It was a shorter work week due to the Juneteenth holiday, but that didn’t stop the government tech media from continuing its focus on pressing issues like cybersecurity and acquisition reform. When there’s change, there’s usually some pushback – and we’re seeing that pushback reported in many cases in which the White House moved quickly […]
I’m back with our latest roundup of the stories that captured the most attention within the government technology media space this week. As is often the case, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence were the trending topics, with new guidance around cybersecurity from the White House and lots of buzz around AI at a large government tech […]
Happy Friday, folks! I’m stepping in for my W2 Communications colleague, Brad Bass, for this week’s roundup, in which budget cuts, artificial intelligence (AI), zero trust initiatives and drone attacks are dominating the news cycle. Brad will be back next week. This week’s trending news includes: CISA Faces Massive Cuts on Budget, Positions – and […]
The big stories in the government tech media this week focused on changes to how federal agencies acquire technology services and products, in both defense and civilian agencies. We also saw new developments related to organizational changes at the Pentagon and the General Services Administration (GSA). Read more on these and other trending news below: […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a constant theme running through many of these weekly posts, even before the change in administrations and the deluge of executive orders and regulations focused on the technology. That continued this week, when news related to AI broke at all levels of government. In a somewhat new wrinkle, there was […]
The trending stories this week in government technology media focused on congressional concerns about planned cuts to federal spending related to cybersecurity and quantum technology. We also saw reports from media outlets at this week’s AFCEA TechNet Cyber 2025 conference in Baltimore. Here are the highlights: CISA Takes to The Hill The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure […]
This week, we looked outside of the Beltway to San Francisco, where the RSA Conference (RSAC) event took place. Federal government cybersecurity initiatives were the focus at a number of sessions and panel discussions at the event, and the tech media was there to report on those. We also saw more action related to acquisition […]
In this edition of “This Week in Government Tech Media,” we look at how changes to federal technology acquisition are being implemented and how those changes are being felt by those at federal agencies, government contractors and state/local governments: Acquisition Transition Following the recent executive order (EO) on acquisition reform, agencies across government are moving […]
White House executive orders (EOs) continue to command the attention of government technology reporters. This week, we saw a couple of orders focused on federal procurement – receiving largely positive media coverage. We also saw a continuation of the less positive coverage of the EO targeting the former leader of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security […]
It’s been another week of executive orders, policy memos and other developments in the areas of acquisition, artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. Here are a few trends that caught our eyes this week in the government tech media: White House Guidance on AI Early this week, the Trump administration took the next steps toward implementing […]
