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In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General, 12 senators warned that the deployment of facial biometrics at every U.S. airport could create “one of the largest federal surveillance databases overnight without authorization from Congress.”

Ben Colman, co-founder and CEO of Reality Defender; Sabrina Palme, CEO of Palqee Technologies Ltd; Kalev Leetaru, founder of the GDELT Project; and moderator Ed Fraser from Channel 4 News speak during a panel at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. Camille Tuutti

Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-OK) speaks during a markup meeting with the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill on September 20, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Bice introduced legislation Nov. 20 that would create a tracking system for federal grants to reduce duplication and fraud. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

The public release of the online form follows a delayed and glitchy version released last year.

The Office of Management and Budget led an effort to assess USDS — even whether it should exist — during the twilight days of the Trump administration. With another Trump White House incoming, the question of what’s next for the government’s digital SWAT team looms.

U.S. Senator-elect John Curtis (R-UT) arrives for the Senate Republican leadership elections at the U.S. Capitol on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Curtis introduced legislation Nov. 21 that would require the FCC to create an AI tool for identifying scams. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

The holidays are a great time to give the gift of recognition to those doers in the federal technology community who’ve gone above and beyond in 2024.

Software reuse is a decades-old concept that’s finding new relevance today for public sector organizations pursuing digital transformation (DX). While the notion of re-purposing existing software in use by other agencies is an enduring best practice in government, many IT teams still overlook that option even though such opportunities are becoming more plentiful and promising. Let’s examine how software reuse is increasingly valuable in building robust applications that extend new capabilities to some of the government’s most complex and mission-critical use cases.

Artificial general intelligence — smarter-than-human AI capable of performing virtually all tasks — risks spiraling out of human control, MIT professor and Future of Life Institute President Max Tegmark said.

Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. nabbed a contract worth up to $13.3 million to provide a “presentation layer” for the Traffic Coordination System for Space.