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1 week ago | 
govciomedia.com | Sarah Sybert |Vlad McNeally
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming defense operations, with agencies like DISA and DIU leading efforts to integrate AI at scale across missions. Defense leaders are accelerating AI, powered by high-quality data, to enhance national security, boost innovation and shape the future defense strategy. Learn more about:How defense leaders are improving data governance, accessibility and quality to enable AI-driven decision-making.
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2 weeks ago | 
govciomedia.com | Sarah Sybert
The recent announcements surrounding over $2 trillion in strategic deals between the United States, Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Qatar signify more than economic cooperation. They represent a turning point in global affairs – a declaration that artificial intelligence (AI) has now fully emerged as a formal instrument of national and international power.
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1 month ago | 
govciomedia.com | Sarah Sybert
Hybrid cloud and agentic AI have the potential to drive efficiency, scalability and mission success across federal government. Agentic AI is growing in the public sector as government agencies fast-track IT transformation to boost efficiency and counter global threats, experts said during the Nutanix .NEXT conference in Washington, D.C., Wednesday.
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1 month ago | 
govciomedia.com | Sarah Sybert
DOD faces growing pressure to overcome legacy barriers and adopt agile, risk-based strategies exemplified in DOD’s new SWIFT program. The Defense Department is shifting its cybersecurity and data management posture away from rigid compliance toward risk-based decision-making, which leaders say is essential for modern warfare and digital readiness. “How do you actually target [data] and serve that up to the user or the consumer or the stakeholder appropriately?
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1 month ago | 
govciomedia.com | Sarah Sybert
Federal government is leaning into a digital future, modernizing customer and employee platforms to streamline federal services, improve user experience and boost efficiency. Agencies are integrating AI, building out an open-source ecosystem and bolstering digital security as they transform operations.
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1 month ago | 
govciomedia.com | Sarah Sybert
Executive order pushes shift from paper to digital payments as Treasury targets waste, fraud and inefficiency across federal agencies. Treasury officials believe they can prevent trillions of dollars in improper payments by modernizing agency systems, digitizing payments and utilizing a new database that improves data sharing across government. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that since 2003, federal agencies have made roughly $2.8 trillion in improper payments.
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2 months ago | 
govciomedia.com | Sarah Sybert
Cybersecurity leaders cite growing priorities around security by design and zero trust to protect critical infrastructure, they said at CyberScape Summit in Bethesda, Maryland, Thursday. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Secure by Design framework calls for baking security into technology products from the beginning, rather than adding security on as an afterthought. The concept ties closely with current efforts around zero trust. “What do we see nation-state actors doing?
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2 months ago | 
govciomedia.com | Sarah Sybert
Federal agencies see artificial intelligence as a key technology in thwarting cyber adversaries, officials said during the CyberScape Summit in Bethesda, Maryland, Thursday. This comes amid the Office of Management and Budget’s two new AI memos released Friday that outline how government should approach AI acquisition and accelerate AI innovation. “[AI] makes [adversaries] lies more believable,” said Cynthia Kaiser, deputy assistant director at FBI Cyber, at the event.
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2 months ago | 
govciomedia.com | Nikki Henderson |Sarah Sybert
Federal agencies are developing joint efforts with government partners and industry to share new cybersecurity frameworks, tools and defense strategies to stay ahead of growing digital threats, cyber leaders explained at the 2025 CyberScape Summit in Bethesda, Maryland Thursday. NIST’s CSF 2.0 Leverages PartnershipsNIST launched its Cybersecurity Framework Version 2.0 in Feb. 2024.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
govciomedia.com | Sarah Sybert
Rising trends in cyber fraud require electronic health record companies to implement stronger security measures. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is seeing a rise in fraudulent electronic prescribing trends for controlled substances and is calling on electronic health record companies to implement tech solutions to combat the emerging threat.
