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5 days ago | 
meritalk.com | Weslan Hansen
The Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) would lose more than 1,000 employees under the Trump administration’s fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget proposal – totaling about 29 percent of the agency’s current workforce – new White House documents show.
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1 week ago | 
cdn.meritalk.com | Weslan Hansen
Amid the government-wide push to modernize legacy systems, the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is closing in on transiting from its print-heavy systems to a digital-first structured data workflow that makes Federal documents available across multiple platforms.
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1 week ago | 
cdn.meritalk.com | Weslan Hansen
As cyber threats grow more advanced and pervasive, lawmakers and industry leaders are considering ways to shift cybersecurity burdens from victims to software providers, while at the same time deepening public-private partnerships to counter national security risks.
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1 week ago | 
meritalk.com | Weslan Hansen
The next high-powered supercomputer is coming to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) under a new contract between the Department of Energy (DoE), Dell Technologies, and NVIDIA. DoE’s NERSC, which is housed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., said its new supercomputer – coined “Doudna” – will be operational in 2026 and is designed to deliver more than 10 times the performance of its predecessor, named Perlmutter, DoE announced on May 30.
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1 week ago | 
meritalk.com | Weslan Hansen
President Donald Trump left the door open today for senior White House advisor Elon Musk to continue advising the president and working with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as a private citizen as Musk’s official role as a special government employee came to an end.
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1 week ago | 
meritalk.com | Weslan Hansen
The Trump administration has cancelled funding for a Department of Labor (DoL) grant program that was used to fund modernization efforts for states’ unemployment insurance (UI) systems that were overwhelmed with claims during the coronavirus pandemic. The funding was made available to states under the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act which allocated an initial $800 million out of $2 billion to fund unemployment insurance (UI) systems modernization efforts.
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1 week ago | 
meritalk.com | Weslan Hansen
As the uptake in artificial intelligence tech adoption and cryptocurrencies rapidly reshape the financial sector, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero urged regulators to “keep pace” or risk falling behind and exposing the most vulnerable to harm.
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1 week ago | 
meritalk.com | Weslan Hansen
Bipartisan legislation that would establish an interagency committee to harmonize cybersecurity regulations is getting a second attempt at being signed into law after two senators reintroduced the bill on May 22. Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and James Lankford, R-Okla., first introduced the Streamlining Federal Cybersecurity Regulations Act last July. However, it failed to receive a full floor vote before the start of the new Congress in January.
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1 week ago | 
meritalk.com | Weslan Hansen
President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders on May 23 that aim to accelerate nuclear energy development by four-fold over current production levels in the next 25 years with the goal of supporting artificial intelligence technology innovation. The orders will bolster the building of nuclear reactors set to serve as “reliable, high-density power sources” that aren’t susceptible to foreign threats or power grid failures, according to the White House orders.
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2 weeks ago | 
meritalk.com | Weslan Hansen
A divided Supreme Court on May 22 granted an emergency request from the Trump administration to block a lower court ruling that prohibited President Donald Trump from firing Federal officials from two independent oversight boards without cause. The unsigned order was handed down on a vote of 6-3, with the court’s more liberal justices in dissent.
