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Agency watchdogs warned lawmakers that their centralized fraud analytics capacity could end next year without congressional action.

The government’s revolving fund to help agencies jumpstart IT modernization and cybersecurity projects is at a “critical juncture,” in terms of funding and congressional support, according to the General Services Administration, which administers the fund.

The director of Login.gov says that the federally managed identity service is on track to finally meet an important standard for digital identity verification.

The agency is also expanding the scope of tax situations the tool will cover.

Agencies using the government-created service will have the option to incorporate new face-matching capabilities or stick with existing offerings.

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, governments that use its guidance to offer attribute validation services may have to rely less often on commercial data for identity.

Meet the Department of Labor's CAIO Mangala Kuppa. She's focused in large part on AI safety and making sure the tech tools promote workers' well being.

Policymakers are examining how the advent of artificial intelligence could create new privacy risks around the federal agency purchase and use of personal information from data brokers.

A new Department of Treasury strategy calls on those delivering government programs to make them easier to access.

The pending order will focus heavily on federal cyber standards and emerging tech threats, but remains in limbo amid the presidential election.