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 […]

FedRAMP 20x: What Vendors Need to Know About the Next Evolution of Federal Cloud Security

Venable LLP recently hosted an insightful session on FedRAMP 20x – Launching Phase II. Presenting to a packed room, Pete Waterman, FedRAMP Director at the Government Services Administration, explained key changes in the 15-year old Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) that was initiated to facilitate federal agencies’ secure cloud adoption―but which many in […]

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 […]

GAIN ‘25: The Marketing Challenge and Opportunity for GovCon Marketers

Twelve months can make quite a difference! If you attended last year’s GAIN conference for marketing and communications professionals in the government contracting space, you may have noticed a distinct focus on percolating questions around artificial intelligence (AI) such as: How can marketing professionals leverage AI to do their jobs? To what extent will their […]

AI and the Future of American Defense Leadership

Last week’s POLITICO AI and Tech Summit included a panel discussion on the Future of Defense Innovation. This session offered a timely discussion with Ryan Tseng, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Shield AI, and Emil Michael, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and Acting Head of Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), that explored the […]

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 […]

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Going Gov & Beyond with Audrey Decker, Defense One

Every reporter interviewed on Gov & Beyond has told us about the challenges they are facing covering the federal government under the Trump 2.0 administration, where change is constant and often unpredictable. Arguably, those challenges are amplified for reporters who cover the Defense Department, due to the sheer size of the bureaucracy and the broad […]