Reid Halloran

Federal agencies must appoint AI officers and inventory their AI tools annually.

California claimed most of a multibillion-dollar cloud migration funding boom in 2024 and 2025.

Federal agencies are locked into a decade-long zero trust procurement cycle.

New vendors must navigate FAR rules and dollar thresholds before their bid gets read.

States are organizing AI governance through centralized, decentralized, or hybrid models.

Patient backdoors with hands-on control pose the hardest government network threat.

Federal memos require governance before pilots scale into programs.

Government lost 17,000 tech workers in one year, crippling cybersecurity and agency operations.

Multiple overlapping frameworks govern response, and the gaps between them are where agencies fail.