The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has taken the next major step toward implementing the General Services Administration’s (“GSA”) Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO), submitting to Congress 16 legislative proposals aimed at modernizing federal acquisition law and easing statutory burdens on both agencies and contractors on July 16, 2025. The
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CISA Releases AI Data Security Guidance
On May 22, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”), which sits within the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) released guidance for AI system operators regarding managing data security risks. The associated press release explains that the guidance provides “best practices for system operators to mitigate cyber risks through
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On April 3, the White House Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) released two memoranda with AI guidance and requirements for federal agencies, Memorandum M-25-21 on Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust (“OMB AI Use Memo“) and Memorandum M-25-22 on Driving Efficient Acquisition of Artificial
Continue Reading OMB Issues First Trump 2.0-Era Requirements for AI Use and Procurement by Federal AgenciesU.S. Federal and State Governments Moving Quickly to Restrict Use of DeepSeek
Last month, DeepSeek, an AI start-up based in China, grabbed headlines with claims that its latest large language AI model, DeepSeek-R1, could perform on par with more expensive and market-leading AI models despite allegedly requiring less than $6 million dollars’ worth of computing power from older and less-powerful chips. Although
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