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Newly obtained FOIA records reveal details about the level of White House and DOGE involvement in terminating grants last year at the National Science Foundation. And, the General Services Administration has secured an expanded OneGov agreement with Anthropic for its Claude models. Hear more on the @DailyScoopPod: youtube.com/watch?v=kGU90kP6…

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. youtube.com/watch?v=lHFZ4ZEr… Read more by @madialder: fedscoop.com/records-show-wh…

Trump’s AI use to inform military operations questioned by House duo scoopmedia.co/3U9iyDf via @wilkinsonLmedia

Treasury, IRS use of third-party ID verification under fire from top Senate Finance, Banking Dems scoopmedia.co/3WfUGyn via @MattBracken

Understaffed CFPB’s security program has foundational ‘weaknesses,’ OIG says scoopmedia.co/4ieKzCt via @MattBracken

In letters sent Friday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., asked the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to rescind those policy changes, which limit the ability of bank examiners to deliver supervisory warnings and pursue certain enforcement actions. The Fed’s Updated Statement of Supervisory Operating Principles, published last month, said that supervisory staff can only issue enforcement actions to financial institutions based on “unsafe or unsound” practices if they believe those practices “create an abnormal probability of abnormal harm to the financial condition of the banking organization.” scoopmedia.co/4e4v51x

Federal agencies are under pressure to modernize business systems, but legacy technology and workforce constraints continue to slow progress. New research compares federal and commercial organizations to uncover where modernization gaps remain and what could help agencies move faster. scoopmedia.co/4ieB3iJ

The two sets of documents were obtained by Democracy Forward, which has frequently challenged the Trump administration in federal court, and provide NSF communications involving DOGE affiliate Zachary Terrell from April and May of 2025. That correspondence suggests Terrell recommended terminating grants from congressionally mandated programs, used a list of grants provided by the Florida governor’s office, and, notably, indicated that the White House had provided a list of grants to cut. scoopmedia.co/4ySnryG

USAi may no longer be free, but a General Services Administration official has a pitch for agencies on the fence about adoption: GSA will save you months in acquisition time and handle the “boring” stuff. Launched in August 2025 as a no-cost tool for federal agencies to experiment with AI models, USAi pricing was introduced last month. Per the GSA’s website, agencies will now pay a “platform fee plus passthrough usage costs” for USAi. scoopmedia.co/3URyomc

With the end of an already-extended deal in sight, the General Services Administration has secured an expanded OneGov agreement with Anthropic for its Claude models. GSA said Tuesday that federal agencies will have access to a 40% discount on token-based usage across Claude models with consumption-based pricing and no minimum purchase required. scoopmedia.co/4kgXc1e

DualChem is the first benchmark developed under a partnership between Scale and the recently renamed Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The benchmark — essentially a standardized test for AI — looks to provide a way to measure how much AI models assist a human user in chemistry scenarios and, with respect to potentially harmful outputs, where current safeguards are lacking. scoopmedia.co/3WTnPiZ

The Department of Homeland Security is planning to shut down its Acquisition Planning Forecast System at the end of the week, per a notice posted to the website Tuesday. No new DHS procurement forecasts will be entered on APFS effective Oct. 30. DHS instructed industry to visit a landing page on its site beginning Nov. 5. A member of the agency’s Office of the Chief Procurement Officer told FedScoop that the migration will occur during that downtime. In the interim, forecast opportunities will not be available to view. scoopmedia.co/4A1YphD

In a limited search of the drive, the OIG found that 116 files included physical security information, personally identifiable information, general proprietary business information or other CUI and were shared agency-wide, the redacted report said. This included Social Security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, addresses and vendor proposals with pricing information, as well as site and floor plans, with details on building vulnerabilities and security areas, it said. Read more by @ksophiewill: fedscoop.com/gsa-exposed-sen…

The Department of Homeland Security is planning to shut down its Acquisition Planning Forecast System at the end of the week, per a notice posted to the website Tuesday. No new DHS procurement forecasts will be entered on APFS effective Oct. 30. DHS instructed industry to visit a landing page on its site beginning Nov. 5. A member of the agency’s Office of the Chief Procurement Officer told FedScoop that the migration will occur during that downtime. In the interim, forecast opportunities will not be available to view. Read more by @wilkinsonLmedia: fedscoop.com/dhs-apfs-shut-d…

The General Services Administration is “not effectively” protecting controlled unclassified information in its Google Drive, exposing it to all GSA users and contractors, its Office of the Inspector General found in a report released Tuesday. In a limited search of the drive, the OIG found that 116 files included physical security information, personally identifiable information, general proprietary business information or other CUI and were shared agency-wide, the redacted report said. scoopmedia.co/3UvrOBJ

Former SSA executive Chris McDermott shares why trusted data is foundational infrastructure for modern government decision-making. Sponsored by @LexisNexisRisk fedscoop.com/closing-the-vis…

16 years of #FedTalks. One day. More than 1,000 government and technology leaders. Big conversations about how technology and people can transform government. Join us Nov. 17 at the Waldorf Astoria in DC. Reserve your spot: scoopmedia.co/4r725vl

AI hardware velocity is outrunning traditional infrastructure planning. @Broadcom Federal CTO Lewis Shepherd explains how agencies can leverage private AI, zero trust and open standards to secure the tactical edge while taming token costs. scoopmedia.co/4zhhah7

GSA exposed sensitive information to all agency users on Google Drive, OIG finds scoopmedia.co/47GYLhA via @ksophiewill