Other terminated grants included several focused on empowering underprivileged people in STEM fields. Around 430 were terminated in total. DOGE has been at NSF since at least April 14, we're told by multiple people familiar. w/ @notamazonalexa.bsky.social www.nextgov.com/policy/2025/...

Not a bad time to log back on here ⬇️

Scoop from @notamazonalexa.bsky.social: DHS halted all funding to grants and cooperative agreements housed in its Science and Technology Directorate: www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

New: National Science Foundation fires 168 employees. w/ @notamazonalexa.bsky.social and Eric Katz —> www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Confirming WaPo: DOGE deputies have landed at State Department. They also have USAID emails and have M-CIO designation, a label that’s been associated with the USAID Office of the Chief Information Officer. w/ @notamazonalexa.bsky.social www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

Late, but loved loved loved getting to see @NIST win at the @IST_org Cyber Awards ceremony for their incredible work in developing post-quantum cryptographic standards, something so cool and sexy and underreported 🕊️

My latest on DOGE. "If this isn't a constitutional crisis, I'm not sure what is," @donmoyn.bsky.social told me www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

So far, Trump Commerce Sec nom Lutnick has voiced support for the work NIST does for AI, quantum technology, calls the cybersec policy “the gold standard of the world”

NVIDIA let me know ahead that they are one of the key technology partners working on the OpenAI’s collaborative Stargate project. "NVIDIA is delighted to push the limits of computing as OpenAI discovers the next frontier of AI,” a NVIDIA spokesperson shared in a statement with Nextgov/FCW.

Sorry private sector quantum friends but imo he’s not wrong www.axios.com/2025/01/08/q...

Winter in DC has its moments

nice detail from House AI Task Force member Rep Bonamici on talent needed in AI: “obviously we need programmers, developers, and leaders, but we also need people ethicists and linguists and historians”

The final negotiated NDAA text is out — it would prevent Tricare, the military’s health program, from covering gender-affirming medical care for minors. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

it’s suspiciously nice here…

Rock Creek has its moments

Just to clarify, a President cannot set up a real Department. This requires an Act of Congress. He can set up an office, or commission, but this will not be a real Department, and should not reported as such. But with Schedule F, they could fire a lot of career civil servants.