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This Week in Government Tech Media – October 24, 2025 

Government tech publications continued to cover the government shutdown, with a focus on the effects on the jobs of government workers. We also saw quite a bit of troubling news related to cybersecurity this week. For details and links to articles, read on. The Shutdown: Week 4 This second longest government shutdown in U.S. history […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – October 17, 2025 

Here we are well into the third week of the government shutdown, and the government tech media is continuing its relentless reporting on the repercussions to the government workforce, contractors and the country as a whole. But despite the shutdown, there was a deluge of news from the annual Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – October 10, 2025 

As we entered the second week of the government shutdown, we might have expected a dearth of news for the government tech media to cover. But that wasn’t the case. Besides covering the continuing saga of the shutdown itself, reporters covered new developments emanating from Capitol Hill related to cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI) and national […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – October 3, 2025 

If you’ve been following the news reported by the government tech media over the past couple of weeks, you’ve noticed that the chaos and confusion reflected in those reports have increased. Fortunately, this week, things calmed down. I’m kidding, of course. As feared, the federal government was shut down this week as Congress continued to […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – September 26, 2025 

Two weeks ago, I was exchanging emails with an editor from a government tech publication who apologized for his lack of responsiveness by noting that he was going through the “craziest” news week of the year. This past week, the same editor again apologized for his slow responses, noting that this week was even crazier […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – September 19, 2025 

We saw a lot of reporting from Capitol Hill this week in the government tech media, as well as a sizable amount of coverage of industry events where high-ranking government officials discussed the need for advanced space-based technology. Get caught up on the trending news in my roundup below: Tech News from the Hill The […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – September 12, 2025

This week, it was impossible to ignore the flood of news emanating from the 16th Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C. Cybersecurity leaders from across industry and the federal government gathered at the event, generating plenty of headlines in the process. You can find details on many of those stories and more below in […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – September 5, 2025

If you read this blog regularly, you know that issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) frequently hog the headlines in government tech media outlets.While that trend held true to an extent this week, there were a number of stories not specifically focused on AI that generated a buzz. That included a number of articles on […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – August 22, 2025

As usual, we saw a flood of stories focused on government artificial intelligence (AI) this week. We also noticed what seemed like a renewed focus on Defense cybersecurity and several pieces on attempts to improve government online interactions. You can find details and links below in my weekly roundup of trending stories: The Pros and […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – August 15, 2025

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 […]