitive government work. The tool, codenamed MDASH, is available…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (248+ words) Speed is of the essence The Pentagon signals an urgent need to secure communications, data and command and control systems This cross-agency mobilization directly informs the DoW’s companion directives and it sharpens the operational stakes for national defense specifically. This…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1547+ words) In 1992, Klee Dienes was an MIT undergraduate working as a manager of the university’s web server and paying for cheeseburgers with student loans. Around him, a government research network called ARPANET was becoming the internet. One day, he demonstrated MIT’s…...