{"id":174257,"date":"2026-01-02T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/ai-may-not-be-the-federal-buzzword-for-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:50:22","slug":"ai-may-not-be-the-federal-buzzword-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/ai-may-not-be-the-federal-buzzword-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"AI may not be the federal buzzword for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/reporters-notebook\/2026\/01\/ai-may-not-be-the-federal-buzzword-for-2026\/\">AI may not be the federal buzzword for 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/reporters-notebook\/2026\/01\/ai-may-not-be-the-federal-buzzword-for-2026\/\">https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/reporters-notebook\/2026\/01\/ai-may-not-be-the-federal-buzzword-for-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-02 13:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"federalnewsnetwork.com\">federalnewsnetwork.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Several federal IT and acquisition topics aside from AI were highlighted as potential buzzwords for 2026 based on discussions between former federal technology and procurement executives. <\/li>\n<li>Potential key initiatives included speed to capability models, cybersecurity maturity, human resource transformation, and governmentwide acquisition reform.<\/li>\n<li>Several panelists highlighted workforce challenges, including the IT talent exodus, the impact of return-to-office requirements, managing the exit of mid-career technologists, and whether agencies can sustain IT operating models independently or by relying on contractors.<\/li>\n<li>There was also a focus on modernizing procurement processes to simplify and streamline contracting, reforming security clearances for contractor personnel, and integrating customer experience and service delivery.<\/li>\n<li>Some buzzwords proposed for 2026 included resilience, fraud prevention, governance, value, and speed to capability models. <\/li>\n<li>Overall, experts debated whether 2026 will shift focus from cost and efficiency of 2025, to more critical topics like workforce, governance, resilience, and value for federal missions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI may not be the federal buzzword for 2026 https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/reporters-notebook\/2026\/01\/ai-may-not-be-the-federal-buzzword-for-2026\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-02 13:38:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/government-AI.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174259,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174257\/revisions\/174259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}