GovConJudicata Weekly Debrief (1/13–17)
This week's Weekly Debrief covers artificial intelligence barriers, Biden EO on data centers, Air Force priorities, L3's CEO letter on bureaucracy, and Biden EO on cybersecurity and space systems.
Artificial Intelligence
"Although the federal government has made strides in its work to implement artificial intelligence governance policies over the past several years, agencies are still experiencing challenges, a new Stanford report said."
"Outgoing US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to open up federal lands for data center development. The move will make government-owned land available to developers for lease and require agencies to make efforts to improve transmission infrastructure to those developments."
Defense
"Among the resumes of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for key Pentagon posts, aspiring Air Force secretary Troy Meink’s stands out. As a Defense Department insider with deep acquisition and technology-development experience, Meink would bring to the job a government background unlike that of Trump’s other DOD nominees. And his specialization in space could upend the priorities of a service typically dominated by Air Force interests."
"The CEO of one of the world's biggest defense contractors, L3Harris Technologies, told President-elect Donald Trump's government efficiency panel in a letter on Wednesday that the Pentagon's huge contracting system is too slow and bureaucratic to meet threats posed by China and Iran and needs to be reformed."
Space
"One of the final space-related acts of the outgoing Biden administration is an executive order that directs cybersecurity reviews of ground systems and contract requirements for civil space systems."
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