The General Services Administration (GSA) was in the news this week, mostly around artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives but also its Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) to streamline cloud security authorizations across the government. Also, AI continues to grab the attention of reporters covering the Defense tech space. Here’s my weekly roundup of the […]
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2025 edition of the Professional Services Council’s Service Contractor magazine. We are all living in an unpredictable government contracting environment. With fluid agency priorities, staff reductions and budget uncertainties, it’s a challenging time for those who have centered their business on federal service. In the words of Dwight […]
The federal government took great strides this week to make generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools and associated technologies cheaply available to agency users. We also saw multiple news reports from a couple of major industry conferences. For details, see our roundup below: ChatGPT: I’d Buy That for a Dollar Last week, the Government Accountability Office […]
The recent news from Instagram has the potential to be a game-changer for B2B social media and SEO strategies. On July 10, Instagram continued its roll out of a long-tested feature which allows, as Instagram states, “search engines to index photos and videos from public reels and posts that were uploaded or posted from January […]
Why should this week be any different? As we’ve seen over the past several months, AI continues to grab more headlines than any other topic in the government media space. This week, the headlines picked up from last week’s announcement of the White House AI action plan. Our roundup of trending news follows: Federal AI […]
As we continue through the second half of the year, our PR teams just wrapped up a heavy week of reporting by taking a super close look at program measurement, goals and where the public relations (PR) results stand compared to competitors. While an essential tool in the PR measurement toolkit, share of voice (SOV) […]
Before we jump into this week’s coverage, I wanted to strongly encourage everyone to listen to the latest episode of Gov & Beyond featuring a roundtable discussion with Frank Konkel and Natalie Alms from GovExec and Billy Mitchell and Madison Alder of Scoop News Group. I found their insights on government-focused journalism in 2025 nothing […]
If you spend any amount of time reading news related to federal government technology, you’re going to love this latest episode of “Gov & Beyond.” Our hosts Luca Pagni and Joyson Cherian bring together four editors and reporters for a spirited and extremely informative take on how they approach their jobs and the changes they’ve […]
During the RSA Conference I overheard a casual conversation between two pretty senior public relations agency professionals. The topic? Fear of discussing the value of communications with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). I giggled at first, being an almost tenured marketing executive, and then considered interrupting to explain that they have a huge opportunity to […]
Cybersecurity continued to command attention from the government tech media this week, with articles appearing across an array of publications warning of the potential negative effects of looming budget cuts. Elsewhere, we saw the spotlight shine on the General Services Administration (GSA) and its moves to reshape federal procurement. See below for our roundup of […]
