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Lawmakers spar over DOGE as Republicans look to lock in cuts

3 days ago | nextgov.com | Natalie Alms

Republicans and Democrats traded jabs on Tuesday over the work of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency during a DOGE subcommittee hearing. “We need to lock in DOGE savings for the taxpayers, and we should also be thinking about locking in the DOGE process that has produced these savings,” said Rep.
Microsoft announces advancement in quantum error correction

1 week ago | nextgov.com | Alexandra Kelley

In its effort to achieve fault tolerant quantum computing, Microsoft on Thursday unveiled its new error-correcting code, which uses four-dimensional geometric codes to help reliably transmit information. The 4D geometric codes developed by Microsoft stabilize the physical qubits a quantum computer uses to process information.
G7 nations commit to advancing AI and quantum

1 week ago | nextgov.com | Alexandra Kelley

Nations included in the Group of 7 — or G7 — emphasized the major role artificial intelligence and quantum technologies are slated to play in the near future and issued a new set of global agreements and priorities for both technologies. Following the G7’s June 2025 meeting held in Kananaskis, Canada, leaders from the U.S., Canada, France, Japan, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom developed new commitments for both technologies that hinge on innovation and leadership through collaboration.
Estonia begins laying the keystone for a great Baltic Drone Wall

1 week ago | nextgov.com | John Breeden II

Drones are changing the nature of warfare. On the front lines in Ukraine, cheap drones that might cost a few hundred dollars are regularly being used to destroy multimillion-dollar weapons systems, armored vehicles and even individual soldiers. And that does not even take into account the hundreds of drones that Russia and Ukraine constantly launch at one another to destroy both military targets and critical infrastructure.
USTPO touts success in AI applications

1 week ago | nextgov.com | Alexandra Kelley

Despite a “rough and rocky” journey, the U.S. Patent and Trade Office is going all-in on generative artificial intelligence solutions to help improve its business operations. Officials from USPTO hosted a Tuesday discussion on the agency’s future leveraging AI for its various missions, the comments it’s looking for on its recent request for information on available automated offerings and the solutions the agency is currently developing.
OpenAI awarded $200M DOD prototype contract

1 week ago | nextgov.com | Ross Wilkers

OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to continue developing artificial intelligence prototypes for the Defense Department. The one-year other transaction agreement, announced Tuesday, will focus on how what the company calls “frontier AI” can aid in DOD’s administrative operations, health care for soldiers and families, cyber operations and the management of program and acquisition data.
IRS isn’t checking the performance of its identity proofing vendor

2 weeks ago | nextgov.com | Natalie Alms

The IRS isn’t doing quality control checks on the vendor-powered digital identity proofing that it requires taxpayers to pass in order to access many online IRS applications.
Secure by Design is just the start, CISA official says

2 weeks ago | nextgov.com | Alexandra Kelley

Incorporating a Secure by Design framework is just the start to engineering a threat-resilient digital environment, per officials helming the initiative at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Speaking during the Critical Effect cybersecurity conference in Washington, D.C., Kirk Lawrence, CISA’s program manager for its Secure by Design initiative, said that implementing its principles is akin to “locking the front door” when securing a house: a first step.
Workforce cuts could complicate IRS goal to modernize in the next two years

2 weeks ago | nextgov.com | Natalie Alms |Eric Katz

Treasury Department leadership says they will modernize the IRS within two years, but workforce cuts, contract changes and operational uncertainty for the IRS tech team could make that difficult. “It's unfortunately the case that for the last 35 years, we have been five years away from the IRS being modernized. We will not say that in the 36th year,” Michael Faulkender, acting IRS commissioner and deputy treasury secretary, said at a Thursday event at the Tax Policy Center.
Industry calls for more research funding, public-private partnerships in the National AI Strategy

2 weeks ago | nextgov.com | Alexandra Kelley

Private sector companies are asking the federal government to prioritize diverse investments across technology areas that inform the development of U.S. artificial intelligence systems, along with an effort to take the lead on standards development and to pursue industry-government partnerships.