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The US and China are Meeting This Week to Talk AI Safety

The Pentagon launches new initiatives for a to reciprocity and digital modernization and the USDS touts its impact over the past year.

More than 60 companies join CISA’s pledge to be Secure by Design And, Chuck Schumer says an AI roadmap is coming soon from the Senate AI working group.

Today on the Daily Scoop podcast from the Scoop News group, a supercomputer sandbox for testing federal AI and evaluating the nation's cyber security posture.

With all of the critical cyberattacks executed through the software supply chain in recent years, you’re sure to have heard about SBOMs, or software bills of materials, which are essentially ingredients lists of the components that make up a piece of software. The Biden administration in its 2021 cybersecurity executive order introduced new guidance for how federal agencies should request SBOMs from vendors when purchasing software so they can better understand what it’s made of and protect against attacks down the supply chain. The Department of Homeland Security, through its Science and Technology Directorate, is advancing federal work on SBOMs, namely through a program led by its Silicon Valley Innovation Program. In partnership with CISA, the Silicon Valley Innovation Program in 2023 awarded funding to a cohort of startups to broadly promote the use of SBOMs by developing two core software modules—a multi-format SBOM translator and a software component identifier translator—to be delivered as open-source libraries which, in turn, will be integrated with their SBOM enabled commercial products. Just recently, that cohort delivered the first of those two tools. Joining the Daily Scoop to discuss the need for SBOMs broadly, the cohort’s progress and what’s next are Melissa Oh, managing director of DHS’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program, and Anil John, SVIP technical manager.

The IRS says it could run out of money to support modernization And, U.S. Cyber Command adds to its top brass The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.

NASA Pushes Back on Gao’s Cyber Recommendations for Spacecraft and trade groups say CISA's incident reporting requirements go too far.

Today on the Daily Scoop podcast from the scoop news group data stolen in the change health care attack likely included us service members and the White House encourages agencies to turn towards skilled based hiring for cyber and tech jobs. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon.

President Biden’s executive order on AI, issued last October, set federal agencies on path to consider the adoption of generative AI in a safe and secure manner. While some agencies have expressed caution in using genAI, the EO discourages agencies from imposing broad general bans or blocks on agency use of generative AI and instead encourages them, with appropriate safeguards in place, to provide their personnel and programs with access to secure and reliable generative AI capabilities for the purposes of experimentation and routine tasks that carry a low risk of impacting Americans’ rights. Still, the hype around generative AI, inside and outside government, is high, and there’s a propensity to see it as a panacea to fix all problems. But that’s not the case, according to Alison Smith, director of generative AI for Booz Allen Hamilton. Smith joins the Daily Scoop Podcast to explain how agencies should weigh whether generative AI is a good fit for a problem and what the federal generative AI landscape looks like today.

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