FedTech Magazine

Somewhere right now, an artificial intelligence agent is reading a vulnerability disclosure that went public an hour ago, writing exploit code for it and testing that code against a live target — without a human in the loop. This is not a far-off forecast. In late 2025, Anthropic disclosed that a Chinese state-sponsored group had jailbroken the company’s Claude Code tool and bui...

In the technology industry, we tend to measure our success by what we build rather than by what we make possible. It is a reasonable but limiting habit, because the systems we deliver are only as valuable as the outcomes they create for the people who use them. It is worth returning to a basic question: Why does our industry exist at all? Not to serve itself; we exist to serve c...

Ask a simple question — “Where does federal data live?” — and you get a complicated answer. Truthfully, it lives everywhere. Government agencies have built and maintained their own on-premises data centers for decades, protecting siloed data through every security means available. As maintaining that legacy storage, compute and network became more expensive, cloud-first policies...

The Department of Health and Human Services has moved nearly 5,000 contracts into a new shared-services organization in less than a year, part of a deliberate effort to streamline one of the federal government's largest and most fragmented acquisition portfolios. The initiative, called the Procurement Alignment and Collaboration Task Force (PACT) is the work of Jennifer Johnson,...

Walk into a modern enterprise security operations center today, and you'll discover just how inexpensive 65-inch monitors are: The walls are covered with them showing dashboards from security information and event management (SIEM) consoles, extended detection and response (XDR) endpoint security platforms, firewall intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and data loss protection (DL...