FinCEN eyes contractors to help draft its own regulations
The Treasury Department’s financial crimes enforcement arm is seeking outside help to meet anti-money laundering and stablecoin mandates. The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is exploring whether it should bring in contractors to help draft regulatory documents. FinCEN is responsible for collecting and analyzing information about financial transactions to combat domestic and international crimes like […]
Workday bets big on federal HR overhaul
Workday’s federal chief Lynn Martin tells us that policy, technology and administration priorities are aligning at the right time for the human capital software company. For just over two years, Lynn Martin has been preparing Workday’s public sector business for what she calls a “pivotal” moment in the federal market. “In my 20-some years of experience […]
Sales, tech and talent leadership moves across the market
One of the industry’s largest tech integrators makes a key hire to lead its manufacturing operations, which have grown amid a longer-term product content push. Agile Defense Shawn Tyrie has joined the Enlightenment Capital-owned digital transformation company as chief revenue officer, a role he brings two decades of defense and national security experience to. Tyrie will […]
Former head of ‘Pentagon’s think tank’ joins Anthropic
The strategy expert calls adaptation to AI a “civilizational” challenge. The United States has “a tight time window to adapt” to the “civilizational” challenge of AI, according to a former senior Pentagon thinker who’s joining Anthropic as a “strategist-in-residence.” James Baker led the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment—often referred to as the “Pentagon’s Think Tank”—from 2015 to 2025, when it […]
WT 360: NextGov/FCW’s Edward Graham on the world’s AI and robotics leadership race
Edward Graham, managing editor at NextGov/FCW, jumps in to take us through how a new White House memo on artificial intelligence security helps illuminate the competition between the U.S. and China. Once again, the U.S. government is accusing China of being among several foreign entities that are looking to steal proprietary information on artificial intelligence […]