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06/26/2025

As the Trump administration continues its pursuit of efficiency as a top priority, Salesforce believes agentic AI can help drive toward that goal and offset agency resource constraints.

The customer relationship management cloud giant recently received a FedRAMP High accreditation for its Agentforce platform, which will allow civilian agencies handling some of the government’s most sensitive data to introduce AI agents for their workflows managed by Salesforce.

Particularly, as the Department of Government Efficiency looks to cut back on federal spending and dramatically reduce agency employee counts, it couldn’t come at a better time, according to Paul Tatum, who leads Salesforce’s Global Public Sector Solutions Engineering team. https://scoopmedia.co/45I6xrK

06/26/2025

By and large, people don’t seem to be trying to access technology created by DeepSeek — the Chinese AI firm that’s rattled leading U.S. AI companies and lawmakers — on government systems. But it has happened at least once at a federal civilian agency.

Since January, there’s been one attempt to access DeepSeek at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a spokesperson for the agency confirmed to FedScoop. The USDA successfully prevented access to the technology and has blocked DeepSeek through Microsoft’s Defender for Cloud Application service since Jan. 28, the spokesperson added. DeepSeek is banned along with other public AI sites “based on risk levels that Microsoft provides in their Defender applications,” the person said. https://scoopmedia.co/4kekJwj

06/26/2025

The FCC migrated 94% of its data centers in under 20 months. Deputy CIO Don Tweedie and Amazon Web Services Director Mickey Iqbal reveal what went into shedding technical debt and boosting agility.
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06/26/2025

The FIT Procurement Act would increase the micro-purchase and simplified acquisition thresholds and is backed by a host of tech trade groups.

The FIT Procurement Act would increase the micro-purchase and simplified acquisition thresholds and is backed by a host of tech trade groups.

06/26/2025

A little more than a year ago, the IRS had listed 68 artificial intelligence use cases in its public inventory, providing details on tools aimed at everything from improving customer service interactions to flagging potentially audit-worthy returns.

Today, that use case inventory is nowhere to be found on the Treasury Department’s website, a fact that an advisory panel to the tax agency said Wednesday could undercut IRS efforts to build public trust in how it uses new technologies. https://scoopmedia.co/3FVBzC4

06/26/2025

Federal agencies would be barred from using artificial intelligence linked to the Chinese government under bipartisan legislation introduced Wednesday by a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers.

The No Adversarial Al Act proposal from Reps. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., the chair and ranking member of the House Select Committee on China, respectively, is a companion to legislation from Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Gary Peters, D-Mich. https://scoopmedia.co/44jvIyh

06/26/2025

With FedRAMP High accreditation, Salesforce brings agentic AI to tackle government efficiency goals

The company earlier this month received a FedRAMP High accreditation for its Agentforce agentic AI platform.

06/26/2025

A movement in Congress to ban the tech in the government is complicated by the need for research exceptions and existing network blocks.

A movement in Congress to ban the tech in the government is complicated by the need for research exceptions and existing network blocks.

06/25/2025

Annual reports released to Congress from the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee and the National Taxpayer Advocate deliver new tech recommendations covering AI, modernization and more.

Annual reports released to Congress from the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee and the National Taxpayer Advocate deliver new tech recommendations covering AI, modernization and more.

06/25/2025

Acting DOD CIO Katie Arrington says rising costs, complexity and security needs are driving U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to rethink its cloud strategy by blending private and public cloud to handle growing AI data demands.
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06/25/2025

A replacement for a decades-old case management system used by the IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service is coming this summer, a move that the independent body believes will make its work with customers substantially more efficient.

TAS, which helps taxpayers resolve problems with the IRS, acknowledged myriad issues with the Taxpayer Advocate Management Information System (TAMIS) in a report released this month by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. https://scoopmedia.co/4kVgCGh

06/25/2025

The federal government could save $1 billion in productivity simply by modernizing outdated legacy HR systems across agencies, according to research that Workday put out last month.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, if you ask the company’s CEO Carl Eschenbach, who told FedScoop in an exclusive interview that there’s an appetite among some agencies in the Trump administration to move to a common, cloud-based HR system. Beyond making federal human capital workers more productive, such a platform that spans across the federal government could completely transform the way it manages, moves, optimizes and upskills personnel, Eschenbach said, emphasizing how different that conversation is from those Workday has had with federal agencies in the past. https://scoopmedia.co/40g7mV2