{"id":227942,"date":"2026-03-26T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/omb-convenes-agencies-industry-to-talk-ai-for-cyber-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:35:11","slug":"omb-convenes-agencies-industry-to-talk-ai-for-cyber-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/omb-convenes-agencies-industry-to-talk-ai-for-cyber-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"OMB convenes agencies, industry to talk AI for cyber defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/03\/omb-convenes-agencies-industry-to-talk-ai-for-cyber-defense\/\">OMB convenes agencies, industry to talk AI for cyber defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/03\/omb-convenes-agencies-industry-to-talk-ai-for-cyber-defense\/\">https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/03\/omb-convenes-agencies-industry-to-talk-ai-for-cyber-defense\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-26 17:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"federalnewsnetwork.com\">federalnewsnetwork.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:smaller; color:#666666; margin-bottom: 1rem;\">OMB wants agencies to lead the way in adopting AI for cyber defense, including continuous event monitoring, forensics and incident response.<\/p>\n<p>                            Justin Doubleday<span class=\"byline_twitter\">@jdoubledayWFED<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n                                    <span class=\"Entry-date__date\">March 26, 2026<\/span> <span class=\"Entry-date__time\">5:25 pm<\/span>                                <\/p>\n<p>3 min read<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration is prioritizing ensuring the government leads on adopting artificial intelligence for cyber defense, according to a top Office of Management and Budget official.<\/p>\n<p>The use of \u201cAI-enabled cyber tools\u201d is specifically called out in the new national cybersecurity strategy. The White House\u2019s top cyber official has said the administration will launch a series of pilot programs to harden government networks under the new strategy.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials in recent weeks convened a roundtable featuring \u201crepresentatives from industry as well as agencies who are at the cutting edge of cyber defense, to talk about how we can really operationalize AI for cyber defense,\u201d Nick Polk, branch director for cybersecurity within OMB\u2019s Office of the Chief Information Officer, said during a Thursday webinar hosted by the Digital Government Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/03\/omb-convenes-agencies-industry-to-talk-ai-for-cyber-defense\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMB convenes agencies, industry to talk AI for cyber defense https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/03\/omb-convenes-agencies-industry-to-talk-ai-for-cyber-defense\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-26 17:29:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2167444878-e1743447609396.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-227942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227944,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227942\/revisions\/227944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}