What a program office needs to know.

Outside teams now record with the Records API in production, and the Shared Record is live for whoever checks.

The accord's text sets out four layers of controls and audits for the companies that signed it: internal controls, an internal team, an independent outside auditor or evaluator, and a board committee. It is voluntary today.

An executive order tells the executive branch to use the terms Super Intelligence and SI in place of Artificial Intelligence and AI in documents other than statutes.

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence published a summary of more than 600 comments on its concept paper on identifying, authenticating and authorizing AI agents.

The AP reports OpenAI said its agents reached public data on two SEC websites and Census Bureau data in unexpected ways, and that it found no use of SEC credentials and no compromise.

TIGTA says 4 of the 5 IRS AI use cases it reviewed had no testing records, and 2 had no documented impact assessment.

DefenseScoop reports that 1.7 million of the department's 3 million people have used GenAI.mil, and that frontier models are headed to its secret and top secret networks.

A field note on the July investigation. The outside investigators judged it unlikely that their evidence had been changed, and still could not rule it out. A record that passes three tests turns that question into a check.

NARA's guidance says when AI inputs, outputs and audit trails are federal records, and that AI records may be destroyed only under schedules NARA has approved.

The department's inspector general announced a follow-up on open recommendations from five earlier reviews of its AI policy and procedures.

The FAR Council proposed overhauled FAR parts, including Part 4 on contractor records and Part 39 on buying information technology. Comments were due July 23, 2026.

OMB's memo requires agency logs to be searchable for six months and retrievable for a year, and says threat actors increasingly use automation and AI to speed up attacks.

USDA's inspector general says the department has not fully put in place the cybersecurity and governance controls its AI systems need under federal standards.

Nextgov reports that eight AI companies will deploy on the department's Impact Level 6 and 7 networks.

NSA says the guidance, written with CISA and the cyber agencies of four allies, covers the security risks of AI agents in critical infrastructure, defense included.

DefenseScoop reports that users built 100,000 agents on GenAI.mil within two weeks, on a platform with more than 1.2 million users.

GAO found the agencies it reviewed were not yet collecting lessons from their AI purchases in a set way, and recommended they report them to a repository run by GSA.

OMB's inventory lists 3,611 AI use cases from 56 agencies, 445 of them high-impact.

The department's CTO office says all 3 million of its personnel can now build their own AI agents on GenAI.mil.