3 security questions agencies should answer before Gold Eagle lands
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ByJustin Herman,
Federal Civilian Government Director, Cognition
August 4, 2026 01:40 PM ET
COMMENTARY | The agencies that build that capability will define what good looks like for the next decade.
Ask anyone on an agency security team what the worst mornings look like. A critical advisory lands, and somewhere a foreign adversary is already pointing an AI model at the same flaw, working through it faster than any human team could. Nobody knows yet whether it touches production. The one engineer who actually understands the old codebase is on leave. The clock starts anyway.
This summer's policy moves are built to tighten that gap. In June, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on artificial intelligence innovation and security. It directs the Treasury Department, working with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency and the Office of the National Cyber Director, to...
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