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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Like their counterparts in the mainstream media, reporters in the government tech space early this week covered the implications of the Trump administration’s megabill outlining plans for funding the government going forward. There was much in the bill that touched on technology, and the coverage focused on areas where the bill would promote government tech […]
As a heat dome enveloped the nation’s capital for much of the week, the heat also went up in the Middle East – with repercussions that may be felt by government agencies under increasing threats of cyber retaliation from Iran. The government tech media reported on those developments this week. There also seemed to be […]
If you closely follow the government technology space like I do, you are most likely extremely familiar with MeriTalk and the work done by John Curran and Grace Dille. MeriTalk has proved an indispensable chronicler of breaking news and analysis related to government tech initiatives, policies and strategy. In this episode of “Gov & Beyond,” […]
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 […]
