Madison Alder is a reporter for FedScoop in Washington, D.C. She covers government technology, focusing on artificial intelligence, federal contracting, and broader issues involving health, law, and data. Madison's work has been featured in Bloomberg Law, WKOW-ABC 27, DefenseScoop, CyberScoop, and NewsBreak.
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By: Madison Alder
The new AI-chatbot is intended to provide Americans with one place for all of their needs from the government. The model reportedly leverages Gemini and Grok.
By: Madison Alder, Sophie Will
Farmer would replace the Trump administration's former top IT official, Greg Barbaccia, who left the office in August.
None of the 24 agencies the Government Accountability Office audited had fully addressed selected post-quantum cryptography practices.
The chatbot comes as an expansion of the Office of Personnel Management's work to modernize access to public federal workforce data. Integration with America.gov is planned.
The human capital agency again updated terms for its USAJobs application programming interface to reflect that the data is public and expressly allow analysis.
By: Madison Alder
Denice Ross and her team at the Data Policy Institute are leading the charge to advocate for data policy and monitor data impacts under the Trump administration.
By: Madison Alder
The health department initially rolled out Claude to all of its workers in December 2025. Anthropic's discounted deal with the government ends Oct. 31.
By: Madison Alder
Judge Denise Cote said the government failed to provide a credible explanation for why DOGE needed access to personal information to modernize the human capital agency.
The award would continue “vital” services for six months after expiration of Anthropic's OneGov deal, per the agency. But contracting experts question the justification.
By: Madison Alder
Federal records show DOGE's role in initiating grant terminations across the National Science Foundation and indicate that the White House also flagged awards to cut.
